Brava: Associação Bons Amigos makes a “positive assessment” of the VII mission to the island
The veterinarian of the Associação Bons Amigos, Lara Baptista, made a positive assessment today of the 7th castration campaign on the island of Brava and stressed that more than 200 visits were made for various procedures.
This official made this assessment in statements to Inforpress, at the end of the campaign that ran for four days on the island, explaining that they spent two days in Nova Sintra, one in Nossa Senhora do Monte and another in the town of Furna.
According to the same source, these are the areas with the highest number of inhabitants, and according to provisional data, it advanced that they performed about 90 castrations and that all animals underwent clinical examinations, deworming, among other necessary procedures.
In the meantime, continued the person in charge, there was still time for awareness campaigns and door-to-door deworming actions, but also about 90 animals that were already castrated, but whose owners wanted to follow up.
Still on this mission, he showed that they had captured 40 animals that were on the street and being in the areas, compared to previous years, they managed to detect that most dogs on the streets are already neutered, which he considered to be “very good” .
However, he highlighted that there is still a lot of work to be done, explaining that this is a continuous work, announcing that they will return next year, perhaps in the month of May, according to a conversation that the team had with the mayor of Brava. , showing that the municipality has always supported these activities.
Likewise, he highlighted that it is important to organize themselves so that, during the absence of the association, they can have a local team that can survey existing cases, so that as soon as they arrive on the island they have more or less a mapping and description of the cases where they are needed. interventions, whether for capture and castration of animals on the street, people who want to castrate, or other procedures on their animals.
In this part, he stressed that they still do not have a team, but the idea is to work together and have a focal point in each location that will fill in a file for data collection, and then a focal point on the whole island that will collect the general data. data and maintain contact with the association Bons Amigos, thus allowing missions and interventions on the island to be “more effective”.
