One woman’s seemingly endless battle to save innocent animals from vicious acts of cruelty or instant death by electrocution

 

Isla Mujeres, November 18, 2010 – The

life of cats and dogs on this idyllic island is bleak.  The local government has

a despicable solution–population control by electrocution!  Her organization

has become one of hope; dedicating itself to rescuing and caring for these

abused and discarded animals through spay and neuter clinics, fostering, and

adopting.

Alison has spent ten years working with and supporting

other rescue groups in the Yucatan. While continually addressing the big picture

she has re-housed over four thousand animals, placing them with individuals and

rescue groups in the US and Canada.  In 2005 she received the Doris Day Animal

Kindred Spirit Award and was invited to the first ‘Forum on Small Animal

Over-population’ in Mexico City.

Isla Animal’s programs are run totally on

donations. It’s Alison’s goal to educate pet owners and provide them with free

services and basic supplies, such as food, flea and tick medication, shampoo,

collars, leashes and medical supplies.  On a typical day she has thirty to forty

dogs at her house; most of them are sick and scared from a life on the streets –

and these are the strong ones!  Islanders drop the dogs off or tie them to her

gate, or tourists find them by the side of the road.  It takes time and love to

get these animals ready for a good home but Alison is prepared to take care of

each and every one until she can send them to a better place.  Isla Mujeres is a

tourist destination so the animals are considered unsightly and are eliminated

in an effort to create a more pristine vacation destination.  Alison is sure

that if tourists knew what was truly going on they would want to do something

about it.

Isla Animals desperately needs additional

funding so that they may continue their wonderful work.   Donations can be made

via check, payable to Alison Sawyer, 1750 30th St., #197, Boulder, CO 80301,

with ‘Isla Mujeres Animals’ noted on the check, or directly through PayPal. 

Please visit their website at www.islaanimals.org

for more information on this incredible organization and how to alleviate the

plight of these desperately mistreated animals.

Alison Sawyer Current is also the author of an

intriguing novel, No Urn For The Ashes (Bayfire Press Publishing), and

generously donates the proceeds from her book sales to further the care of her

extended feline and canine family.