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Isla Animals, our story, our mission. Help us help them!
As you may know, in April 2023 the local govt of Isla Mujeres evicted us, reclaiming the space they had given us back in 2015.
The location has remained empty for over 18 months, and just like that 24 years of labor, rescuing, spaying and neutering, and helping the local community and their dogs, was erased as if it had been nothing. While they may have forgotten you had to go to their beautiful and worldwide recognized beaches of Isla Mujeres with sticks due to the huge population of stray and aggressive animals, we have NOT forgotten!
Without the space, we were forced to take a step back, rethink and regroup. And that’s how ISLA ANIMALS OASIS was born. Mundaca was our old place, Oasis is the future. A safe place for the forgotten animals, the ones with no voice, the ones most vulnerable.
Isla Animals Oasis is not located on Isla Mujeres, as we could no longer afford to pay rent and bills for an inadequate space on this increasignly popular destination. It has gotten so expensive, that it would have forced us to work with a tiny portion of the dogs we normally have (sometimes over 80 at once!), receiving visitors in unbealivable small places, and bothering our neighbors with barking puppies.
We do continue working on Isla Mujeres with the street animals (100% abandoned as do remember… we had been there for 24 years!).
But Isla Animals Oasis is the future. We have outdoor space, separated areas for the animals, our own surgery room, we can do spay and neuter campaigns on site, we can safely isolate contagious diseases. This was the dream we were never allowed to dream!
If you have good memories of your experience with Isla Animals, please do consider lending us a PAW… Here we have a Go Fund Me campaign: https://gofund.me/7fe42686
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For news and updates about Isla Animals’ relocation and future plans, please check out our blog:
https://www.islaanimals.org/blog/
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One Time & Monthly Donations
Isla Animals is a 501C3 organization founded in 2001. We are 100% funded by donations and the generosity of unpaid volunteers. We have rescued over 6,000+ dogs since 2001 and are dedicated to decreasing the unwanted pet population on Isla Mujeres through on-going spay/neuter programs, education, vaccinations, and adoption.
Only with your help can this wonderful work continue.
Please consider a monthly donation, it’s easy to set up and Isla Animals has a pressing need for a budget that they can depend on. To set up a monthly donation, click the button below, enter your desired donation amount and check the “Make this recurring” box on the Paypal screen. You can also make a secure one-time donation by leaving the boxed unchecked.
Donate Supplies
We are always in need of basic supplies such as flea and tick medication & shampoo, collars, leashes, food, bowls, toys, etc. Medical supplies are in great demand as well as they lower our operating costs greatly thereby increasing the number of animals we can reach. See the list below for medical and non medical supplies we can use.
Be sure to visit our Wish List on Amazon.com
Medical Supplies Needed:
- Syringes 1 cc & 3 cc (SLIP lock & LUER lock)
- Surgical blades – #10
- Surgical gloves- STERILE- sizes 6 to 8
- The suture that we use has to be the best that we can get. These animals go back to the streets or into dirt, backyards where there is rarely any follow up care. If there is a problem with infection, these animals will suffer, so we are asking for the best suture material,
0-0 PDS, absorbable
2-O PDS, absorbable
3-O PDS, absorbable
The above sutures need a 1/2 curved cutting surgical suture needle
Reels of the same type of suture are also great, we can swag on our own needles. - Surgical Instruments
- Spay hooks, all sizes
- Sterile drape, also anything made out of drape material that we can cut and sterilize
- Betadine hand scrub
- Chlorohexadine
- Betadine
- Sterile gauze
- IV sets – microdrip and macrodrip
- IV catheters – 20 guage, 22 guage, 24 guage
- Needles 18 – 25 gauge
- Triple antibiotic eye ointment
- Antibiotics: Injectable long acting amoxycillin, cephalexin, ketoconazole, doxycycline 100 ml. tabs
- Cerenia
Non Medical Supplies Needed:
- Leashes and collars
- Food dishes
- Animal Vitamins – especially puppy vitamins or supplemental gels
- Eye drops
- Ear cleaner
- Ear Mite & Ear Fungus medicine
- Fungal cream
- Anti-biotic creams like neosporin
- Oster or Wahl Clippers
- Clipper blades #40
- Tweezers
- Scissors
- Cotton balls
- Duct tape and tarps
- Cages – hard or soft for transporting animals as carry on
- Non-sterile gauze
- Walmart or Costco gift cards so we can buy the things we need that are not listed here
You can drop off supply donations at our shelter
in the Hacienda Mundaca Palapa in La Gloria,
every day from 10.30am – 4pm.