A look back at this wonderful Program and all of the Animals it has saved!

A look back at many years of helping animals!
This is from 2009!

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Stop the Poisoning!

These are photos of dogs that were poisoned. Plus photos of the free medical clinic!

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1st ever Animal Rights March, Parade and Rally in Guatemala City!

Mayan Families made history on Sunday January-30-2011 by being a part of the 1st ever, 1st Annual Animal Rights March and Rally in Guatemala City! We had 10 people come along with us and we joined thousands in the March and Rally! This was the first Rally and Protest of this size for Animal Rights! Numerous small groups were in attendance, however, only Mayan Families, as a group, was invited to speak up on stage! Our Indigenous Mayan representatives, Rosa, her friends and family got up on the stage that moments before had a popular Guatemalan Rock Group Playing to the adoring fans and she spoke to the crowd in Spanish to great woofs, cat calls and loud applause! Rosa, our spokesperson and Mayan Families were later interviewed on Guatemala local T.V. and by the Presna Libre Newspaper!

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Poisoned dog in Panajachel.

Yesterday afternoon we saw this poor, young dog struggling to get up out of the drainage ditch, it was frothing at the mouth.
We immediately assumed that the dog had been poisoned.
Quickly, we picked it up and put it in the back of the pick up, getting to the vet's in just a few minutes.
The vet immediately started pumping out the dog's stomach.......and by late yesterday afternoon the dog was beginning to recover.
We don't know if it will totally recover or whether it will continue with the spasms and therefore have to be put down.

This is the second poisoning in a few days. One of our own dogs got out of the yard and was poisoned. Unfortunately, we did not find her in time and she died.

It is a horrible, long , painful death.

This is one of the reasons that we do the spay and neuter clinics so that less dogs and cats will have to suffer terrible fates like this.

Oso finds a home in Guatemala!

Oso is a young female puppy...about 5 months old.
She was found on the street when she was very little and in very bad condtion.
She has lived at Mayan Families ever since. She is a lovely dog, very loving and happy.
Today she found a family! I hope that they will love her and give her a good life.
I wish all the dogs here could find a family to love them. But it is impossible and that is the reason that we are so active in encouraging people to spay and neuter their dogs and cats. It is so hard to find homes for them , good homes are even harder to find.
It costs us $20 US to spay and neuter a dog or cat.
If you would like to help, please go to www.mayanfamilies.org and go to the donate now link....
thanks!

Fluffy finds a home in Guatemala!

Little Fluffy was one of three kittens abandoned at our door a few weeks ago.    She was the littlest of the bunch and a sweet, sweet little kitty.

She has now found a new home!   But her two sisters , Champagne and Blankita are still waiting.
They are beautiful kittens and we hope that they will find a loving home soon.

We also have a very affectionate calico kitten who wants a home and just a few days ago we had five brand new kittens still with their umbilical chords attached.  We are now bottle feeding them.

Spaying and neutering is our only means to combat the overpopulation of cats and dogs and we are actively doing this every month but we need to help to  reduce the amount of unwanted animals and the terrible suffering that they endure.  Just $20 US will pay to spay or neuter a dog or cat.....if you can, please help.
 http://www.mayanfamilies.org/DonateNow
and nominate your payment for the Animal program.
Thanks!

Doña Rosa

Like many Pana women, Doña Rosa spends a lot of time torteando (making tortillas)--she has 16 very hungry canine mouths to feed. Pana has a huge population of stray dogs, and Doña Rosa is doing more than her part to solve the problem: she keeps 8 dogs in her house, and feeds and brings water to another 8 street dogs every day.  “People don’t feed the dogs here,” she says, explaining why she spends so much time and money caring for them, “but they feel hungry, thirsty, and cold, the same as us.”

Doña Rosa, who is 55 and indigenous Maya, sells tipica in the street, but tourism has been down and business has been bad.  Her husband, Don Julian, who is 67, works 3 days a week as a gardener, and sews little drawstring bags for sale in Mexico.  Money is tight, and they often can’t afford dog food, which is quite expensive here in Pana, so Doña Rosa feeds them tortilla and salt.  Even that, though, has been expensive, since the price of corn went up. 

Doña Rosa needs support to continue her work with Pana’s dogs.  She doesn’t like to ask for help from Mayan Families, she explains, because she knows that they have many other projects and people to help and operate on limited money. She told us that she would depend instead on God and patience to help her in her efforts to protect the dogs here in Pana. We’d like to find a sponsor to help Doña Rosa with the cost of dog food, so she can keep providing food for the 16 dogs that depend on her.