Spay & Neuter street dogs of Huanchaco, Peru

"One morning before the clinic started, we went to a local store to get coffee and we saw sweet Lola limp by. We immediately approached her and upon closer inspection not only did she have a bad limp but her skin was in rough shape and her teeth were almost completely worn down from scratching her skin. We were able to find her caretaker and he gave us permission to spay her at the clinic and have our team take a look at her leg. Once we realized the surgery was far more invasive than what the local vets could do - we wanted to work with our contacts on the ground in Huanchaco to get her healthy and fly her back to the states for surgery and eventual adoption.

It took the efforts of several people, the kind generosity of some Global Giving donors, many friends, and another great nonprofit, Homeward Trails, but eventually we were able to get Lola healthy enough to fly and prepare all of the necessary paperwork and vaccines to get her into the United States. One of the Perros Project's partners, Ursula, brought Lima from Huanchaco to Trujillo, where she flew on to  Lima. One of us met her in Lima and then flew with her back to Washington DC.

Holly Gill, one of the surgeons at the Perros Project's 2015 clinic donated Lola's entire surgery to amputate her leg. After a good recovery, a childhood friend and her husband adopted Lola, making her a part of their family. These days Lola is enjoying her new life, her new caretakers, and her other animal companions."