At the Bearfoot Travelers Inn, the owners were telling us of people here who don’t care about their domestic animals. They were telling us story’s of people that don’t spay or neuter’s their domestic animals. Then leave the puppys and kittens in the rainforest to starve to death.

I looked it up and sure enough, there are no laws here that state that you must spay or neuter them.

There is a Humane Society, but only one that I could find is located in Guaynabo. . Which in turn makes for a lot of wild dogs and wild cats.

What did they do about all the stray animals? Check this out . Animal Control Solutions (government hired private company ) was not taking them to shelters and were instead killing them by throwing them off bridges, burying them alive, and inhumane injection. In some months they killed over 900 dogs and cats. There are approximately 100,000 stray dogs and cats on the island of Pureto Rico.

Apparently there is a beach called dead dog beach where teenagers go to run over live puppy’s and kill them with arrows or machetes.

It is legal to have cockfights here in PR and they show the fights on television. However Puerto Rico does have some laws against the cruelty to animals but it is almost never enforced. Animal activists are pushing for new laws that would impose larger fines, and increase jail time.

There is something you can do help, sign this petition and let the government know how you feel

Over on Banos Ave. there is a section that smells of cat piss so bad that it will nearly knock you over. It is almost unbearable. It’s really sad to see most dogs and cats wandering around are very thin and malnourished. I have noticed people leaving dog and cat food out side to feed the animals.

The owners of the guesthouse were also telling us that they adopt out dogs to people in the states ,and that there are many other programs like this here in PR.

• Animal rights information
• IloveDogs.com
• Care2
• New York Times
• Animal Protectors Network
• Island Dog