Peanut Pet Shelter Clinic Construction Update - 05/2010 Land has been cleared. Concrete poured. Walls and Gates are up. Septic System in place. Waterfall system finished - This will be used for a water supply for the Cat Haven. Cat Haven enclosure finished. To be completed: Clinc building walls, roof and plumbing. To become a Peanut Pet Clinic Partner - Contact Us Please Donate to the Peanut Pet Shelter Clinic Project: Help us build a future for animals desperately in need. Peanut Pet Shelter has received a generous donation of land to be used for two specific purposes:   1. A spay/neuter clinic   2. A cat sanctuary Our wonderful benefactor is an ardent cat lover and like ourselves is overwhelmed with sadness for those domestic cats, that for whatever reason, lose their homes.   The Peanut Pet Shelter Cat Sanctuary will not be a traditional shelter and no cats will be kept in cages or pens. It will instead be a cat 'Haven', where cats can live a natural life whilst still enjoying the comfort of shelter, shade, freely available food and water, medical attention and of course those much needed cuddles!   The purpose of the Peanut Pet Shelter Clinic will be to provide free spay & neuter for the animals of those local people who otherwise would not be able to afford this. Many wonderful vets and associations already provide this at certain times of the year. It is intended that the Peanut Pet Shelter clinic will provide this service on a permanent basis.   In 2007, Peanut Pet Shelter was asked by the local municipality to help them, in a humane way, overcome the problem of the vast number of animals living on the streets of Playa del Carmen. The Peanut Pet Shelter clinic will enable us to take that commitment to the next level.   One female dog and her offspring can produce 67,000 dogs in 6 years   One female cat and her offspring can produce 370,000 kittens in 7 years   There is obviously much groundwork that needs to be done. We are currently in contact with other well established charities both in Mexico and U.S. who are very much in support of this project. We will keep you posted.   If you or your business would be interested in becoming a Peanut Pet Shelter Share-the-Care Partner in this fundraising project, please contact us at info@peanutpetshelter.org for more information.   Our very first Share the Care Project partner is Lori Dean, who has very generously donated the costs of her Dream Vacation win back to the Shelter.   Peanut Pet Shelter is now able to offer it's donors the benefit of 501(c)(3) tax exemption. Peanut Pet Shelter's own 501(c)(3) (Federal) application is currently in process, but through our connection with NACER, we are able to provide this tax benefit with immediate effect.   The changes will shortly appear on the 'Donate' page.   NACER (www.NACER.org) is an amazing organization that has given Peanut Pet Shelter help, support and encouragement virtually from the start and in our early days a generous NACER donation enabled us to spay & neuter all the animals that were in our care at that time.

Peanut Pet Shelter Cat Cafe Program We have been in correspondance over the past year with a lovely lady Andrea from the Cozumel Humane Society. They have been running The Cat Cafe project at many of the AI hotels on the island. The Cat Cafe idea is one originally started in Costa Rica (click on the link to read more about the great McKee Project) Mc Kee Project. Dedicated to animal welfare in Latin America We were given the wonderful opportunity in conjunction with the Iberostar here in Playa to have the first (of we hope of many more) Cat Cafe´s on this stretch of the mainland. Once we can prove the success of this venture at the Iberostar we have plans in place to open more Cat Cafes. We cannot praise Andrea too highly and the help and support that she and Monica have given us over the past months has been invaluable. We feel so fortunate to now be able to count them as very good friends. Here is the announcment that Andrea made earlier today on a Trip Advisor, she has asked us to put it here for all to see . I have recently had the pleasure of meeting Andy and Jen of the Peanut Pet Shelter in Playa Del Carmen. We receive letters from people on the mainland distraught over animals in need via the Cozumel Humane Society Website. This recently has brought us together. A very upset guest of the Iberostar Paraiso (in Playa) emailed us about two cats in need at the Iberostar in Playa. Angie (the guest) also estimated probably about 50 cats living on the property. With a whole lot of emailing and networking, we were able to get through to the management in Playa to tell them about the Cat Cafe Program and how successful it has been at the Iberostar here in Cozumel. Managers from Coz also talked to managers in Playa. Playa Iberostar actually contacted me for help over the issue. Last Wednesday, Andy, Jen and I went over and sat down with a really nice manager. I explained the program and the concept and presented many articles and pictures. The concept is basically to maintain and control the feral population, by sterilizing, vaccinating and deworming them and building Cat Cafe feeding stations and to place them in areas to draw the cats away from the hotel restaurants. It has proven to be very effective in many countries. Exterminating the cats does not work as more will always come. If you control a population, new comers are less welcome as cats are territorial. Thus, the population stays balanced and the hotel has the bonus of rodent control. The management was very, very keen and they are all for it. The cats are smart and run for their lives away from the staff and only flirt with the guests that feed them constantly. This is an enormous, enormous property. They are going to build 4 cat cafes. Angie kindly donated a substantial amount of money to Peanut to help them care for the cats to spay/neuter and release them. That very day we picked up 6 cats, and we had to only stop there as we did not bring enough kennels to get more. The management was so impressed by our ability scruff and cage the cats, they could not believe we could pick them up. Wonderful news today, is they are all spay and neutered and two cats were adopted to very good home via Peanut....I just cannot believe it and I am personally tickled pink!!! Andy and Jen will be attending the property for the next several Wednesdays gathering cats. I will join them again this Wednesday and bring one of our kennel workers Deni who is amazing with cats. I call him the Cat Man! This is really something for Andy and Jen to take on as right now they are caring for 90 dogs!!! They do not have staff like we do at our shelter and they do the best they can with the community support around them in Playa. Their goal is to build a clinic on their new property. This is the solution in the end and this is how we see it at the Coz HS. You can never build a big enough shelter. The key is, is to spay/neuter and promote it heavily. So Peanut is on the right track and I hope they can acheive this goal as something needs to be done. The stray animal situation on the mainland is not for the faint of heart. After my Sam's club visit I was tossing out beef eater treats left and right out my car windows for very appreciative pooches that have no idea where their next meal is coming from. Check out their new re-vamped website. I love the Peanut TV!!! I know times are hard with the economy, but this is an organization that could really use some help. You can also visit them and participate during the weekly dog wash. A lot of fun had by all that attends and a little something to do different while staying or visiting Playa. . I will post updates and pics of the latest Cat Cafe´s and the cats we manage to catch as one of our aims is to try and re-home some of them rather than returning them all to the Iberostar.  - Andrea Cozumel Humane Society Cat Cafes at Iberostar Paraiso Hotels - 04/08/09 Yesterday we viewed potential sites for the new Cat Cafes. Work on the Cat Cafe palapas is almost completed.   The Cafes will be placed in fairly densely vegetated areas to give the cats plenty of privacy and hiding places, however,  paths will be created to allow easy access for feeding, health checks etc and also to enable hotel guests to visit the cats.   The Iberostar Paraiso is made up of 5 hotels. Once the project is completed in these first two hotels, we will be extending it to the other 3.   We cannot praise enough the wonderful management and staff at the Iberostar Paraiso Hotels. They are so helpful and they really care . These are truly animal friendly hotels. Cat Rescue Day at the Iberostar Resort - 04/04/09 We arrived at the Iberostar today to do our wednesday cat catch and we were greeted by an Albino Peakock, so beautiful and the first one we have ever seen. We laid out our traps and waited, eventually we managed to catch two, both females although we got close to getting three others but they are still a bit wary of us and it may take a couple of weeks for them to trust us. We also met one of the hotels resident Coati Mundi, a very cute fellow who was very interested in what we were up to. Both cats were spayed today and head back to the hotel on saturday morning.

Shelter Construction Projects Additional Dog Runs Go Up Cat Pen Contruction Begins