There will be no revolt. A handful of people in this country care, the rest will just moan a lot and then roll over and let the government do what they want with their anuses.

You can tell the dog lovers on the island, they are the ones with the smiles. We love our dogs as much as our human family and it shows. Those that leave their dogs outside in the rain and chained up are the unhappy, lonely ones, they will never know the true love of a canine. I think maybe more people around here should love an animal AS MUCH as a human. General, you seem like a very sad and lonely man.

Tourists do often take strays home, for free

Um, you missed the point General. Instead of shooting down those that care about animals, why don't YOU start campaigning for a better Bahamas for people. Because you're too lazy, that's why. It's easy to sit here and criticize. By the way, many of those that care about animals are also trying to help people and donate a lot of time, money and effort to Bahamian people.

Bizzell and Dr Lawrence, both your replies have demonstrated that you just don't "get' Operation Potcake and THIS is the real issue here. If you can't work it out from my reply above then there is no hope and the Bahamas is doomed on the animal care front. The "hoopla" Dr Lawrence, helped us get the people in the doors, yes, people who never in a million years would have got off their lazy bums to help their dogs did. Yes, you can pick up a sick or hungry dog, but what is wrong with having 100 or more foreigners and locals get together for a big event to help on a much larger scale? We all win, not just the odd dog or cat you pick up.

It's also about getting enough volunteers. The "hoopla' got us a load of volunteers that never would have given their time. Having a big program once a year gets everyone together for a common goal. It's very hard to drum up volunteers on a regular basis and many people I know had planned on giving a week of their holiday time EVERY year to help with this project in the Bahamas. Why on earth would they fly from across the world for 3 days? So now we have to rely only on the same locals who give every bit of their spare time instead of spreading the load.

Bizzell we need foreigners because you can not do the job on your own. In one breath in your letter you say you can, it the next you say you're cutting down the days to 3 because you can't handle it, Which is it?

No one suggested that we ONLY do Operation Potacke on a large scale. It is in combination with the many smaller efforts that occur every week with the Bahamian nonprofits. If you have not seen that then you're blind.

Dr Lawrence, you and the other vets have allowed yourselves to be conned by Bizzells archaic views. I'm sure you and many of your colleagues are good vets but you really, really don't understand what Operation Potcake is all about and that is such a shame.

To claim that you deserve respect just because you are a vet is also ignorant and unfair. You earn respect, you're not given it by graduating.

Surely the BHS vets would be the most impartial source here? And I'm sure animal Balance can give us an idea. I sure as hell don't want Bizzell estimating it.

Yes life is too short for negativity Dr Lawrence which is why it's so sad we the people of the Bahamas have been put in this situation by the local vets. So dry your tears because we wish you could walk in our shoes as volunteers that go into the community in our own time and see the pain and suffering as you do. It's not just about the spays and neuters, it's about the community spirit that Operation Potcake has created. It's about the massive educational drive that will make the next generation of Bahamians more caring people. It's about going into yards across the island en mass and working out ways to help the animals together with the owners. Operation Potcake brings the people together from all walks of life and and gives them all a warm fuzzy feeling about caring for animals. It's about Bahamians and foreigners standing together and working out a solution because many hands make light work.
Why would the vets possibly want to stop this wonderful momentum that has been created?? You tell me if you care about animals so much?
I know the answer and it's greed and short sightedness

You think you vets are the only ones giving up your practices??? Almost ALL the foreign vets gave up their practices for two weeks this year.
Most of the volunteers gave up their full two weeks of holiday a year, some volunteers suffered business losses to help the animals and improve the Bahamas, so don't start about being patriotic
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Not many Bahamian vets did the same may I add, one or two days here or there. You guys should be ashamed of yourselves!!
You're a lunatic if you think we believe your B.S. Bizzell.

To be honest I've never been to a country, and I've lived in several, where I have to question the vets as much as I do here. The average animal lover in the Bahamas seems to have a better idea than you lot on the whole. You don't get respect because you don't deserve it as a group and this whole fiasco just proves the point.