I agree with your Maths; when Proud Paws was going full blast we did 1,00-1,500 per year. I believe that the best way forward is a continuous project with all clinics participating with a target of 60 pets per week or 3,000 per year.

No matter which way you slice it it will cost an average of $50.00 per surgery. Is it not better for the Bahamian Veterinary profession to deal with the need for low cost spays and neuters rather than depending on outsiders?

What an ill-informed rant!! Read the rest of my post and get a true picture of what has been proposed!

They WILL do it for free but need the rest of you to pay for the materials used!!

For your information Bahamian vets have been doing pro bono work and organizing and participating in free and low cost spay and neuter programs for the past 40 years! The reason that the stray and roaming dog problem is still with us relates more to ineffective canine control that a lack of spay and neuter programs. Op Pot did 2,200 spays/neuters which was a wonderful effort. Proud Paws has done over 7,000 spays/neuters over the past 10 years using only Bahamian vets andBahamian surgical assistants funded by Bahamian residents;no outside vets were required.

The solution to the stray and roaming dog problem is a week by week sustained and persistent spay and neuter project that is done by Bahamian vets in a Bahamian clinics with the help of Bahamian staff and assisted by Bahamian volunteers. If 3,000 animals could be spayed and neutered every year, which is an attainable goal if all Nassau clinics participate, as they have said they will, we will see a gradual decline in stray and roaming dogs.
This is the only long term, sustainable way to deal with the problem. Local vets have agreed to this provided their expenses are paid.

Regarding the $50.00 cost per dog this is only enough to cover the cost of materials used. Spays in the USA cost $300-500.00. In 1970 the cost of a dog spay in The Bahamas was $35.00.........that's makes the present day cost of materials seem extremely low.

Protectionist fools ....give me a friggin break!!

You need to investigate more carefully before posting such an ill formed and inaccurate rant!

Wrong! All Bahamian vets were asking for was to be re-imbursed for the materials materials they use in the surgeries!!! Yes I expect to see many of my vet friends on the other side of the Rainbow Bridge!, Hope to see you too!,

Wrong! The first free spay/neuter project I did was in Freeport in1971. At the time spays cost $30.00. The first client who presented his dog for a free spay was a multimillionaire who owned most of Bahamas Terrace!!! Ask the architect who lives on Skyline Drive why he thought Proud Paws should spay his two purebred dogs for free!,
Please read my post below

Please read my post below and keep politics out of the discussion!

From the same place as we get the $50.00 to purchase the materials the foreign vet uses !!! Please read my post below

Bahamian Vets not at all insecure! A spay costs $50.00 in materials whether a Bahamian or a foreign vet does the surgery! Please rad my post below