Isla Mujeres, Q.R. — Isla Mujeres has laid the first stone for its first ever municipal dog shelter. On Monday, Mayor Atenea Gómez Ricalde laid the first stone for the construction of the first Animal Welfare Center in the island municipality.
“The laying of the first stone of the project represents an important step forward for the well-being and education of animal care,” she said. This new space aims to address the problem of stray wildlife and will provide free adoption, vaccination, sterilization, deworming and veterinary consultation services.
The Animal Welfare Center is being constructed on Avenida Perimetral Poniente and will be two stories high. It will have a reception area, adoption room, medical area, cages, grooming, a garden, parking for authorized personnel, public parking, administrative area and bathrooms.
The medical area will have offices, a necropsy room, a test warehouse, an operating room, a medicine warehouse and dressing rooms. Ricalde said there will also be cages and grooming for dogs and cats.
She says the new building will be a shelter full of love for homeless pets who will be provided with protection and care. The proejct also promotes the care and respect for pets.
The new Centre is being built with the help of environmentalists who have worked for many years on Isla Mujeres in favor of animals. Veterinarians and biologists Delfino Guevara Collazo, José Álvaro Bárbaro Ríos Fernández and Carlos Enrique Barranco García, as well as environmentalists Karen Sialer Pastor, Yulidiana Lázaro Huérfano, Marcela Ayala, Kayulani Creamer, Leticia Solis Bacelis and Lorena López Pineda were on hand for the first stone.
Construction cost for the Centre and a possible completion date were not provided.
