Overview
- The city’s animal protection institute says its 17 million peso budget sets aside about 3 million for sterilization, supplies and field response.
- Officials estimate 130,000 to 150,000 dogs and cats live without a home across urban and rural Morelia.
- Curbing growth would take about 50,000 spay and neuter surgeries each year, according to the institute.
- The institute completed about 2,500 procedures last year, which signals a large gap in capacity.
- The World Health Organization puts the global stray population near 200 million, and INEGI cites very large national totals in Mexico.