Animal rescue and advocacy in Mexico
The Yelapa Animal Project
Help us to help them
Any donations that we receive go directly to maintaining our 2 animal sanctuaries that are home to over 50 animals currently and our free/by donation animal clinic and supporting local free spay neuter campaigns.
About project
This animal project was started by a couple of women that live permanently in Yelapa, Mexico (a remote small seaside village that is 45 minutes by boat from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.) It grew out of their deep compassion, respect and love for animals. Yelapa has an estimated native population of 715 people and probably upwards of 2-3 times that number of domesticated animals plus a jungle full of wild ones and no local veterinarian (and sadly even if there were a veterinarian many local people couldn’t afford to pay one anyway.) This leaves a huge need and space to fill for the animals of Yelapa.
The Yelapa Animal Project strives to help any animal, domesticated or wild, in Yelapa that may be sick, unwanted/homeless, neglected or abused. We have created an animal sanctuary in Yelapa that houses our rescued animals and works to release them when wild, to find them new forever homes when domestic and adoptable or give them refuge in our sanctuary when not.
Service
We put great emphasis on controlling cat and dog populations by supporting free/by donation spay and neuter clinics to the Yelapa community.
This, of course, depends on raising the necessary funds to pay clinic rent, buy animal food, medicine and to pay our consulting veterinarians (who work at extremely reduced rates for surgeries and often consult for free to help our 100% non-profit project).
The Team
Our main volunteers, Jerry Davies (30 year vet tech extraordinaire) and Dana Hutson (passionate animal advocate, rescuer and emergency vet tech trainee) consult with our vets, caretake and run the animal sanctuarys, coordinate and administrate the animal clinic, rescue animals and raise funds needed to operate this non-profit project. Sounds like a big job and it is, however, we can’t close our eyes to an animal’s need or suffering. Compassion and love always finds a way💗
Adoption, Foster or Volunteer
If you would like to adopt an animal, are available to foster or would like to come and volunteer with us
