Success Stories
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Chicharron's Story
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In April 2007, the HSTJ Street Clinic [Itchy-Scratchy Clinic] Team went to a wretchedly poor area
of Tijuana to check out the neighborhood to see if it might be possible to hold a street clinic in
that area. They found an old public building that they could use and where they could pitch the
HSTJ tents. Roaming around the building were six street dogs, all with worms, mange and eye
infections. The team did not intend to hold a clinic that day, only to evaluate the site. However,
they decided to treat as many of the strays around the building that they could catch since
they had the supply boxes in the truck. In just a few minutes and after treating only a few of
the strays, there was a line of people with eighty [80] animals, none of which had ever
received any type of medical care. Although short of staff, the two HSTJ volunteers stayed all
day and treated the eighty animals.
Most of the animals were pets but some where abandoned street animals brought by
sympathetic residents hoping to be able to help the animals. Chicharron was one of the
abandoned street dogs. He was brought to the clinic by a teenage boy accompanied by two
other children. When the children found out that we could treat Chicharron for worms,
diarrhea, mange and eye infections, one of the kids went home to get their mother.
Their mother came to the clinic and after talking with her children, decided to adopt Chicharron.
He received two follow up visits at the subsequent Itchy-Scratchy clinics and was then brought
to the HSTJ sterilization clinic a few months later and was neutered. He is a happy little guy
now and living with a caring family.As a result of the family's contact with HSTJ, they have
taken a keen interest in teaching the neighbors about how to properly care for dogs and cats
and the importance of having pets spayed and neutered at the HSTJ free and low cost clinics.
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