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| The Samoas Feasibility Visit to The Islands In January 2009, Dr. Larry Richman, Dr. Byron Mass, and Emma Clifford visited American and Western Samoa to research a possible collaborating with local NGO's and governments regarding Animal Balance assistance to reduce their ever growing dog population. Local animal protection organizations, Animal Protection Society of Apia, (Western Samoa) and the American Samoa Humane Society of Pago Pago, (American Samoa) contacted Animal Balance to create a sustainable strategy for dog management and control. Our hosts kindly showed Animal Balance evidence of the over-population problem and organized government meetings. We gathered evidence of the situation, created agreements with our new partners, and are now in the process of writing for grants to help the dogs and people of American and Western Samoa. We also assisted with 2 sterilization clinics; one on each island. We sterilized a total of 67 animals in those 2 days with the Animal Protection Society of Samoa and the American Samoa Humane Society. |
| veterinary technicians, and assistants for a 2 week campaign on the islands scheduled for Spring 2010. Click here for more information and applications! Thank you to the Alice Morgan Wright/Edith Goode Trust and the Milton & Tamar Maltz Family Foundation for sponsoring feasibility studies on the islands. |
| January 2009: Feasibility Study Report Animal Protection Society Press Release: Page 1 Page 2 |
