AHPPA (Asociación Humanitaria para la Protección Animal) Archives

Nov 29, 2021 Global Dog Campaign Case Studies: Kabul, Afghanistan; Chennai, India; Heredia, Costa Rica

Posted at 09:56h In AHPPA (Asociación Humanitaria para la Protección Animal), Animal Well-being, Animals, Articles, BCI (Blue Cross of India), Companion Animals, Global Dog Campaign, Mayhew Afghanistan, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Kabul, AfghanistanAfghanistan recently experienced a change in government, leading to chaotic scenes at Kabul airport as countries evacuated their personnel and individual Afghan citizens sought to leave the country. Dogs were also caught up in this chaos as some animal advocates sought, mostly unsuccessfully, to...

Collage of photos of Brianna and Lulu | Photo credits: AHPPA

Jun 15, 2021 Brianna and Lulu: A Girl and her Dog

Posted at 17:15h In AHPPA (Asociación Humanitaria para la Protección Animal), Articles, Companion Animals, Tales of WellBeing, Well-being - By Kathleen Rowan

The lead photographs for this story show Brianna, 7 years old, with the family’s new dog, Lulu, adopted from the local shelter, Asociacion Humanitaria Para la Proteccion Animal de Costa Rica (AHPPA). According to Brianna’s mother, “Brianna is the faithful lover and defender of animals...

May 15, 2020 The Journey to Home

Posted at 05:03h In AHPPA (Asociación Humanitaria para la Protección Animal), Tales of WellBeing - By Kathleen Rowan

Often, when one hears about animal rescues they aren’t told the complete chain of events that has to occur for the rescue to be successful. The following story allows us to follow the rescue journey of one dog through her eyes and through those of...

Jul 30, 2019 AHPPA’s Most Valuable Client

Posted at 08:00h In AHPPA (Asociación Humanitaria para la Protección Animal), Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan and Kathleen Rowan

A recent sterilization clinic held in Guapiles by our partner organization served a remarkable woman – 96-year old Ana Julia Espinoza. She walked three kilometers with her three cats to have them sterilized.For the past five years, our partner organization, the Costa Rican shelter Asociacion...

Feb 14, 2019 A Valentine Message From Valentina

Posted at 08:55h In AHPPA (Asociación Humanitaria para la Protección Animal), Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan and Kathleen Rowan

[caption id="attachment_1667" align="alignleft" width="368"] "Brave Valentina is our CIO (Chief Inspiration Officer) because her fight to survive and the joy of her new beginning touch us deeply and make us think about what is possible for desperate animals around the world."[/caption]No matter how bleak things...

Oct 26, 2018 Changing Human-Dog Interactions In Costa Rica

Posted at 10:45h In AHPPA (Asociación Humanitaria para la Protección Animal), Articles, Companion Animals - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Human-dog interactions have been changing around the world over the past fifty or more years. In North America in the 1960s for example, a significant proportion of pet dogs were allowed to roam freely and there were estimates that maybe 25% of the dogs on...

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