{"id":44065,"date":"2013-12-03T10:42:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T15:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/public-anger-at-vets-after-operation-potcake-cancelled"},"modified":"2013-12-05T18:45:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T23:45:01","slug":"public-anger-at-vets-after-operation-potcake-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/12\/public-anger-at-vets-after-operation-potcake-cancelled","title":{"rendered":"Public Anger At Vets After Operation Potcake Cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-44238\" title=\"potcake-smiles\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/potcake-smiles-250x187.jpg\" alt=\"Happy Potcake\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" \/>The Internet exploded with anger following the Tribune&#8217;s story about the cancellation of Operation Potcake after ojections from the local veterinary association.<\/p>\n<p>Bahamians took to Facebook, Twitter and other social media to vent their exasperation.<\/p>\n<p>The highly successful ten-day dog spay and neuter project, lauded by Prime Minister Perry Christie in its inaugural installment last year, was sunk because the Veterinary Medical Association of the Bahamas (VMAB) blocked the entry of foreign volunteers set to donate their time and skills free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the local vets said they would undertake the project themselves, but could only do so over three days and for $50 per surgery \u2013 a price the non-profit organisers say the cannot afford. At that rate, the first project would have cost more than $100,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFranklin Burrows\u201d said: \u201cThis is absolutely absurd. The local vets do not have the time nor the resources to carry out such a huge task. Very, very selfish of them to take this stance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo now the animals will continue to suffer, and these same local vets will be no better off, because the people who this programme helps cannot afford the fee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShae Shae\u201d said: \u201cWhy stop the people from helping the dogs? Especially for free \u2013 so many dogs are suffering on the streets. Not everybody that cares will be able to shell out $50 per dog for two, three, four dogs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnthony Hughes\u201d said: \u201cThis is very sad. The VMAB needs to offer their services free of charge for this event, or allow the foreign volunteers to do the charity work they\u2019ve so graciously offered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"h45937-p9\">\u201cPauline Malone\u201d asked the vets to \u201cplease put the animals FIRST and not your pockets,\u201d while \u201cSMT\u201d blamed \u201cpride and egos blinding rational decision making, AGAIN.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"mct-ai-attriblink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tribune242.com\/news\/2013\/nov\/29\/public-anger-at-vets-after-operation-potcake\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the complete article at tribune242.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Please help the animals\" href=\"http:\/\/www.change.org\/petitions\/bahamas-government-save-operation-potcake-allow-foreign-vets-entry-to-donate-their-time-and-skills-to-help-reduce-the-stray-animal-population?share_id=CJTBdpBsrP&amp;utm_campaign=signature_receipt&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=share_petition\" target=\"_blank\">SIGN THE PETITION<\/a> to allow foreign vets entry to donate their services to help the animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet exploded with anger following the Tribune&#8217;s story about the cancellation of Operation Potcake after ojections from the local veterinary association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":44238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[63,1942,163],"class_list":["post-44065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-animals","tag-selfish","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}