I have seen few stray animals in El Valle, mainly due to the efforts of spaypanama.org. Yesterday and today, their sterilization road show came to town and set up at the primary school, a yearly event since at least 2012. Locals brought their pet dogs and cats – about 300 all told.

It took about an hour for each animal to go through the procedure. From what I saw and heard, few of them were stressed (other than being dopey from the anaesthetic). It was impressively orderly. Here is how it went down.