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We have heard the heartbreaking news that our beautiful friend and colleague Angela Glover has passed away after trying to save her dogs from the tsunami in Tonga. Many of us in the SPAW community knew Angela, and we feel her loss immensely. Angela touched so many lives both human and animal through the selfless work she did for the Tonga Animal Welfare Society, which she co-founded, and in volunteering during SPAW clinics in the Kingdom. Words cannot adequately express…

Another year with closed borders has nearly passed us by. Though we can’t run clinics, SPAW has been keeping busy. Through social media we’ve been able to give remote assistance to many animals needing care in the South Pacific. Our Lead Vet Dr Geoff Neal has been on our Facebook page doing remote consultations with people and our partners in islands all over the South Pacific. Geoff has helped animals including dogs, cats, pigs, cows, horses and even a bat!…

In this series, we talk with the people giving their time to help animals in need. Today we chat to SPAW’s Lead Vet and Board Chair Dr Geoff Neal about the work he has been doing for SPAW over the last eight years. Geoff studied at Massey University in Palmerston North and worked as a mixed animal vet in the Manawatu and King Country before heading over to the UK to work.  For the last 13 years, he has been…

It is difficult watching the population of street dogs and cats increasing due to the suspension of de-sexing operations on Vava’u, Tonga, say Tracey Meikle, Bodine (Bo) Cameron and Brandie Cass from Host-a-Vet. Host-a-Vet in a NGO set up by Vava’u expats in 2017 to work with SPAW to deliver their clinics on the island and to be a source of assistance for animals when there are no vets on the island. SPAW ran two clinics in 2011 and 2012…