Posted
April 26, 2024
A basketball court in Mazunte, Mexico, is bustling with activity but not from a pickup game between locals. Instead, several tables span the concrete, and on each lays an anesthetized dog undergoing surgery.
Among those holding the scalpels are two veterinary students from the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine. Madison Baumgartner and Tess Schaefer, both fourth-year DVM students, were among a group of international volunteers who performed spay and neuter surgeries on community dogs this past January.
The makeshift surgery suite didn’t come with all the familiar bells and whistles, and temperatures around them often pushed into the 90s, but it didn’t prevent them from providing care to their patients.
