Papá Gato Animal Welfare Bocas Del Toro

07/10/2025

We want to give a big congratulations to our friend Eve, owner of Native Chocolate! Her chocolate just won at the annual Snowchocolate Fair.

In addition to being a local born and raised , amazing chocolatier , entrepreneur and awesome mom, she is also a big supporter of Papá Gato and helping animals in need! She has donated portions of sales, bars of chocolate for raffle prizes and has personally rescued many animals!

She also sells our cool Papá Gato t shirts at her chocolate stand! So when you go to buy some of her award winning local chocolate, you can support Papá Gato and helping animals at the same time!

Well done Eve and well deserved!

06/10/2025

We had a great time at the Chili cook off at Skully's! We went strait from a clinic helping animals right to the event! With everyone’s support, we raised $1200 to go to continuing all of our animal programs!

A huge thanks to:
Skullys
Flying Pirates
The Hummingbird - Bocas
Casa Papaya
Sanddollar Resort
Banana Mama
Merén
Kawi Voyage - Bocas del Toro
Bluff Beach Jungle Spa
Cosmic Crab Resort

Also to all of our hardworking volunteers, and to every member of the Bocas community that makes this all happen.

Keep your ears open, the 4th annual Pet Halloween Costume Contest will be October 25th! Then the first week of November we will be hard at work with Vetscursions visiting with at least 10 medical professionals to work with us helping the animals of Bocas!

06/10/2025

We had a great time at the chili cookoff yesterday, we are busy getting raffle winners their prizes today and will make announcements later on how much we raised, for now we have a raffle winner we are trying to track down, if anyone knows who this is, please let us know (see photo of the ticket).

05/10/2025

Another clinic day with Dr Pedro. Today we did follow ups on previous cases of his. When he comes to Bocas we can offer special services that are not normally available in Bocas.

Dr Pedro works in Panamá City at Pethouse Panamá, we refer most people who need special diagnostics and surgery to them, a lot of Bocas dogs and cats go to Panamá City for veterinary care with them, and having a relationship with them makes follow-up care easier, we hope to see Dr Pedro continue to make visits to Bocas, and working with his clinic it allows a lot more care then normally possible in Bocas.

We strongly suggest anyone who needs veterinarian services not available in Bocas reach out to Pet House.

04/10/2025

We had a fantastic spay and neuter clinic today! We were joined by Dr Pedro from Panamá City.

Being able to do clinics on weekends rather then a weekday makes us much more accessible to the low income pet owners we want to help, you will see most of our future clinics done on Saturdays!

As always this amazing work is thanks to our fantastic volunteers, and the community support everyone provides.

03/10/2025

A big thanks to Joan at Cosmic Crab Resort and all the volunteers who came to make some mosaic pots for Papá Gato! These beautiful and functional one of a kind art pots will be available at our yearly Pet Halloween Costume contest at Space Bar, October 25th

03/10/2025

This Sunday! We will be there, for much needed fun after a busy weekend of clinics! We will be having a raffle during the cookoff to help continue paying for these clinics. We hope to see everyone there at Skully's!

21/09/2025

19/09/2025

We will be doing some spay and neuter clinics October 4th and 5th and then ending the weekend with some fun at the Chili Cookoff! We hope to see everyone there at Skully's!

18/09/2025

It's been a busy time behind the scenes here at Papá Gato! Planning a lot of big clinics! Also, a big announcement, after a lot of work we have 501c3 status in the US now, donations from people who file taxes in the US will now be able to deduct their donations from their income taxes. We have a few more things to figure out before we offer receipts for tax purposes, but before the holiday giving seasons we will have it all figured out!

There will be a few announcements coming soon, we may seem less busy no longer doing tuesday clinics, but that is far from true, we are as busy as ever!

(Kitty in photo is up for adoption!)

15/09/2025

A tiny kitten cuddles with a young adult kitten. We have so many for adopt, a personality to suit every home. Send us a message!

14/09/2025