In Puerto Rico, time measured before and after Maria

Veterinarians adjusting to post-hurricane life face serious pet overpopulation problem.  People and their pets fill the lobby waiting their turn to be called into a back area. There, teams of veterinarians and veterinary technicians studiously probe and examine the nervous cats and dogs. They then take the animals to another room where they are sedated and prepped for surgery by one of five veterinarians operating in assembly line–like fashion. Almost as soon as one patient is sutured and sent to recovery, another is placed on the quickly sanitized table.It is only the second day of the weeklong Spayathon for Puerto Rico. The high-quality, high-volume spay-neuter initiative was held for the first time in June 2018 after Hurricane Maria, one of the worst natural disasters in the island's history, made the U.S. commonwealth's stray animal problem even worse.