A Placitas-based nonprofit that offers free veterinary treatments to animals across New Mexico’s Pueblos may be out of supplies soon after thieves stole a trailer full of medical necessities from the Route 66 Casino parking lot earlier this week.

“Helping Paws Across Borders” has been a part of the Navajo Nation for 18 years, caring for animals.

“We’re here on the Navajo Nation to spay and neuter for free,” Angie Cherry, founder and CEO of Helping Paws Across Borders, told KOB 4 News. “This is the first time anything of this magnitude has happened.”

Saturday was the kickoff to a six-day clinic in the Navajo Nation. But the theft compromised their ability to offer six days of provisions.

“We are a nonprofit,” Cherry said. “We rely on donations, grant money and stuff. So it’s really sad for everybody that our stuff was just taken away from us like that. Nobody cared. So we’re very sad about that.”

According to KOB 4 News, the trailer had $20,000 worth of medical supplies “from an ultrasound machine to medicine for animals.”

The nonprofit is turning to the community for support and has posted a GoFundMe page to help them in their efforts.

“We have gotten some donations just to get us through for a couple of days, but we’re almost out of those,” Cherry said. “Something that we’re desperately in need of is catheters, IV catheters.”

As for the stolen supplies, Cherry hopes thieves will figure out what they have taken and return it or leave it where someone can find it and return it to where it belongs by contacting them at Helping Paws Across Borders.

“Have a heart, think of what we’re doing,” Cherry told KOB 4 News. “All the medicine and all the things that could help these animals is in the back of that trailer.”

Cherry is confident the community will continue to support their efforts.

“That’s the one thing that makes us all happy is that our community is supporting us and that what we’re doing matters,” she said.