Spay/Neuter Fever!

Check out the "Neuter That Boy" video

jhayes — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:50:06 GMT

OK, you probably all remember the "Let's Get Neutered Song" - which I still think is hilarious!

Well now check out YouTube for the new "Neuter That Boy" video. Not quite as catchy a tune, but still fun and a good message. And don't worry, it's G rated. <grin>

RE: Dodgen Mobile Veterinary Clinic for sale

gretchenw — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:57:38 GMT

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Is your Dodgson unit still available?
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RE: Dodgen Mobile Veterinary Clinic for sale

gretchenw — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:57:26 GMT

Hi there,
Is your Dodgson unit still available?
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RE: Dodgen Mobile Veterinary Clinic for sale

gretchenw — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:57:13 GMT

Hi there,
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Ethiopia Pilot Program Takes Off!

scratchtopaz — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:31:50 GMT

Community dogs benefit with a little help from Best Friends

by Best Friends staff

It was early 2007 when one of Best Friends’ founders, Gregory Castle traveled to Addis Ababa at the invitation of Dr. Anteneh Roba to discuss the possibility of city involvement in saving thousands of street dogs there.

Dr. Roba, a physician living in Texas, is also a leader in animal welfare in his home country Ethiopia and is well known throughout Africa for helping animals there. He had been supporting a small courageous Ethiopian organization, the Humane Animal Protection Society, but he wanted the program to expand to help the estimated 250,000 dogs roaming the streets there. Best Friends advised that the city had to become involved, and offered to create and help finance a pilot program to show the city how effective a Trap Neuter Return program could be as a kind and humane alternative to just killing the dogs.

Gregory and Dr. Roba made a detailed and impassioned case to an influential group of city officials. Not only would this elevate the humane treatment of the dogs, it would also make a significant impact on the problem of rabies cases in the city. It had been done before in India and other countries with dramatically positive results. The group listened attentively and agreed to accept a detailed proposal.

Best Friends went to work on the details. Dr. Roba, through his foundation, the Amsale Gessesse Memorial Foundation, secured more support from Humane Society International (HSI). Negotiations with the city continued, and in March 2009 the program was under way.

Best Friends sent Chief Veterinarian, Dr. Michael Dix DVM, and a team of rapid response veterans. HSI organized a team from India led by Rahul Sehgal. Together they trained Ethiopian veterinarians and city officials to catch the dogs effectively, to spay and neuter the dogs, and handle all the logistics.

Success Breeds Success
The team stayed two weeks, when they felt that they had given the local animal medical community a solid foundation to turn the city around. But would it continue once they left?

That answer is a resounding ‘Yes’! The latest on-the-ground report from Dr. Roba is that the clinic is buzzing along, and the city is so pleased with the program that it is planning to open nine additional clinics covering all regions of Addis! In addition, the Amsale Gessesse Memorial Foundation and the city government have agreed to mutually produce brochures that will inform citizens on how to take care of their dogs: how not to chain them, proper nutrition, exercise, regular medical checkups and vaccinations!

This is just the beginning of a new era for the companion animals in Ethiopia and beyond!

To read the full report and updates on how the program is going, please go to:
Ethiopia Update, Part I
Ethiopia Update, Part II

To check out the blog from Dr. Anteneh Roba, click here

For more history on this groundbreaking program, please click here

What You Can Do!
Working together we can create a world of No More Homeless Pets! Donate today to the Best Friends Rescue Fund, which helps to support emergency situations and programs such as this Ethiopian street dog TNR effort.

images by Molly Wald, Best Friends photographer
posted by Denise LeBeau, Best Friends staff

Interested in Starting A Spay/Neuter Clinic?

scratchtopaz — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:40:27 GMT

Join Webinar from PetSmart Charities and Humane Alliance

Have you dreamed of starting a high volume s/n clinic but just don’t know how to get it started or where to find the funds?

Or do you have a program already but are struggling to do a few thousand a year and break even?

Do you feel like you are never going to get ahead of the unwanted litters being born and need to greatly increase your numbers without knocking yourself out?

Then this webinar is for you!
Join Quita Mazzina of Humane Alliance and Aimee St. Arnaud of PetSmart Charities as they walk you through the steps to opening a successful spay/neuter clinic including floor plans, budgeting, hiring and training staff, and start up funds to purchase equipment available through PetSmart Charities. Humane Alliance has helped open 47 clinics across the county using their model. PetSmart Charities has helped fund over 120 clinics in the last 3 years. You can be next!

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posted by Denise LeBeau, Best Friends staff
image of neutered kitty, Best Friends photographer

RE: We're Giving Away Spay/Neuter & They STILL Won't Come!

allypurp — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:06:22 GMT

Hi Celeste,

I'd love to respond to Amber, but don't see her email address.

Being from south Louisiniana, where very many people are Catholic (or were brought up Catholic), I have occasionally heard that some people don't want to "fix" their pets because of their religious beliefs. Worth noting, however, is that S/N assistance funds in our area do tend to be used up very quickl

(Usually, I think that people just don't care, as Amber said, and that benefits of spay/neuter and other humane education are of utmost importance.

Quite by accident, I thought of one approach to use as a was to discuss S/N iwith strict Catholics. My dad was hospitalized (in a Catholic Hospital), and I was not happy with the care he was receiving. I spoke with a Patient Care Representative who was a Nun.
Near the end of our conversation, I mentioned that I had to leave to pick up a couple of pets who had been "fixed" that day. Their was not a response from the nun at first.......then I said, "Sister, we just can't teach them pets to abstain"............

Both of us had a good laugh, and I headed to the vet's office, feeling better.

I know that the Monroe area does not have as many strict Catholics as Cajun Country does, but I thought this (my explanation to the nun) might be helpful if the situation arises.

I think that, if funds are available, offering S/N assistance only if all animals in the household are spayed or neutered would be helpful. Also, I truly believe that humane education needs to be a major focus in our push to get pets "fixed" in Louisiana and and in other states in the south.

Amber, thanks for your great work. I hope you can find strength, in spite of your frustration, to continue with your mission. We can't stop working now.....

Allyson

RE: Dodgen Mobile Veterinary Clinic for sale

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RE: Dodgen Mobile Veterinary Clinic for sale

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RE: Dodgen Mobile Veterinary Clinic for sale

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PetSmart Charities™ Pledges Record $13.8 Million For Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Efforts in Los Angeles

jhayes — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:09:03 GMT

Largest single pledge to one community for low-cost spay and neuter services

Provided courtesy of PetSmart Charities

PetSmart Charities today announced its landmark Spay Los Angeles Initiative - a record $13.8 million funding pledge for spay/neuter efforts to reduce pet overpopulation in Southern California and, ultimately, the tragedy of companion animal euthanasia. Spay Los Angeles marks the largest financial pledge ever made by PetSmart Charities toward one initiative, and is the largest-single pledge by any grant-maker or foundation in the United States specifically for spay/neuter efforts.

The multi-million dollar, five-year grant will seed the development and operation of eight high-volume, high-quality spay/neuter clinics for dogs and cats in the city and county of Los Angeles. During the five-year initiative period, the clinics are projected to spay or neuter more than 500,000 dogs and cats – thereby preventing the births of millions of puppies and kittens – and save up to 100,000 dogs and cats from euthanasia. With all eight clinics operating at full capacity during a sustained, five-year period, they could spay or neuter as many as 720,000 dogs and cats – preventing the births of countless unwanted litters, and saving millions of lives.

Despite the very best efforts of shelters in the Los Angels region, more than 87,000 dogs, cats, puppies and kittens were euthanized in the larger Los Angeles area shelters during 2007 (footnote 1).

“The best solution for reducing the steady stream of homeless companion animals into the shelter system, and ultimately reducing the tragedy of euthanasia, is to reduce the number of unwanted pets. That is achieved with spay and neuter efforts,” said PetSmart Charities Executive Director Susana Della Maddalena. “We need to increase dramatically the availability of low-cost spay/neuter services in neighborhoods where they are needed the most, such as where shelter intake is high, income is low and resources are limited.”

With the $13.8 million pledge in place, PetSmart Charities now is seeking donations to increase the investment in Los Angeles to $27.6 million during the initiative.

“Our $13.8 million pledge jumpstarts Los Angeles’ effort to fill a vital need in the reduction of animals entering, and then being euthanized, in shelters,” Della Maddalena said. “We welcome the community to join our effort in continuing to build a future where every adoptable pet in this community can find a lifelong, loving home.”

WHY LOS ANGELES, WHY NOW?
In surveying the top 20 metropolitan areas in the U.S., PetSmart Charities ranked Los Angeles No. 2 in the number of pets euthanized because of lack of space in shelters, second only to Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

Los Angeles was selected for funding based on several key factors, including its high population, high cost of living, and lack of existing, subsidized low-cost spay/neuter services. In addition:
• 16.7 percent of the Los Angeles population lives below the poverty level (vs. 13.2% in the rest of California) (footnote 2);
• Up to 50 percent of family pets in Los Angeles live in median to low-income households (footnote 3);
• The high cost of living creates a need for subsidized services; however, existing low-cost spay/neuter services, while laudable, are not adequate to meet the extreme need;
• L.A. County has the lowest number of veterinarians per capita of the nine largest counties in California (footnote 4);
• Shelter intake and euthanasia are beginning to decline, yet remain among the highest in the U.S.;
• The county and city of Los Angeles now have mandatory spay/neuter ordinances (footnote 5);
• Local philanthropic capacity and interest for this effort are strong.

WHO WILL ADMINISTER THE GRANT FUNDING?
PetSmart Charities has selected two California non-profit agencies to administer the grant funding and provide low-cost spay/neuter services for dogs and cats as part of the Spay Los Angeles Initiative:

- Clinico, Inc.: This 501 (c)(3)organization provides low-cost, high-quality spay and neuter services for dogs and cats in Los Angeles County. Clinico will operate seven of the eight clinics. The first clinic is open at 9325 Slauson Avenue in Pico Rivera. Clinico also offers services in Downey, and has secured a second full-time clinic location at the Los Angeles Animal Services Harbor Animal Care Center with an estimated opening date of November 1, 2008. Clinico will locate its remaining clinics in or adjacent to ZIP codes that are the sources of the greatest number of pets entering shelters in the city and county of Los Angeles. Services will be available to the public and rescue organizations on weekdays, evenings and weekends. With all seven of clinics in full operation, Clinico projects that it would spay or neuter 400,000 dogs and cats during the five-year initiative.

- FixNation, Inc.: This 501 (c)(3) organization operates the first feral-cat spay/neuter clinic in California and will spay or neuter free-roaming cats being sterilized under a Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) program, as well as owned cats. FixNation’s clinic at 7680 Clybourn Ave., adjacent to the Burbank airport, opened in July. Before the new clinic opened, FixNation provided services at a clinic adjacent to the L.A. City North Shelter. In conjunction with the Spay Los Angeles Initiative, FixNation’s goal is to spay or neuter 80 cats per day, five days a week, 50 weeks per year, for a total of 20,000 cats per year – and up to 100,000 in five years.

FixNation estimates that as many as 1 million feral and free-roaming cats live on the streets of Los Angeles County, and most are not sterilized. One pair of fertile cats and their offspring can produce nearly 12,000 kittens in about five years, according to SpayUSA.

“If we don’t take action now, this problem will only get worse. More cats will end up in shelters and die,” said Della Maddalena. “While many animal rescue organizations are involved in TNR efforts, very few low-cost clinics can absorb the cost of providing such a high volume of spay or neuter surgeries. FixNation’s clinic is a humane method for preventing future deaths. We believe this is a critical need that can be addressed with this unique solution and is a vital component of our $13.8 million pledge to Los Angeles.”

MANDATORY SPAY/NEUTER LEGISLATION vs. FEES FOR DOGS AND CATS
Dog and cat owners in the city and county of Los Angeles are required to spay or neuter their pets; however, the cost of such services can be prohibitive for thousands of pet parents. Spay/neuter costs in Los Angels County range from $100 to $200 for dogs and from $50 to $100 for cats. At the same time, more than 16 percent of the population lives below the poverty level, and an estimated half-million “owned” pets are not spayed or neutered.

“Because the cost of having a pet sterilized can be out of reach for many pet parents, they will be in violation of the law,” Della Maddalena added. “However, services offered by FixNation and Clinico are more affordable and make it easier for pet parents to comply with city and county laws.”

FixNation offers services for cats ranging from zero to $50, depending upon gender and whether the cat is owned or free-roaming. Clinico provides spay services for female cats for $35 and for female dogs for $55; neutering for male cats for $25 and neutering for male dogs for $45. Both clinics also accept coupons and provide other necessary services such as pain medication and, if necessary, vaccinations, fluids and antibiotics.

LOS ANGELES: LEADING THE WAY WITH A MODEL INITIATIVE
The Spay Los Angeles initiative will serve as a model program and, based upon its demonstrated results, could set the standard for similar large-scale spay/neuter efforts throughout the United States. By collecting baseline data from local shelters prior to the opening of the Spay Los Angeles clinics, PetSmart Charities plans to measure the effect of increased targeted spay/neuter on shelter intake as the clinics open and provide service to the community. Data will be submitted for review by veterinarians and animal-welfare industry experts, and the results provided to scientific journals and national publications. The goal is to extend the lifesaving impact of Spay Los Angeles by demonstrating large-scale success, and encouraging other communities to pursue their own comprehensive spay/neuter initiatives.

ASSIST SPAY LOS ANGELES – AND HELP SAVE LIVES

• To help match PetSmart Charities $13.8 pledge and achieve the goal of $27.6 million to help spay and neuter dogs and cats in Los Angeles, and save lives, donate at www.petsmartcharities.org and click on the link for Spay Los Angeles. There, contributors can also learn more details about the progress of the Spay Los Angeles Initiative and other programs PetSmart Charities supports, or has created, to save and improve the lives of animals in the U.S. and Canada. Donation information also is available by calling 1-800-745-9640.

For more information:
• Spay Los Angeles
• Spay/Neuter Fever! Community
• Spay/Neuter Resources

About PetSmart Charities
PetSmart Charities, Inc. is an independent 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization that creates and supports programs that save the lives of homeless pets, raise awareness of companion animal welfare issues, and promote healthy relationships between people and pets. Since 1994, PetSmart Charities has funded more than $70 million in grants and programs benefiting animal welfare organizations and, through its in-store pet adoption program, has helped save the lives of more than 3.4 million pets. To learn more about how PetSmart Charities is working to help find a lifelong, loving home for every pet, visit www.petsmartcharities.org or call 1-800-423-PETS.

Footnotes:
1. Based on available data provided by animal shelters in the city and county of Los Angeles/Asilomar Accords
2. United States Census Bureau
3. United States Census Bureau
4. National Institute of Health
5. The city ordinance was passed in February 2008 and takes effect October 1. It requires cats and dogs ages 4 months and older to be spayed or neutered unless exempted for a specific reason.

Posted by Jennifer Hayes, Best Friends staff
Photo credit: taken by Jennifer Hayes

Spreading Spay/Neuter Fever! : We're Giving Away Spay/Neuter & They STILL Won't Come!

Celeste — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:56:24 GMT

Here's a recent exchange between a Member and myself:

Question from Amber:
Hi,
My name is Amber Osbon and I am the Spay Neuter Director for PAWS of Northeast Louisiana. We are a non profit pet welfare group without a shelter. We choose to place our focus on s/n, adoption, fostering, ID tags, rescue, fostering, education, etc. S/N being the solution, of course. We pull pets from our local high kill shelter and get them into rescues as often as we can. Okay,..enough rambling......

Our problem is this.... WE CAN'T GET ENOUGH PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY TO S/N THEIR PETS! We have an income based spay neuter program. We obtain grants and raise money to fund it. Last year only approximately 270 pets were s/n through our program. I believe our cities, Monroe and West Monroe, census is about 150,000. People ought to be bombarding us for help, but they're not. They aren't applying because they don't care! Recently we had two billboards up and good media attention about them. The billboards read "Ouachita parish's pets are dying for you to be responsible! Spay & Neuter your pets. It stops the killing" (Click on our myspace page www.myspace.com/pawsnela and scroll down to see the newscast. Keep in mind, the guy being interviewed is the animal control officer from the high kill shelter where we pull pets from)

We need help on HOW do we get them to care? How do we change this areas culture? We can publicize that over 7,000 pets are needlessly euthanized to control the population in our parish (like a county) each year and we can say it until we're blue in the face, but if the community is insensitive to that fact and overpopulation in general, then it does no good. We've recently started PAWS 4 Learning which is humane education, but that's not enough. I've read Faith Maloney's wonderful article about giving good advice http://www.bestfriends.org/nomorehomelesspets/pdf/goodadvice.pdf and appealing to the self interest of individuals to get them to s/n for whatever reason works in their situation. I want to further this idea and really use that as our new or additional method in getting folks to s/n but I have not been able to find any ideas about how to market from that angle. No examples of slogans or campaigns. I am beyond NOT creative when it comes to things like this, but I know this is the direction we have to go to make a difference.

Sorry for rambling on, but we are desparate for help. We've plugged away at this for over 5 yrs now and it wasn't until I had a conversation with my vet the other day that I realized that I am just banging my head against the wall until the community itself changes and sees s/n in a different light.... a self benefitting light!

Please send some advice! Thanks so much for everything you do for pets and the wealth of information you provide for the world so we can try to follow suit.
Amber Osbon Spay / Neuter Director PAWS of N.E. LA
www.pawsnela.com www.myspace.com/pawsnela www.parishpets.petfinder.com

My response:
Dear Amber,

Thank you so much for your amazing letter that touches the very heart of how to most effectively spread “Spay/Neuter Fever” in your area! You are so right that the most effective approach is showing potential clients how easy it is to improve their lives if they get their pets fixed.

There is a new Best Friends online community on the Best Friends Network to promote spay/neuter, answer questions & invite discussion, called Spay/Neuter Fever! at http://network.bestfriends.org/spayneuter/news/ Please join us there and get involved! I think you’ll find the following especially helpful:

Spreading Spay/Neuter Fever blog

http://network.bestfriends.org/Blogs/Detail.aspx?b=1038

One particular post with specific marketing/promo ideas that would be perfect for your area.

I thought you might find the following FAQ that I wrote for Best Friends interesting (it hasn’t been posted yet, it’s brand new). It’s geared toward cats, but could easily be changed for male cats/dogs and explains the nastiness that goes along with having an intact male around:

Question:Do male cats really need to be neutered?

Response:It is better for a tom cat’s health, longevity and relationship with you, your neighbors and other animals to be neutered. The ideal age to have a male cat neutered is before he reaches reproductive maturity, which can occur in males as young as 5 months of age.

Male cats who are neutered instead of going through puberty are less likely to:

Urine mark (spray), which can develop into a life-long habit
Roam, possibly getting hit by a car or otherwise coming to harm
Fight, resulting in painful and expensive to treat abscesses
Contract FIV (90% of Feline Immunodeficiency Virus infected are unneutered, mature, roaming males)
Develop strong-smelling urine
Develop a greasy, infected “Stud Tail,” often with clogged pores and mats
Display aggression & dominance toward humans or other animals

Most of the above are temporary, caused by increased testosterone, which will never develop in cats who are fixed before puberty, and can take up to 30 days to alleviate after neutering for mature cats.

When it comes to having a cat neutered, time is of the essence.

Here’s a possible slogan I just thought of:

Tired of Stinky Cat (Dog) Pee? Fix Him for a $5 Fee!

For females, the yuckiness includes:

Messy, bloody heats (for a dog)
Noisy, quarrelsome heats (for a cat)
Possible post-heat pyometria infection, which means expensive vet bills
Males coming around hoping to mate and mucking up the property
She’ll eat her people out of house and home while she’s pregnant/lactating, up to or including digging in the trash, becoming food aggressive or getting on the counter if she’s not fed enough due to the caloric intake required to produce and nurse a litter (cats commonly lose ¼ of their body weight while lactating a growing litter).
Having to figure out what to do with the puppies/kittens
Having to figure out what to do if there are pregnancy/birth complications or if any of the offspring are sick or deformed

You may need to instigate a door-to-door pick-up and drop-off shuttle program if people aren’t taking initiative…ANYthing to get those critters fixed! Besides, that gives volunteers a chance to scope out the place and ask questions (what about the female pit tied up in the back, I can take her to get fixed, too...). When I worked with POPPA, we subsidized spay/neuter for about 3,000 animals from low income situations annually. We had a firm policy that we would only help if ALL of the animals in a household were fixed. Otherwise, there were some families who would only want the males fixed, or only the females, or leave a breeding pair intact.

Oh, and we posted testimonials from recipients, too (1/2 of our recipients requested help via our convenient online form). You can see some clients’ words here

Please let me know if you have any further questions after exploring the links above!

In kindness,
Celeste
Member Support
No More Homeless Pets
Best Friends Network
Best Friends Animal Society
5001 Angel Canyon
Kanab, UT 84741
435-644-3965 ext. 4829
celestec@bestfriends.org
http://network.bestfriends.org/nmhp
www.bestfriends.org
“A better world through kindness to animals.”

Large Spay/Neuter Mobile Clinic for Sale

Celeste — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:01:49 GMT

Large Spay/Neuter Mobile Clinic for Sale!

Here are the details! More info below....

Vehicle Description

2000 Matthews Specialty Spay/Neuter Mobile Surgery Unit

Built by Thomas Built Buses, a subsidiary of Freightliner, was manufactured in December 2000, and put in service in August 2001. This bus was finished by Matthews Specialty Vehicles. It has had very little use and has only 16,000 miles on it. The unit is powered by a Cummins diesel engine with an Allison automatic transmission. Comes complete with manuals for all functional components on the bus and inside the surgical facilities. A detailed list of both the vehicle components and those in the surgery is as follows:

3 RVP ceiling mounted Super Mach air conditioners.
Central alarm system.
A & E Sunchaser awning
An automatic MagneTek converter/battery charger.
GE circuit breakers
Onan quiet diesel generator.
Artistic graphics for spay/neuter.
Marley electric base heaters with built-in thermostats.
HWH hydraulic leveling system.
Outdoor halogen scene lights.
Panasonic AM/FM stereo and Audio Vox 10 disc CD changer.
Paging system with 4" all weather power horn external speaker.
Roof vents with fans.
Voyager observation system with 7" monochrome monitor. Brightness/contrast/day-night controls and volume control for internal/external speaker (audio), for back-up and view of traffic and road behind.

Inside the surgical unit, the following amenities are included:

2 Surgi-Vet anesthesia machines.
Oxygen tank racks and hook-ups.
Anesco gas evacuation system.
30 gallon electric hot water heater.
Panasonic microwave oven.
Norcold dual voltage refrigerator.
Shor-line canine scale with mounted display unit.
25 Shor-line stainless steel kennels of varying sizes.
2 Burton wall-mounted surgery lights with flexible arms.
2 Shor-line surgery tables.
Camco toilet and enclosed bathroom.
A new Bayton wet-dry central vac system.
Shor-line stainless steel tub/treatment table with stainless steel grid and stainless grid cover and hot/cold faucet.

This mobile surgery unit has been very well taken care of and is in essentially new condition. Recent years is has been in an arid climate thus no rust.

Please call if you have any questions Leslie Lynch 541-480-4700.

This vehicle is being sold as is, where is with no warranty, expressed written or implied. The seller shall not be responsible for the correct description, authenticity, genuineness, or defects herein, and makes no warranty in connection therewith. No allowance or set aside will be made on account of any incorrectness, imperfection, defect or damage. Any descriptions or representations are for identification purposes only and are not to be construed as a warranty of any type. It is the responsibility of the buyer to have thoroughly inspected the vehicle, and to have satisfied himself or herself as to the condition and value and to bid based upon that judgement solely. The seller shall and will make every reasonable effort to disclose any known defects associated with this vehicle at the buyer's request prior to the close of sale. Seller assumes no responsibility for any repairs regardless of any oral statements about the vehicle.

RE: The Association of Shelter Veterinarians veterinary medical care guidelines for spay-neuter programs

Celeste — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:44:15 GMT

Thanks so much for posting this, Jennifer!

It's interesting to have something standardized and hopefully will be a good resource for start-up programs.

I haven't read it completely through, either, I wonder if it's relaxed or overly stringent--off to take a peek...

In kindness,
Celeste Crimi
Member Support
No More Homeless Pets
Best Friends Network
Best Friends Animal Society
5001 Angel Canyon
Kanab, UT 84741
435-644-3965 ext. 4829
celestecrimi@bestfriends.org
http://network.bestfriends.org/nmhp
www.bestfriends.org

Spay/Neuter How-To & Resources : The Association of Shelter Veterinarians veterinary medical care guidelines for spay-neuter programs

jhayes — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:11:45 GMT

Here is a link to the The Association of Shelter Veterinarians veterinary medical care guidelines for spay-neuter programs.

To be honest, I haven't read it all (it's LONG and written in vet language), but it can hopefully be of some use. Happy reading. ; )

Spay/Neuter a "Big" Easier with Louisiana Grant

celeste — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:31:16 GMT

Acadiana Humane Society receives grant following Tom Cat Special.

Written by Allyson Purpera
Edited by Sue Rabeaux

Acadiana Humane Society received a $500 grant to be used for spaying and neutering as a result of 2008 Spay Day USA efforts. The grant money was donated by Carol Smallwood and it was decided to use these funds to start a new Spay/Neuter program, to assist low income people with altering their pets. The Carol Smallwood Grant was awarded to eight additional rescue groups around the country.

During Spay Day USA 2008, Acadiana Humane Society raised $80 to assist with spaying/neutering a total of 17 pets, and got the “spay/neuter” message to 40 people. During the 2008 Tom Cat Special, a Spay Day USA event, Dr. Emily Thomas of Parkway Animal Hospital neutered at least 10 male cats at a cost of $10 each.

To determine who is eligible to receive spay/neuter assistance from the Carol Smallwood Grant, we are using the same “low income” screening criteria that was used during the Tom Cat Special. Half of the cost of each spay/neuter surgery, up to $35 per pet, is being directly reimbursed to vets providing services to eligible recipients. Recipients can use their veterinarian of choice or can use Dr. Dupont in Lafayette, Louisiana. Dr. Dupont performs many spay/neuter surgeries for our rescue group and has agreed to work with us on this project.

HOW TO HELP:

Funds from the Carol Smallwood Grant will be depleted quickly. Please consider making a donation so we can continue providing spay/neuter assistance to additional low income people. We have already received a generous $200 donation from one of our loyal volunteers, which will help to spay/neuter six or seven more cats and dogs.

PayPal donations can be sent to spay@acadianahumane.org (by using this e-mail address, we know that donations are designated for our “Spay/Neuter Fund”).

You can also donate by mailing a check or money order made payable to Acadiana Humane Society. Please include a memo that specifies “Spay/Neuter Fund” to the following address:

Acadiana Humane Society / Cat Ranch
P.O. Box Drawer C
Sunset, Louisiana 70584

All donations are tax deductible. If you would like to receive a tax donation receipt in the mail, please be sure to include your name and mailing address with your donation. Thank you!

For more information:
• Acadiana Humane Society/Cat Ranch
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Spreading Spay/Neuter Fever! : How to give spay/neuter advice

Celeste — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:51:31 GMT

Check out this great article from Best Friends founder Faith Maloney! :)

RE: RE: RE: I am in shock $$$

Celeste — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:29:47 GMT

Well, I personally love your new mission! :)

I used to volunteer for a statewide spay/neuter referral and assistance program in Oregon and often times, it was just a matter of getting the word out about the low cost programs already available.

Spreading Spay/Neuter Fever! : Best Friends Blogs to Spread Spay/Neuter Fever!

Celeste — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:53:38 GMT

Check out the following for fresh ideas:

Spreading Spay/Neuter Fever! (Member Ideas)

Comic Relief! with the Neuteress of the Night

Nooters Club Apparel/Gifts & Fundraising Programs

Web Video Saves Lives!

Forms, Flyers & Fanfare (including lots of spay/neuter messaging ideas)

See you there! :)

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Celeste Crimi
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RE: RE: I am in shock $$$

isabel — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:51:00 GMT

Hi Celeste - I specifically asked both places for the cost of s/n only and that was the quote...the special goodies were extra.

My vets office has been there since I was a teenager....(many moons ago) and they aren't fancy or anything...but there are only 2 vets in our county so I guess they can charge more.

I guess I was just thinking of all of the other people in my county and others like mine who might not know about options etc.

I think I may have to hop aboard this bandwagon!!

Thank you for the links, I will definately be checking them out.

Cheryl