PLEASE SPAY AND NEUTER YOUR PETS!

SPAYING and NEUTERING is the Answer to the Overpopulation problem.  

98% of cats brought into shelters are euthanized.

10-80 cats are killed each day in the Treasure Valley.  

Altered pets are healthier, happier and live longer.  

2 unaltered cats in 8 years =2 Million offspring 

 

LOW COST SPAY AND NEUTER PROGRAMS

Please contact us and we will assist you in getting your cat's spayed or neutered at a price you can afford.  Either it will be thru our program or thru one of the other local rescue group's program.  We will work with you. We want all unaltered cats to be spayed and neutered so they and their offspring don't have to keep being killed.  Get those stray cats fixed also!

Thank you for your inquire about our low cost spay and neuter program.  This is a basic description of how we can help. Please read carefully.

We are a local cat rescue group mostly self funded. Teresa works at Orchard Animal Clinic and they provide her with awesome medical support.  Recommended ages for surgery for kittens is 5-6 months. YOU MUST MAKE THE APPOINTMENT WITH TERESA to get this reduced cost (585-9665).  DO NOT CALL THE CLINIC!

Thru Orchard, we can offer:

$35.00  for spays (females) and $25.00 neuters.   (If you have trouble with the surgery prices, let us know)

The spay and neuter procedure includes:  physical exam, anesthesia and surgery monitoring, the spay/neuter, a pain injection (most other programs do not include pain management). 


Other reduced services you can ask for during the appointment is:

-FVRCPC vaccine $4.00 Important for all cats.

-FIV/Leukemia test $17.00 Highly recommended for outdoor cats

-Leukemia vaccine $5.50 Important for all cats that go outdoors

-Rabies vaccine $5.00 Recommended

-Microchip for identification, $25 with registration included!  Normal prices are $35-$50.

The cat cannot eat after 10 p.m. the night before the surgery.  No food or water is allowed the morning of the surgery.  When you make the appointment with Teresa, it is very important that the cat is at the clinic by 8-8:30 a.m.  The clinic opens at 7:15 a.m. if you want to drop off earlier.  Then Teresa or someone from the clinic will call you after the surgery and give you a pick up time.  The cat cannot be left at the clinic overnight.

NOTE:  If the cat is sick, sneezing, eye discharge, lethargic ect, it can not have surgery until it is healthy.  If the cat has fleas, you must get rid of the fleas before they come in.  Frontline is the best choice for fleas.

The preferred days for surgery are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

If the cat is feral (very wild) or somewhat wild, please let Teresa know.  If you need to borrow a trap or carrier, also let Teresa know.

Please let us know if you have questions.  Thank you so much for getting your cat's spayed and neutered.  There just isn't enough homes for all of them and too many are killed.

WE ARE ON A SPAY AND NEUTER MISSION!

The American Humane Association states that:

 "2 uncontrolled breeding cats, plus all of their kittens if none are ever spayed or neutered, add up to 2 million by the 8th year"!

Take the challenge! Can you spay or neuter one cat by the end of this year (and vaccinate to protect from diseases).  If each of us help one cat, wow, the results will be awesome!.  Please let me know if you take the challenge.  It is so rewarding to help.

If we can get everyone to help, hopefully in the next few years we can have a no-kill state.  Where no healthy, adoptable pets will be euthanized.  What a great accomplishment we can all make possible.

If you are one of those people who doesn't think it matters to spay and neuter or to help, please spend a day at a local shelter.  Watch them pile up animal after animal as they euthanize them.  It is a site and feeling you will never, ever forget.  

SPAYING AND NEUTERING IS HEALTHIER FOR YOUR PETS.

 

RECOMMENDED AGE FOR SPAYING AND NEUTERING IS 6 MONTHS OF AGE.

 

MALES (NEUTERING)  -  DOGS AND CATS

 

  REDUCES ROAMING BEHAVIORS

 REDUCES AGGRESSION

  REDUCES RISK OF PROSTATE CANCER AND PROSTATITIS

  ELIMINATES TESTICULAR CANCER

  REDUCES RISK OF SPRAYING BEHAVIOR IN CATS AND MARKING BEHAVIOR IN DOGS

 REDUCES RISK OF FIV DISEASE OUTDOOR MALE CATS (CAUSED BY FIGHTING, BITE WOUNDS)

 

FEMALES (SPAYING)  -  DOGS AND CATS

 

 ELI MATES GOING INTO HEAT

 REDUCES ESCAPING/ROAMING TO FIND A MATE

  PREVENTS PYOMETRA

 PREVENTS BREAST CANCER

  ELIMINATES UTERINE AND OVARIAN CANCER

  REDUCES INTERREX AGGRESSION