"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." - Benjamin Franklin
Since Sept. 2016, West TN Spay Neuter has fixed over 1,200 owned dogs and cats and feral cats.
Many of these pets were having litters or were very young. If these surgeries prevented an average of five offspring per pet...
...we may have prevented the breeding of 6,000 cats and dogs that would be at risk of homelessness.
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Spay/neuter is smart use of a community's resources to benefit animal welfare.
"The only humane method of population control that has demonstrated a correlation with long-term efficacy in significantly reducing the number of animals entering animal shelters is the voluntary sterilization of owned pets. Rescue of neglected pets often requires extensive veterinarian care and huge amounts of volunteer time. For families, the cost of a low-cost spay/neuter surgery is less than that of caring for a litter. The cost of housing, vetting, feeding, and euthanizing an animal in a shelter is higher than a low-cost spay/neuter." - ASPCA
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At this time we are helping low-income pet owners and and hardship cases only. Surgery fees are raised by: "copays" from pet owners, private donations, and grants.
All of our volunteers' time, work, use of computers, etc. is donated.
Learn More:
We cannot adopt, warehouse or rescue our way out of dog & cat overpopulation! by Jeff Young, dvm
Why We Need Spay Neuter Programs - SpayNeuterJackson Tumblr, 2016
* REPLACING MYTH WITH MATH: USING EVIDENCE-BASED PROGRAMS TO ERADICATE SHELTER OVERPOPULATION - Peter Marsh, 2010
Since Sept. 2016, West TN Spay Neuter has fixed over 1,200 owned dogs and cats and feral cats.
Many of these pets were having litters or were very young. If these surgeries prevented an average of five offspring per pet...
...we may have prevented the breeding of 6,000 cats and dogs that would be at risk of homelessness.
_________________
Spay/neuter is smart use of a community's resources to benefit animal welfare.
"The only humane method of population control that has demonstrated a correlation with long-term efficacy in significantly reducing the number of animals entering animal shelters is the voluntary sterilization of owned pets. Rescue of neglected pets often requires extensive veterinarian care and huge amounts of volunteer time. For families, the cost of a low-cost spay/neuter surgery is less than that of caring for a litter. The cost of housing, vetting, feeding, and euthanizing an animal in a shelter is higher than a low-cost spay/neuter." - ASPCA
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At this time we are helping low-income pet owners and and hardship cases only. Surgery fees are raised by: "copays" from pet owners, private donations, and grants.
All of our volunteers' time, work, use of computers, etc. is donated.
Learn More:
We cannot adopt, warehouse or rescue our way out of dog & cat overpopulation! by Jeff Young, dvm
Why We Need Spay Neuter Programs - SpayNeuterJackson Tumblr, 2016
* REPLACING MYTH WITH MATH: USING EVIDENCE-BASED PROGRAMS TO ERADICATE SHELTER OVERPOPULATION - Peter Marsh, 2010
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