Recording Breaking Month for Spay/Neuter

The Humane Society Spay Neuter Clinic  has completed a record breaking month in July, performing over 1,000 spay/neuter surgeries. The record breaking month included KittySnip, a promotion run by the Humane Society from June 16 – July 18 which offered free surgeries for kittens under 5 months of age. The promotion was open to the public and was met with overwhelming response.

Over 700 KittySnip surgeries were performed during the promotion. In response to the success of KittySnip, the Humane Society plans to make the promotion an annual event along with two more promotions per year – one in October dubbed “Howlin’ for Halloween," in which the Humane Society will offer free surgery for female cats in exchange for five cans of food that will be donated to Harvest Hope Food Bank, and "Puppaloosa," which will target free surgeries for puppies under the age of 5 months slated for April 2009. These promotions aid in the Humane Society’s mission to end pet overpopulation, an epidemic that causes 20,000 pets per year to be euthanized in the Midlands area alone, at a staggering cost of $1.4 million dollars of taxpayer’s money.

Consider these spay/neuter stats:

• Preventing 100 animals from entering local area shelters saves taxpayers $7,000

• 20,000 animals euthanized per year = $1.4 million dollars of taxpayer money

• Younger animals suffer less discomfort from surgery than older animals

• Spay/Neutering your pet saves them from certain cancers and improves their overall health

We Need Foster Parents!

The HSPCA is building a foster home network to help care for animals seized in abuse/neglect cases. Fosters will be responsible for taking in animals and caring for them while the HSPCA awaits custody rulings from courts or while the animals are rehabilitated back to health before permanently placed with an adoptive family.

Fosters will have to meet HSPCA qualifications to become part of the network. Part of the process will be filling out an application, a phone interview and a home visit. All fosters must be willing to keep domestic pets (dogs and cats) inside of their homes.

We currently have 2 adult female mix breed dogs and 3 puppies (two females, one male) that need foster homes. The five dogs were part of the seizure/rescue done in February ’08 when the HSPCA rescued an unprecedented 45 Arabian Horses. If you are interested in fostering one of our five dogs please contact the HSPCA at 803-783-1267 ext. 17 to submit a foster application.

If you are unable to foster now, but are interested in fostering in the future - please submit a foster application so we can add you to our foster network.

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