You have my understanding
Maybe in other states, the cost of spay/neuter has gone down, but in PA where we are overpopulated with cats...the cost has gone up. I have volunteered at Tiger Ranch, Butler County Humane Society, Grove City Pet Rescue, and a couple boarding kennels...and they are all full of animals and turning people down. I work as as a mental health worker in local, small cities and you see stray cats everywhere. The lower class families are animal lovers but can't afford the vet work and the high class families are too worried about their material things and the smell of animals to take more than one animal in and I know they can afford it. The average cost of a spay or neuter at a vet around here is between 100-200 because they add in office visit, anesthesia, antibiotics for afterwards and a one day stay at the clinic. I have six pets that are all rescues except one....and they are all one's that came to me. Kitten in my parents barn, cat in my back yard, another cat from a family who couldn't take care of it, a dog from a boss's dog house who didn't know her dog was pregnant. I didn't go looking for this animals...it was just fate. With six animals...only two I bought (chinchillas), thats $1200 to get them all fixed....I don't understand why our local vets and clinics can not come up with a spay/neuter low cost program and why our government can not give our local shelters more funding and why people are not stepping up to adopt! I rent my home and I was not suppose to have more than 2 cats...ha...that didn't happen. As I found these animals, I found some way to talk my landlord into it by keeping the house clean and always paying rent on time and I even remodeled her home by plastering, painting, and wallpapering myself. There are some ideas to suck up to your landlord...lol. Anyway, my heart goes out to all of you who are trying and if you read the other Tiger Ranch threads, you will see my story of my encounters with her. Thanks for your input.
Help with too many cats and spay or neuter
That would be great. I can use any help available. Thanks!
Low/No Cost Spay/Neuter programs
* NeuterSpay.org provides a list of worldwide low cost or free spay & neuter resources for pets and feral cats.
* Call 1-888-PETS911 (1-888-738-7911) and follow the instructions, or visit PETS911.com. Enter your zip code, click on "Go," and click on "Spay Neuter."
* Friends of Animals offers low cost spay/neuter vouchers. Call 1-800-321-PETS (1-800-321-7387).
* Call SPAY/USA at 1-800-248-SPAY (1-800-248-7729) between the hours of 9 am and 5 pm EST. SPAY/USA has low cost spay/neuter programs in 1,000 locations across all 50 states.
* Visit Love That Cat! for a listing by state of low cost spay/neuter clinics.
* Call your local humane society or animal care and control facility for information on a low cost clinic in your area. Find contact information for local groups at PETS911.com.
* Visit PBRC's Spay/Neuter Assistance for an application for Pit Bull Rescue Central Spay/Neuter funding and many other resources.
* Do a search (using an engine such as Google, Yahoo!, Dogpile, Ask Jeeves, or WebCrawler) with the words "low cost spay neuter".