Tomorrow is the fourth annual Free Feral Cat Spay Day! It was started in 2010 by Alley Cat Rescue with a simple request that vets and organizations offer free spaying and neutering of feral cats for this one day. The first year, 150 vets across the United States participated! And South Africa jumped in, making the campaign international!
We are lucky to live in a city with a great organization, Fixnation, that works very hard to offer free spaying and neutering to as many ferals as they can handle every day, along with offering inexpensive veterinary services to low-income families. If you want to see if there are any clinics in your area participating, check the list here. Even if you don’t have a feral kitty that needs to be spayed, please make a point to thank any participating local vets for doing something good for feral kitties, and your community! If they know their work is being acknowledged, it will encourage them to continue their good deeds!
Caring for colony cats does a lot of things — it keeps their population under control, helps prevent disease, and builds a kinder, more humane community. Ferals who have been spayed or neutered and vaccinated are as healthy as most housecats, even if they are not as friendly! If you have some wild kitties in your neighborhood, you can make a difference — visit Alley Cat Rescue or Alley Cat Allies to learn how.
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Wonderful thing for all the participating vets to do! And it’s awesome what Fixnation’s mission is. Truly great. Our Spay Neuter KC doesn’t do them for free, but they’re an amazing rock-bottom $15. Kudos to these heroes!!
I hope they were wildly successful!
What a wonderful concept – I hope that it helps keep the outdoor cat population at bay and promotes awareness about spay/neuter for feral cats.
Free Feral Spay Day is a pawsome day !
I know that here in Sweden some vet´s spay Feral´s cat´s for free too 😀
That is a wonderful program–even though when I think of last August’s outrage, I wince a little bit. Still, it’s a GOOD thing. Right, yes, it is!
I’ve got to do this–we have feral cats in our parking lot at work. There are a few women who feed them and give them water, but I would hope that they would have them neutered/spayed too. I hate it when it is kitten season and more and more appear each year. While they are cute, I hate to see them breeding again.
Our outside cat Zolie has never looked better since we got her spayed. After constantly having litters of kittens she is now plump and sleek and her furs are shiny. It was hard to trap her, but worth it! Now if she would just be a bit less feral and let mom get close enough to stroke her, but that will probably never happen. But her life is better for it and thats all that matters!
Boy we could have saved lots of money if they had this in our area years ago. Great concept – so many feral care givers just cannot afford to get them spayed and neutered.
is this nationwide? and yearly happening? mama should put this down on her calendar for next year. this year is far too late.
Emma and Buster
That is indeed a great service and we hope it is a great success!
We hope it’s a big success to prevent lots more homeless kitties from being borned!
Mom checked our area and no vets are offering this. Do you know how we can go about soliciting some vets in our area to offer this? Our local TNR organization had a grant that helped low income families with this, but it has been totally used up. Thanks! Purrs and hugs Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Josette
Wow that is wonderful. I did not know they had that.
My former vet, now retired, and now Mom’s good friend, donates her time and service to our local SNIP clinic through our county shelter I think. S, Spay, N, Neuter, I Impact, P Program. They do S/N free and Miss Josie did 15 spays in one day!!! Pawsome huh Sparkle??
I think they spay and neuter throughout my state, but I’m not sure they’re quite fast enough to keep up with demand.
That is one of the best things Sparkle!
Thanks and shared.
this bee a grate program yur city haz sparkle….hope ewe N de BB gurls haza grate week oh end 😀
That is wonderful. The publicist is most in favor of protecting cats in this way.
What a terrific program. We didn’t see any clinics near us on the list, but we hope the day is a huge success!
P.S. – thanks for the information about the Eagle Rock Canyon Trail. 🙂
We always learn important stuff from you, gorgeous Sparkle!…Have a fun weekend, dear friends…xoxo…Calle, Halle, Sukki
we didn’t know about that (sheesh – mom falling down on the job again). We checked the list and there are a couple in our area. We are also lucky to have a great low cost clinic that takes ferals same day 🙂
absolutely fantastic and thanks for sharing the link to the list too. Just posted on Facebook and twitter!
What a great thing to offer! We looked at the list and were a little disappointed that there were not a lot of clinics in our area pawticipating. But we are fortunate to have a low cost spay/neuter clinic in our area that charges very little for fixing feral cats everyday.
We’re disappointed to see that there are no clinics anywhere near our area. Mom says that needs to change!
The Florida Furkids
Thanks, Sparkle! It’s a great idea to thank the vets who help with this, even if we don’t go to them or don’t know them. We will definitely check the list for our local vets participating so we can thank them.
Purrs,
Carmine, Milita, and Jewel
We hope lots of feral cats get spayed today – we always feel so sorry for the cats that end up having litters of kittens over and over again.
Luv Hannah and Lucy xx xx
This is such a great thing to have the free spaying and neutering for the feral cats.I sure hope lots of them get done. Take care.
Paws up! We don’t have anyone around us who is doing it free, but our group would sure help if it was for the ferals!
Harry, Dexter and Tipp
What a wonderful day. Some humans really do such wonderful things for kitties without homes.
We hope many ferals get the help they need & other vets hear about this!
That is a wonderful day and we purr it will be very successful!
Purrs Tillie and Georgia,
Treasure,Tiger,JJ and Julie