Grant of $40,000 will extend efforts to reduce shelter intake in Dallas

 Dallas, TX (July 29, 2020) – Spay Neuter Network has been awarded a $40,000 grant investment from the Petco Foundation to help reduce the number of pets entering shelters through its intake diversion program and create a lifesaving community for animals.

The Petco Foundation investment will help pet parents access resources such as veterinary care, training and behavior support, pet food assistance, and intake-diversion counseling with the goal of keeping families together. Spay Neuter Network’s Pet Support & Resource Center works with pet owners to keep pets in the home to reduce shelter intake. When an owner absolutely cannot keep a pet, a network of rescues works to rehome the animal quickly so it will never pass through a shelter.

“Spay Neuter Network is excited about our partnership with the City of Dallas, Dallas Animal Services, and Petco Foundation to help residents find alternatives to surrendering their pets to the City shelter.  So far, this program has resulted in a positive outcome for 65% of pets. These dogs and cats either ended up staying in their homes, were rehomed to a new owner, or went directly into a north Texas rescue instead of entering the City shelter.” Said Bonnie hill, SNN Executive Director.  “We could not do our life-saving work without support from organizations like Petco Foundation.”

Spay Neuter Network’s mission is to eliminate pet overpopulation through spay/neuter while empowering communities to care responsibly for dogs and cats. SNN performs more than 30,000 surgeries annually and provides wellness and preventative services for an additional 50,000 pets each year at little to no cost to pet owners in North Texas.  This is accomplished through a network of three spay/neuter clinics, a surgery transport service for those with limited transportation, and a Mobile Animal Spay/Neuter Hospital (MASH).

For more information about Spay Neuter Network or to donate, contact us at 972-472-3500 or donate here. For more on the Petco Foundation, visit petcofoundation.org and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using the hashtag #PetcoFamily.

About Spay Neuter Network

Spay Neuter Network’s mission is to eliminate pet overpopulation through spay/neuter while empowering communities to care responsibly for dogs and cats. This mission is accomplished by providing free and affordable spay/neuter, wellness, and vaccination services for dogs and cats across North Texas. Our goal is to reduce shelter intake and create compassionate communities free of homeless pets.

About the Petco Foundation

At the Petco Foundation, we believe that every animal deserves to live its best life. Since 1999, we’ve invested more than $280 million in lifesaving animal welfare work to make that happen. With our more than 4,000 animal welfare partners, we inspire and empower communities to make a difference by investing in adoption and medical care programs, spay and neuter services, pet cancer research, service and therapy animals, and numerous other lifesaving initiatives. Through our Think Adoption First program, we partner with Petco stores and animal welfare organizations across the country to increase pet adoptions. So far, we’ve helped more than 6.5 million pets find their new loving families, and we’re just getting started. Visit petcofoundation.org to learn more about how you can get involved.

A HUGE thank you to our community of donors, volunteers, our staff, and our board for helping to make North Texas Giving Day 2020 our best year ever! You helped raise nearly $47,000!

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Fixed. For Good.

Empower every family to care responsibly for the pets they love. 

Empower every community to humanely prevent homeless dogs and cats.

 

Now, more than ever is a chance to create a healthier and safer future for every pet and every family, regardless of wealth or income.

Support Spay Neuter Network on North Texas Giving Day Thursday, September 17th.

Your support will provide spaying, neutering, vaccines, and basic veterinary care to more than 60,000 dogs and cats this year in communities across 15 Texas counties where elderly pet owners, working families, rescues, and shelters have few resources to get veterinary care.

Donate on North Texas Giving Day, and a portion of your donation will be matched by the Communities Foundation of Texas!

Busy on September 17th? No problem. You can donate during Early Giving starting September 1st!

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Win a prize from our awesome sponsors and donors!

You could win:

• A double Gift Pack of super absorbent, super soft doggy bathing towels from The Absorber – The Dog Lover’s Towel
• A one year supply of Munchables and Squeezables kitty treats from Simply Kind Heated Pet Treats
• A prize pack of master-crafted bone broth for dogs and a gift certificate from Brutus Broth
• A doggy trucker hat for your pooch from PupLid
• 5 Pet Portrait Photography Sessions from Adrian Carroll Photography
• A gift box of Vital Essentials raw pet food
• A kitty toy trio playset from Tuft + Paw
• A gift box of vegan dog treats from v-dog

Donate between September 1 and September 17, and you’ll automatically be entered in to win. A donation doesn’t guarantee a prize, and no donation is necessary to enter the prize drawing. Click here to enter without a donation.

 

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Sign up to create a FUNdraising page on our North Texas Giving Day page. Share your FUNdraising page and collect donations!

Our top five FUNdraisers this year will be entered to win an hour-long trail ride on 117 acres! Don’t forget to say howdy to Tip and the other Broken Bow Ranch dogs!

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Have questions? Contact Carol.Huang@spayneuternet.org

Your support strengthens the ability of individuals and neighborhoods to take responsible action through programs such as:

• • Free and low-cost spaying and neutering. You’ll help our clinics spay, neuter, vaccinate and/or microchip more than 60,000 dogs and cats this year.

• • Making at-risk neighborhoods safer. You’ll help educate families about spaying, neutering and keeping pets off streets. Last year alone, our outreach team worked with 30,500 households in underserved communities.

• • Educating future pet owners. You’ll help teach pet safety and pet care to over 5,000 K-5 public school children in communities where there are many strays.

• • Aid to desperate pet owners. You’ll support a new program for families who call the City of Dallas to surrender a pet. In its first six weeks, this program helped keep 67% of the unwanted pets out of the Dallas shelter by helping families find alternatives, including foster homes and rescues.

• • Critical support for veterinary deserts. Your gift will bring our transport vans and 40-foot mobile animal hospital to 15 Texas counties and make care available in communities where basic veterinary care is remote or nonexistent.

 

We will post updates to this page as information is released.

UPDATE 4.3.2020

Spay Neuter Network has continued to monitor developments with COVID-19 (2019 Novel Coronavirus). When responding to an infectious disease, Spay Neuter Network closely follows the recommendations made by our state and county health department. We also monitor and follow guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, TVMA, AVMA and many experienced animal welfare organizations. After reviewing new regulations and the essential business reduction list from Governor Abbott effective until April 30^th and projected extensions of the Stay at Home orders issued for most North Texas communities, the Spay Neuter Network Board of Directors has voted to close all clinics through May 1, 2020.

This has been a very difficult decision for us as we are a safety net for those that need affordable pet healthcare and April is a time of year that many dogs and cats are breeding and giving birth.

Saving animals lives is what we do every day. However, our team made the decision to shift temporarily to save human lives.  The lives saved are perhaps yours, your loved ones, or a SNN staff member.  We need our community to Stay at Home so that when Spay Neuter Network is ready to begin our mission full steam ahead, the community and our team are healthy.

While you, our customers, are at home safe, our executive team and staff members are working hard (from home) to get ready for the huge increase of unwanted dogs and cats that will  fill our communities over the next month.  Many litters will be born into families already struggling to keep their families fed; many feral kittens will be born on the streets. We need to be ready to go full force when we reopen.

Some of the things that Spay Neuter Network will be working on:

1. We are available to fill your heartworm and flea and tick prevention by calling 972-472-3500 or emailing us at info@spayneuternet.org
2. While most shelters remain closed to the public, our customer service team will be working hard to help owners find new homes for pets that they can no longer care for and providing solutions to help feed, train and keep the pets in their home.
3. Developing a strong targeted program for feral and community cats to get as many fixed as possible when we reopen.
4. Working to coordinate with rescues and shelter to help get pets sterilized as quickly as possible that were adopted with a spay/neuter contract.
5. In addition, so we can better serve you, our technicians and customer service personnel will be working to pass their CVA Level 1 and 2 certifications through the Texas Veterinary Medical Association.
6. We will be working on technology improvements to streamline the new “normal” check-in process so that you can get your pet checked in more quickly and you more quickly on your way home.   
7. We will be working with national funders and spay/neuter groups to prepare for a mega spay-a-thon for early fall so that we can fix a large number of dogs and cats for FREE very quickly to make up for the time we have lost.

Please know that we are available by phone Monday through Friday from 8 am to 5 pm to answer any questions you may have.  We are all in this together and we will make it through stronger and better than ever.  Stay safe.

 

Sincerely,

Bonnie Hill

Executive Director

Is your pet spayed/neutered?

February is Spay/Neuter Awareness Month and February 25, 2020 is World Spay Day.

According to Bonnie Hill, Executive Director at Spay Neuter Network, the decision to spay or neuter your pet can be the best decision you make for both your pet’s and your community’s long-term welfare.

The surgery provides important health benefits, including longer life expectancy, lower rates of certain cancers and fewer behavioral issues.

The community can benefit too. Spaying and neutering keeps stray pet populations down, which means fewer homeless pets in animal shelters. If just one male and female cat and their offspring are left to breed on their own, they can have over 2,000 cats in just five years! Spaying and neutering indoor-only pets helps prevent unwanted pregnancies, both in your home and in case of accidental escape.

Spay Neuter Network is a nonprofit offering free and low-cost spay/neuter services across the Dallas and Fort worth metro area as well as surrounding counties. 

For information about spay and neuter services, please call 972-472-3500.