Supporting Spay Neuter Across Georgia!
Every month, our hard-working Spay/Neuter Partners who have received Fix Georgia Pets grants are out in our communities facilitating more spay and neuter. Their efforts may include helping pet owners access low cost options, feral cat trap neuter and release (TNR), or simply assuring every cat and dog adopted out into a new family is already snipped!
Upcoming Events
Stayed tuned to our partners at Planned Pethood for this December spay/neuter outreach event in Habersham County.
Previous Events
- Nov 9: Furkids Spay/Neuter Event
- Oct: Athens Area Humane Society Free Spay/Neuter Clinic
- Sep: WGSNC and Purrfect Peaches Spay Neuter Day
- Sep: Good Mews TNR and Fix-A-Thon
- Aug: Waycross TNR with Kudzu Cat Alliance
- July: Klassy Kats TNR Day
- July: Athens Area Humane Society Community Event
- July: Furkids Spay Neuter Day
- June: Athens Area Humane Society
- June: Humane Society of Forsyth County
- June: Madison-Oglethorpe Animal Shelter
- June: Planned PEThood Spay Neuter Day
- March: Furkids TNR Day
We’re proud to have participated in the Athens Area Humane Society (AAHS) free pet clinic in October! Through the help of other sponsors, they provided no-cost vaccines, heartworm/flea prevention, and food/supplies for up to 200 pets in multiple rural counties throughout North and Northeast Georgia.
More importantly, they handed out 50 Fix Georgia Pets spay/neuter vouchers to families in need as a proactive effort to curtail these community reproducers before they add to Georgia’s pet overpopulation epidemic. Congrats to AAHS for their event success, proving once again that we are stronger together when it comes to caring for Georgia’s pets!
Enjoy the video footage from the successful community clinic day!
All reservations were booked within days of announcing Purrfect Peaches‘ September 10 event at West Georgia Spay Neuter Clinic. This just reminds us that the demand for spay/neuter remains high, even in our metro counties like Douglas. Please continue to donate to our mission to stop the senseless euthanasia of unwanted pets in our county shelters so we can give these wonderfully deserving teams more grants to pull it off!
Using a recent Fix Georgia Pets grant, Good Mews was able to team up with the Community Cat Support Coalition of Canton to conduct a full day of trap-neuter-vaccinate-return (TNVR) on Monday, September 16, followed by two days of surgeries for these feral cats September 17-18.
This hard-working team trapped 52 community cats in neighboring Cherokee County! The event was a huge success and just goes to show that when amazing volunteers work closely with other non-profit groups we are in fact “stronger together”!
Fix Georgia Pets sponsored and assisted rescue advocate Lori Trahan and friends from the Kudzu Cat Alliance with this stray cat trap neuter release (TNR) effort in Waycross, Georgia.
This is a very high-need area for our efforts, as it is rural, and there are limited low-cost spay/neuter and/or folks able to trap and control the stray cat population in this area. The footage from this event is a must watch—awesome teamwork and a grateful community. If you want to learn how to trap cats, it’s all in the videos.
Special thanks to Pounce de Leon for providing traps! Go, team, go!
- If those 24 females had a litter of 4 kittens each, that would be 96 kittens born.
- If each of those females had given birth to 3 litters in a year, that would have been 288 kittens.
- If half of the 288 kittens born to those 24 females were females, each with four kittens, that would be 576 kittens at least three litters a year.
- If you multiply 576 x 3, there’s a possibility of 1,728 kittens in one year from 24 females in our county.
This July event brought Klassy Kats to 162 cats fixed in 2024! Keep up the great work – we are stronger together!
Thanks to their Fix Georgia Pets grant, the Athens Area Humane Society could provide spay/neuter vouchers during their Free Pet Vaccine and Microchip Clinic in July! We hear many vouchers were used at their clinic after the event to get some precious furbabies ‘fixed’ and ensure they’re not adding unwanted litters to our already-overwhelmed Georgia shelters.
The July low-cost spay and neuter day hosted by Furkids in Cumming, GA resulted in 80 cats being fixed. One thing Furkids and Fix GA Pets have in common is the desire to keep people and pets together, and we were thrilled to help provide affordable spay and neuter services to families in need.
It’s true that cats don’t add – they multiply! With the highest number of intakes we have ever seen, the importance of spaying and neutering your pets cannot be understated.
Hear from Athens County Humane Society about how Fix Georgia Pets is made a difference for pets in their community in June. Almost 60 pets were fixed as part of this spay neuter event!
What an amazing day of progress for the folks in the Athens area!
Every year the Madison-Oglethorpe Animal Shelter (MOAS) takes in almost 3,000 animals with the vast majority of these intakes being cats and kittens. Fix Georgia Pets is pleased to help with their trap-neuter-return efforts in the community — this effort is vital to solving Georgia’s pet overpopulation epidemic. We applaud the hard work of this organization and their commitment to getting the job done!
In June, our partners at Planned Pethood used their grant toward 200 spay/neuter vouchers, distributed at their Pet Community Clinic in Athens-Clark County. These community health clinics draw residents in for necessary healthcare like vaccines and flea treatment and allow them to have the conversation about why spaying/neutering is better for their pet’s health and goes a long way toward preventing the ongoing epidemic of too many pets, not enough homes in Georgia. We thank our partners for addressing this community’s need with proactive spay/neuter, as we know the Athens/Clarke County shelter is among many that are having to put unwanted pets to sleep due to lack of space and adoptions. We are stronger together, and every spay/neuter effort counts when it comes to saving pet lives!
Our Executive Director Tricia visited Furkids in March as they spayed/neutered 18 stray and feral cats! They chatted about future projects focused on ending pet overpopulation and supporting families and pets.
Grants from Fix Georgia Pets enable Furkids to continue their mission of saving lives and positively impacting their community. Thank you, Furkids, for your ongoing dedication!
