In partnership with the Tom & Mom Cat Special, Willamette Humane Society’s Spay & Neuter Clinic participated in Spay Day USA, offering $20 cat spays and $10 cat neuters for a special surgery event. Our goal was to spay/neuter 50 cats in one day. (A normal surgery day for us is 25 animals.)
We did it! Today we fixed 56 cats!! 29 females and 27 males. We had both of our vets, our full clinic staff and some of our most amazing volunteers to help the day go smoothly. Everyone did a great job from check in (which started before 7am) through the final clean up this evening.
The nice thing about Spay Day is that it is a chance to catch female cats before they go into heat or get pregnant. Amazingly we have seen cats in heat coming to our clinic since December. If only cats weren’t so good at reproducing…
The local newspaper came out to see the event and already has pictures up on their website. Here are a few.
Picture by KOBBI R. BLAIR | Statesman Journal
Picture by KOBBI R. BLAIR | Statesman Journal
Picture by KOBBI R. BLAIR | Statesman Journal
It was a long day but very rewarding. I can’t wait until next year.
Update:
The rest of the Statesman Journal’s article came out this morning and included video of the event.