Attention, Alabama and Tennessee residents!
The North Alabama Spay Neuter Clinic is now open in Huntsville. They charge $35 for feline neuters, $45 for feline spays, $55 for canine neuters, and $65 for canine spays. The only cost above the basic charge is $10 for the rabies vaccination if you cannot provide proof that your animal has been vaccinated in the past 12 months.
PLEASE NOTE THAT ANYONE CAN USE THE SPAY AND NEUTER CLINIC. You do NOT have to qualify! There is no extra charge for weight or if the cat/ dog is in heat. Ear tipping for ferals is free.
The clinic also provides FeLV/FIV test and heartworm tests for $20 and the other vaccinations for $10, but those are completely optional. They’ll also do fecals!
The North Alabama Spay Neuter Clinic web site is here.
Please please please pass the word. I know there are so many people who are unfortunately put off from having their cats and dogs spayed and neutered by the potential high cost (OY the stories I’ve heard!). The fewer unwanted kittens and puppies who are brought into this world, the better.
Maybe one day there’ll be no such thing as unwanted cats and dogs. Wouldn’t that be lovely?
Someone asked yesterday how much longer the Bookworms will be around. The short answer: I don’t know.
The long answer: Not only were Garrity and Franco returned to the adoption center last Friday (two college roommates adopted them, then discovered that one of them has allergies), but Lieu was returned on Saturday (the woman who adopted him lost her cat three years ago and once she got him home decided that she wasn’t emotionally ready for another cat yet.) Garrity was adopted again before the end of adoption hours Saturday, which leaves Lieu and Franco still looking for their forever homes.
None of Los Gatitos have been adopted yet. I KNOW, I DON’T GET IT EITHER. I thought for sure I’d be fighting off potential adopters on my way from the car to the adoption center when I took them in.
And my fosters aren’t the only fosters in line for adoption, so it’s going to depend on how adoptions go and when room opens up at the adoption center. In other words, if adoptions pick up it could be soon – and if they stay this slow, it could be a while. These goofy Bookworms with their ridiculously long and lanky legs crack me up, and obviously they’re welcome to stay here as long as they need to, ’til room opens up.
But just in case they need to go soon, Elwood will make sure that Bolitar is shined up and ready to go.
“What?”
Previously
2009: I deserve a Nobel peace prize or something.
2008: This is MY SITE.
2007: No entry.
2006: I reflected for a moment that I wasn’t hovering over him in the dead of night, so I didn’t know how I could have possibly scared him.
2005: See that? I made a thinly veiled joke about his age! I am SO FUNNY!
2004: As for where the odd socks go – the bad ones go to hell, don’t they?
2003: Oui, I am back! Let the rejoicing begin!
2002: No entry.
2001: No entry.
2000: So we were at the beach this morning by 10.
Looking at the photos of Elwood and Bolitar prompts me to ask if any of the permanent residents ever miss the lodgers when they are sent to the adoption centre? I know your heart breaks but I have an image of thousands of kitty tears being shed (which, I realise, in the case of some like Stinkerbell and Miz Poo, maybe tears of joy)!
I love the bookworms. If you can get 2 of them to the northeast, I’d take them hehe
Ahhh the brudderly love is so sweet-I think of them all as siblings even if they are not littermates. Maybe they are step siblings-what do you think? My husband is watching The Real Housewives of NJ on the dvr (he loves it-he is from that area and likes to look for local landmarks he might remember after 34 years lol). He can’t believe the money they are spending when they were soon to be bnakrupt. I love it that my husband isn’t into sports but likes gossip too. Now if only I can get him to like True Blood more.Now I have to go see Rex Smith-I remember the song but not the man.
Cute pictures of Elwood and Boliter. Too bad (or probably good) you are not nearer to Austin or I would be the crazy cat lady with the Los Gatos and/or bookworms.
“Maybe one day there’ll be no such thing as unwanted cats and dogs. Wouldn’t that be lovely?”
God, yes. I wish puppies and kittens were so scarce that they cost a lot of money to buy. Maybe then fewer of them would be abused, too. We can dream, can’t we?
People who can’t afford to spay/neuter their pets shouldn’t have pets. Period.
Oh yeah, Robyn, I checked out Rex Smith on YouTube. I’m such a ditz – I TOTALLY remember him from Solid Gold in the 1980’s. Not sure how embarrassed I should be about that.
I feel like I was watching kitty porn with the Elwood/Bolitar lovefest. Oh my.
We were just adopted by a long haired abused, starved, tortured little girl kitty that we named Daphne. She showed up on the porch one day and of course I fed her, kissed her, loved her and took her to the vet. Someone had actually shot her twice with a BB gun- once in the chin and once in the chest. One spaying, several shots, a port in her chest for the BB infection to drain from and VOILA we have a beautiful new girl. (Let’s not talk about the vet bill)
Yes, people should need permits to have pets.
!!!! I posted this to FB, but I didn’t know if you’d see it there, so I *HAD* to tell you about it here 🙂 Big Cats on the ‘nip!! http://icanhascheezburger.com/2010/08/04/funny-pictures-video-tiger-catnip/
~Juby