Why SPAY-NEUTER CLARKSVILLE! clinic?
“There is no disease or condition of companion animals that takes as many of their lives as euthanasia,” says Janet M. Scarlett, DVM, Associate Professor of Epidemiology at Cornell University. “The vision is the strategic placement of this spay/neuter model across the nation. Clearly, our nation’s best defense against all of the sources of shelter intake is targeted, aggressive, high-volume, high-quality, low-cost sterilization.”
Click here to view or print the PDF of our Friends & Family campaign letter to learn how you can help us reach the financial goal needed to open the Spay-Neuter Clarksville! clinic. (Note: You will need to have Adobe Reader or another PDF reader installed to view and print this document.)
A high-volume spay-neuter clinic will:
1) prevent overpopulation by making spaying and neutering available to all families, regardless of income, at a fraction of current costs
2) decrease euthanasia rates for healthy, adoptable pets (75% as of March 2012 at the local county shelter), all paid for with our tax dollars. We use the term adoptable because most animals euthanized are perfectly loving dogs & cats dropped off at the shelter by the hundreds every week, dumped on country roads, or tied up & abandoned at an address the owner never returns to. There isn’t room for them all at the shelter!
3) keep our streets and neighborhoods safer by reducing the number of strays
4) put Clarksville “on the map” for offering a clinic that so many smaller communities already offer
5) improve quality of life issues for people & pets in our community
With your help, we can and will change the status quo! PLEASE help us promote this campaign so that this clinic’s doors can open as soon as possible. Every dime counts… as does every minute for the hundreds dying at the shelter each month. The HSCMC will continue fundraising & securing grants to support our current spay-neuter voucher program, but funds collected from the Friends and Family campaign will offset these grants as well as provide an operational nest egg during the clinic’s early months until it becomes self-sustaining, which should be within six months of business.
We urge you to donate whatever your family can give!