Paws-itive Partners, along with P.A.L.s (Prevent-A-Litter), is hosting Love My Cat in February 2014. The event is an all-out effort to help low to moderate income cat owners spay and neuter their pets. Love My Cat is a month long project with the goal of stopping over population.
Veterinary clinics in North Platte and Sutherland will reduce the price of spaying and neutering cats beginning February 1, 2014, and continuing through the end of the month. Low to moderate income cat owners will pay only $25 for their cat’s spay and neuter. The $25 fee is payable to the clinic at the time of the appointment. Paws-itive Partners and P.A.L.s is paying the balance of the fees. Pet owners can call veterinary clinics to schedule their cat’s appointment and they don’t have to contact Paws-itive Partners or P.A.L.s in order to use Love My Cat.
“Love My Cat helps people help cats,” said Levaun Beyer from Paws-itive Partners. “Spaying and neutering cats is the most effective way to stop pet overpopulation. It reduces the number of unwanted pets and pet deaths,” said Beyer. “Our Love My Cat program makes spaying and neutering especially affordable.” This is the fourth time Paws-itive Partners has hosted Love My Cat since the fall of 2011 and through the program, 1,046 cats and kittens in the Lincoln County area have been spayed and neutered. Love My Cat has been a great success in the past and we’re hoping this time will be just as successful,” Beyer said.
Long-time P.A.L.s member Velma Carlson is especially concerned about homeless and feral cats. “Homeless and feral cats have a harder time than most and they need extra help to stop overpopulation. Love My Cat is for domestic cats but it’s also for homeless and feral cats,” Carlson said. P.A.L.s and Paws-itive Partners encourages people to get involved with their community’s homeless and feral cats by humanely trapping them and taking them to be spayed and neutered. Carlson hopes for as many cats and kittens as possible to be spayed and neutered during February. “House cats are wonderful animals and so are homeless and feral cats.”
No cat will be turned away, but the non-profit organizations and veterinary clinics stress that Love My Cat’s focus is low to moderate income pet owners and homeless and feral cats. If pet owners have the financial means to spay and neuter please do so and allow Love My Cat to use resources for the people and cats that need them most. Beyer said Love My Cat appointments fill up fast so people are urged to schedule their pet’s appointment right away.
If pet owners have questions about Love My Cat they can call their veterinary clinic or Jo Mayber at 308-532-8814.