Spay/Neuter Services Stories

This shelter completely turned around the way it handles stray cats, and thousands of lives have been saved because of it

Kitten season is the time of year when animal shelters are overrun by kittens because birth rates are higher. Read about programs to save kittens.

Susan and David Trussell are feral cat colony caregivers in Ogden, Utah, and Best Friends volunteers in Salt Lake City who teach about outdoor cat care.

Kentucky Humane Society SNIP Clinic reduces the number of pets surrendered to Louisville Metro Animal Services by providing spay and neuter services.

Stray cat complaints and concerns about birds at Lafreniere Park in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, leads to creation of inclusive community TNR program.

Teen helps strays by caring for free-roaming cats in need and trapping felines for trap neuter return. She plans to start her own TNR nonprofit.

Best Friends awards Humane Animal Treatment Society a grant to help fund their spay and neuter program for pets already in homes.

Roughly March through April is kitten season. Read what Best Friends is doing to save the littlest shelter kittens.

The stray and feral cats of Cobb County, just outside Atlanta, Georgia, are receiving help in the form of a trap-neuter-return (TNR) program.

Best Friends launches trap neuter return (TNR) program to help stray, feral, unowned outdoor felines in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Best Friends Spay/Neuter Clinic in Ogden, Utah, offers low cost pet sterilization. Read story of one man who got a mom cat and her kittens fixed.

Just-born orphaned kitten is saved and brought to Best Friends kitten nursery, where she's bottle-fed and cared for, fostered, and finally adopted.

Columbus Community Cats Project, which provides spay, neuter, and vaccination services, helps keep stray cats out of animal shelters in Georgia.