Juicy in the Mighty Mutts Play Yard
By Eliana Aubin
The Sierra County Humane Society, Inc. uses several avenues to raise funds for some of it’s most crucial programs, including the Spay-Neuter (S/N) and Spay-a-Stray programs, which by themselves cost our local animal welfare organization over $8,000 each year. Bullocks receipts, Pennies for Pets, Doggie Banks and also Cans for Critters are some of our ways to raise funds.
Interested in helping our organization keep this worthwhile program alive? Collect bags of aluminum cans and drop them off at Paws & Claws thrift shop when it is open for business, from Wednesday through Saturday. You can also drop them off at Desert Haven when visiting, or contact us at 894-2778 for the location of our Can Corral on East First Street. This program allows our organization to not only help with the local “green” movement and keep Sierra County Beautiful, but it also brings in $$$ for our Spay-Neuter and Spay-a-Stray program.
Through our spay-neuter (S/N) program, the SCHS distributes rebates to pet owners interested in getting their companion animal sterilized but needing the financial incentive to do so. The S/N applications are available at Paws & Claws thrift shop and also at the T or C Police station, which has been the applications' pick-up point since the program started almost 20 years ago.
Our Spay-a-Stray program allows feral cats to be sterilized at no cost to their caretakers. The typical feral cat is born outside and has never lived in a home with a human family - feral cats inhabit a niche in our world totally their own, neither truly wild nor potential pets. Did you know that more cats are killed intentionally in the US than die of any other documented cause? Every day in every state, feral and stray cats are being exterminated, and this killing is funded by our tax dollars - wasteful, cruel, ineffective and, according to reliable sources, completely unnecessary. We believe that killing them systematically not only is inexcusable, but it does not even solve the problem of feral cat overpopulation. On the other hand, sterilizing feral cats steadily decreases their population. It is also cheaper to neuter a feral cat than to impound, house, kill and dispose of their body.
We believe in a common sense solution to senseless killing, and consequently, in the mid-90’s, we adopted the trap-neuter-release method of controlling feral cats in our communities. It’s also the humane thing to do. The SCHS picks- up the tab, and our local veterinarian performs his services for the Spay-a-Stray sterilization at a reduced rate.
Interested in learning more about our organization? contact us at 575-894-2778, e-mail us at eliana4pets@gmail.com, visit us on Tuesdays, or check us out at www.DeserthavenAnimalRefuge.com.
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