Lower Spay /Neuter Programs For Low Income Families with pets & Rescues
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Veterinary Offices
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This is to try to get vet offices to drop their prices or do a free of charge spay or neuter for families on a low income & for Rescues that are on a very limited budget. Not every one can afford to pay $25.00 or more for a spay / neuter of any pet that they may have. If done for a reasonable price (for example: $20.00), many more people would get their pets spayed or neutered and greatly reduce the number of unwanted pets / ferals that have to be euthinized due to over population. This would even help out many rescues that are a small budget. Veterinary offices could even do a spay / neuter marathon free of charge and deduct the total amount off their taxes.
This is to try to get vet offices to drop their prices or do a free of charge spay or neuter for families on a low income & for Rescues that are on a very limited budget. Not every one can afford to pay $25.00 or more for a spay / neuter of any pet that they may have. If done for a reasonable price (for example: $20.00), many more people would get their pets spayed or neutered and greatly reduce the number of unwanted pets / ferals that have to be euthinized due to over population. This would even help out many rescues that are a small budget. Veterinary offices could even do a spay / neuter marathon free of charge and deduct the total amount off their taxes.
I think you should consider the fact that not everyone can afford to pay $25.00 or more for a spay / neuter of any pet that they have. If done at a reasonable price, many more people would get their pets spayed or neutered and even be willing to help the feral (cats) animals get spayed or neutered. This would greatly reduce the amount of unwanted pets / ferals that go through the rescues and shelters around the state and nation wide each year. If you offer this free of charge, you could write it off on your taxes.
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Would you consider asking your vets office to lower spay / neuter cost to $20.00 for low income families with pets & rescues? Why or Why not?
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Would you consider asking your vets office to lower spay / neuter cost to $20.00 for low income families with pets & rescues? Why or Why not?
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Yes - there would be less need for resue groups!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I would LOVE to get my dog spayed and all her shots - i am a single mom living in NJ and we all know how expensive that is. I'm hardly able to make all my bills monthly let alone go to the dentist due to financial reasons and on top of that afford to be able to take care of a dog i took in from the street.
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I am owned by 9 cats myself, and I find it very difficult to keep on turning away strays that find me because I simply cannot afford to pay the high prices of spaying and neutering. Obviously, a person goes into the veterinary field because of their compassion and love for animals...can't you understand that if the rate is lowered, more people will be able to afford to get their pets spayed or neutered and this will decrease the overpopulation problem?
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I would just like to say that I am one of those people that cannot afford to have my cats spayed. My vet is asking for $200.00 per cat, and I have 2. I would appreciate any discount at this point. How can we reduce the dog and cat population if we cant afford to fix the problem?
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I used to wrok for a Vet Clinic and we had a yearly SPAY/Neuter Day where the cost was very low to anyone who needed the surgery done! It was extremely beneficial and I would like to see more Vets do this.
Of course I would. It has only positives and no negatives! It would be benificial to both the pet owners and the Vets! Vets should practice what they preach about spaying and neutering and make if affordable to everyone so we don't have an over-population of unwanted puppies and kittens that wind up in shelters.
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If the price of spay/neuters were less people on low income and rescues with limited budgets would get pets and feral animals spay/neutered. Even if the vets would band together and host a marathone spay/neuter 2 or 3 times a year and donate that time and effort to charities and then take it off their taxes at the end of the year. We are a small rescue that is run in our home and we are both disabled and on fixed incomes. We have 19 puppies under 2 weeks old, without the mother, that were dropped at the shelter as unwanted. We are bottle feeding them. When they are old enough to be spay/neutered it will cost us approx $950 and we don't have that kind of budget. This does not include the 23 adult dogs we have that also need spay/neuter ($1150). This does not include puppy shots, rabies shots, and any medical problems encountered in rescue of animals (mange, heartworm treatment, kennel cough, etc. Lowering the cost of spay/neuter for low income or fixed income or low budge rescues could do so much good for the animals in this world. Thank you for reading this and allowing time to see things from our view point.
I would ask vets to offer a discounted spay/neuter for low income and rescues with limited budgets. Also I would as vets to do marathon spay/neuter clinics and deduct it from their taxes at the end of the year.
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We Should provide a service for people that cant aford to have this service for there pets . ? Its not the pets fault . If we had it for lower income familys it would help provide a better life for there pets.
I would ask vets to lower the cost , For the sake of the animal. It may be a better life . And better for the animal.
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Yes pet care needs to be more afordable!!
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Low cost spay and neuter programs should exist everywhere, so that unwanted animals could be prevented and so that people could afford to make that happen!
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For those of us involved in rescuing unwanted and abandoned animals, the problem we encounter a lot is that any people would be willing to spay and neuter, if only it were cheaper. Many cannot afford it ... thus leaving their animal able to produce unwanted litters that swell the throng of the abandoned, many of whom will be euthanized before they ever have chance to see what a forever home feels like. Prevention is better than what purports to be a cure, the unnecessary euthanization of MILLIONS of poor animals every year is a disgusting part of American life and needs to be stopped. Spay and neuter programs need to be affordable for all, and vets willing to spay and neuter for rescues for free should be able to take a tax deduction for it, to lessen rescues costs also. Please, do something to help with this issue. All animals deserve to have the chance to live a long and hapy life. Preventing unwanted litters of puppies and kittens by spaying and neutering is one step that must be taken. Then there needs to be a way of stopping the puppy mills, allowing only certain puppies ina litter to remain intact for breeding purposes and insisting that all others are spayed/neutered. Thank you for your time reading this. Please help.
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most of us can not afford the high prices of spays/ neuters that vets are charging today. what is being charged is really outrageous.
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