Every shelter across our fair province is always faced with hundreds of cats coming through their doors.
People are not spaying/neutering and letting their cats roam. The cat overpopulation crisis is nothing new but it seems to be getting worse even with all kinds of information on spaying and neutering available to them.
How are we as a society able to handle this problem? Ruff-Spots tries to promote the adoption of animals from shelters...there are many spayed/neutered cats already there, but we realize that people are still going to get their "free" kitten from the paper.
So, Ruff-Spots began with the mission of spaying/neutering shelter animals to make them more adoptable and to make a cut to the animal ovepopulation problem.
But, for those who already had unspayed/unneutered animals....we were of no help. But, as of July 2007 that has now changed. We now offer SNAP-NL, a spay/neuter income assistance program for our province. We have just started in the St. John's area to start things off. Applicants fill out a short application and if accepted (mainly due to funds) you will receive a voucher which you bring to the vet and pay a small fee for the spay/neuter. Ruff-Spots will pay the rest.
But like any charity, we need donations and your support with our fundraisers to keep this program going.
If you require further information on the program, please email snap-nl@nl.rogers.com
We all need to work together on this issue, province wide, to help the cats...both tame and feral!
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