01/14/2025
UPDATE ON THIS EVENT!!!! THE DATE IS BEING CHANGED.
Due to the ZERO degree weather forecast for Monday and Tuesday, we are postponing this event until Sunday, January 26th. It won't be safe enough to trap or release any post surgical cat in that temperature.
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Cat Lovers REJOICE!
We have exciting news for all of our cat loving friends. We will be welcoming in 2025 with a HAPPY NEUTER YEAR event to fix as many bachelor cats as we can before mating season begins!
Happy Neuter Year will be a FREE event that will provide the sterilization surgery and a rabies vaccine for any outdoor Tomcat that you know needs fixed (this includes ferals AND friendly community cats).
This event will be held Sunday January 26th 2025, with first come-first serve intakes from 8:30a-10:30am. The location will be the SOS of Ohio Spay and Neuter Clinic at 3500 East Livingston Ave, Columbus, Ohio.
RULES:
This event is for MALE CATS ONLY. All cats will receive an EAR TIP and a rabies vaccine since this event is for outdoor cats. There will be NO EXCEPTIONS TO THE EAR TIP RULE. If you come in and request no ear tip, you will be scheduled on another day. This event is for a neuter surgery and rabies vaccine ONLY. We will not be providing any other services on this day.
Because people will inevitably comment with the questions "why aren't you doing girls?", here is why-
1) Happy Spay Year does not have the same ring to it.
2) Girls have more variables when it comes to performing their surgeries (and therefore take longer on the operating table), and this event will need to move quickly since there will be a high demand.
3) Providing surgery to outdoor female cats is weather dependent, and it isn't always safe to shave their entire abdomen if it is going to be less than 25 degrees outside.
**If you are a trapper, and you catch a female instead of a male, the surgery will be done if the cat is truly feral. If the cat is a friendly outdoor female who was mistaken for a male, we will either hold her until the following day or reschedule you for reason #2 above.
The goal of this event is the same as every day other day at our hospital. We are working to reduce unwanted litters, keeping kittens off the streets and out of our local shelters. We hope to see all of you who feed an outdoor male cat, and thank you for supporting this cause!