04/21/2025
While others shutdown, No Kill Glynn County continued to offer TNVR (trap/neuter/vaccinate/return) services at the rate of approximately 500 per year. As long as First Coast No More Homeless Pets continued to operate, so did we. We were fortunate to be able to keep going because the cats had no clue about the pandemic!
In 2024, we doubled our TNVR efforts, and while others in rescue are predicting a horrific “kitten season,” we are cautiously optimistic that we will see fewer homeless kittens this year!
We’d like to take this opportunity to thank all who have helped and supported our efforts! Without YOU, none of this would be possible.
Glynn County Animal Services has evolved into a shelter we can be proud of. Are we there yet? No, but we’re way ahead of where we were in 2013 when the average intake was around 3,000 cats & dogs with 2,000 of those being killed. Read that again …
Let’s continue to spay/neuter and work toward the day when we only need our municipal shelter for emergency placement!
The pandemic’s cruel aftermath: progressive decline in spay/neuter capacity
More bad news for spay/neuter capacity in the US. The post-pandemic veterinary workforce shortage, funding issues, and other factors are still eroding surgery capacity at low-cost spay/neuter clinics.
Clinics have still not recovered to their pre-pandemic capacity, leading to a projected shortfall of 3.7 million surgeries so far. And this doesn't even include the compounding effect of those intact animals producing litters of their own.
The continued decline in low-cost spay-neuter year over year impedes access to basic preventive pet healthcare and threatens to undermine decades of progress in controlling pet overpopulation.
Read to complete article: Read to complete article: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/veterinary-science/articles/10.3389/fvets.2025.1558235/full
Glynn County animal advocates working together to embrace the No Kill philosophy. This must stop! Glynn County is located on the coast of Georgia, U.S.A.
