Doniphan Community Spay and Neuter Effort

11/09/2024

Big shout-out to Healing Hearts Rescue MN for helping us spay and neuter animals over here in Missouri. Thanks to them we could organize our 2nd Pittie and Bully Clinic. Every dog counts, so please consider donating to them if you are able to! Sorry to those who couldn't get their dog in this time.

16/08/2024

We're full. Thanks.
Hi friends! Healing Hearts is sponsoring a spay day. If you have a female bully or pittie mix that needs to be spayed please reach out. Low income households, pound dogs and strays get preference. Only female dogs, no cats atm. Sorry.

05/06/2024

Update: Owner found.

Horse found on Highway 142 West near the clinic.
It's a senior red dun mare with a blaze. Please spread the word.
She's being kept safe at the property here until the owner is found.

13/02/2024

Friends, we don't ask for much except the following: Be on time, (not early!) read your paperwork, close the gate behind you properly, don't show up unannounced demanding to see the vet, be courteous to the staff.
During any given week we will have several people showing up for pick-up or drop-off at random times, whenever they please, instead of at the agreed upon time. WE DO NOT HAVE A RECEPTIONIST. So when you just randomly show up and bang on all the doors you can find, someone has to step away from surgery to attend to you. Maybe you have to wait a couple of minutes, we will come check. A full time receptionist would take out 30-45K out of our budget. Do you know how many animals we can fix for that??? So, please be respectful. Show up when we ask you to.

09/02/2024

Edit: The event is full. For any inquiries please message us, we don't monitor all the comments. Current wait list for female dogs is several months.

Hi friends, we have a few spots available for reduced cost surgeries for next week. Cats will be on Tuesday, dogs Wednesday and Thursday. Co-pay is as follows: Male dogs 150$, Female cats 100$, Male cats 50$. Message us if you want a spot, my wait list is too long to ask everyone.
As usual, if you have regular income, please consider leaving these spots for those less fortunate. If you cannot afford the co-pay, please sit tight, we are working on more funding.

01/02/2024

Another successful day of helping animals. We finished today's distribution of Nexguard Plus at 5pm at the baseball field. We managed to hand-out all of the donated supplies. Keep an eye on our page for future events and news! Sorry if we missed you!

01/02/2024

We're ending at 5pm.
We just found out that we have smaller dog sizes too! Weigh your dogs, fill out your waiver and come get it! We're in the parking lot next to KCs on the Current (by the baseball field!) Share!

28/01/2024

We're done for today. Thanks all!

We have smaller sizes too!

The free Nexgard distribution will take place this Thursday starting at 9:00 AM in the Doniphan baseball field parking lot. We will likely be there all day until supply runs out.

IMPORTANT: You must print, fill out and bring this document, one copy for each dog. Dogs over 66 pounds only but don't bring the dog. https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=346354861564110&set=a.117424941123771

27/01/2024

This is the waiver that everyone has to fill out to receive the Nexguard for large dogs from the previous post. Please like, comment and share so we know that people are seeing this!

12/01/2024

Edit3 It's's over now. Thanks everyone and THANK YOU to the Boehringer Ingelheim Cares Foundation who, joining forces with Greater Good Charities, generously provided nearly 2 million doses of NexGard® PLUS to support lifesaving animal efforts across the country.

Edit2: Thursday the 1st of February in the Baseball field parking lot in Doniphan. Bring your paperwork, don't bring your dog. We will be there starting 9:00 AM

Edit:
1)We will perform the distribution this coming week somewhere in Doniphan. LARGE DOGS ONLY 66+ pounds.
2) We are looking for a large parking lot where we can park and distribute.
3) We are looking for a few volunteers who will help distribute and check paperwork and hand out meds.
4) Do not bring your dog to the distribution. Bring a filled-out copy of the liability waiver for EACH dog that you want medication for. OK to pick up for others. Please help friends and neighbors with filling out paperwork.

Hello Friends,
we have received a generous donation of Nexgard Plus, a medicine for dogs that targets fleas, ticks, heart worms and intestinal worms. We have the size for 66lbs-132 dogs only at this time. This chew is given once a month by mouth. Dogs have to be older than 8 weeks. We will be handing this out for free. You will receive up to 4 doses for each eligible dog, no more, so this will be 4 months of protection. Dr. Thompson will oversee the distribution and reserves the right to distribute/refuse distribution at her discretion. We don't make an income limitation at this time, but we might if we see that we run out of doses fast.

1) We will announce a meeting day and location (somewhere with a big parking lot) sometime to take place in the last week of January.
2) You will have to sign a liability waiver stating that you accept the medicine at your own risk, as we are not able to provide a physical exam or heart worm test with it. The medicine is not recommended for dogs with a history of seizures. Please research using the link below.
3) We don't have anything for small dogs, for cats or for puppies. We will not offer vaccines or anything else.
4) You can comment here with how many dogs you have so we can start counting doses.

https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/fda/fdaDrugXsl.cfm?setid=1eb7bc46-cac9-47d2-bbdc-6801690dfbc4&type=display

31/12/2023

Another successful TNR in Doniphan. Our volunteers caught and transported the cats, Thompson Veterinary Service did the surgeries and donated the rabies shots. Our wonderful donors helped fund everything. Thanks to: Susan Hendrickson donation, Aloma and Richard Desich transportation, Valarie Kurre donation, Sarah and Melissa Welch donation and transportation, Lisa Gallina with FOR Animals STL donation, Lisa Ball coordination and recovery, Penny Jenkins donation, Jeannie Dawson donation, Kim Brooks with Hearts for Rescue facilitation, Friends in St.Jacob, Illinois donation.

20/12/2023

Tagged by Happy Tails Rescue

Special Adoption Announcement

Are you someone who is feeling a little bit lonely and anxious? Maybe your companion has passed away and it just wasn't the right time to look for another dog yet? Could you use a friend who loves you unconditionally?

If that's you, you have to meet Abbie!

Abbie is an old soul in a young body. She is a beautiful English Bulldog mix, with a very calm temperament. Abbie has so much love to give, when I hug her, it heals my soul a little bit and it calms my heart. I know she will do this for you too.

Abbie will be fully vaccinated and spayed and can be adopted through Hearts for Rescue. HTTPS://heartsforrescue.rescuegrouos.org

20/12/2023

Hi Doniphan Friends!

It's cold outside and we are trying to help the stray cat populations in and around town. We are currently raising money for fixing the Forge colony and the Vitronics colony. The Casey's colony should follow soon. We need to raise 1500$ to spay 15 cats.

Of course we understand that $$ are short around Christmas but if you can chip in at all, it would go directly towards spaying and neutering these cats.
If you can't donate $$, perhaps you have traps, cages, shelters or food? Or maybe you can encourage businesses you frequent or people you know, to donate.

Thank you all so much and Merry Christmas.
Please share!

30/11/2023

Hello Friends!
We are closely working with Pound Pals and they are absolutely amazing. If you can help at all, please donate through their page. To those of you who already have, a heartfelt thank you! We have fixed hundreds of dogs and cats already but we have several requests from folks needing help with stray cats in Doniphan this winter. If you can't contribute $$, perhaps you can loan a trap, help transport? Thank you, thank you, thank you.

IN A YEAR OF BAD NEWS, A RAY OF HOPE!

This Giving Tuesday, help a hopeful new initiative to succeed!

Years ago, we received a frantic plea from a woman in a town far down Highway 21 in the Missouri Ozarks. She’d found a severely injured cat and didn’t have any money for a vet. A local child had been beating cats with a baseball bat. Sadly, Maverick was beyond help and we paid the veterinarian to euthanize him. Thus began a relationship between Pound Pals and the town of Doniphan. We learned that dogfighting rings flourish and stray cats are everywhere. While some people abuse the cats, others agonize over the suffering they see. Our friend took in too many to her small home. People knew she took in cats, so they brought others. Once a child took her a sick kitten she’d been carrying around in her backpack. Our friend got rides to Poplar Bluff, over 30 minutes away, to get cats spayed or neutered, and your donations paid the vets. While we have lower-cost options in St. Louis, the plight of rural cats haunted us. Rural vets rarely have the option of subsidizing care and are often overworked. If there are local rescues, they are overwhelmed. We helped out when we could.

But always the requests from Doniphan continued, even as our treasurer reminded us that “We can’t afford to fix every cat in Doniphan!”

But this year, a miracle appeared: the Doniphan Community Spay and Neuter Effort. This vet is not low-cost for us, but she has low overhead, and her prices are reasonable. What’s more, she can work on up to twenty cats in one day. People with colonies previously had to bring no more than three cats to Poplar Bluff on one visit. In the meantime, others were getting pregnant. This year, we’ve sponsored two cat days in Doniphan, with more on the schedule. One was for a single colony. For the other, our previously mentioned helper got 19 cats together, strays and owned cats, and now they are all fixed.

We are on fire with this initiative but sponsoring a cat day for 15-20 cats costs us between $1500 and $2000. Through October, our total for this year of spays and neuters is 367. That’s 327 cats and 40 dogs who will no longer reproduce. We want to make it 500 spays and neuters by the end of the year, and with your help and the Doniphan project, it’s looking possible. We don't want to stop until Doniphan is no longer notorious in the rescue community. Won't you help us this Giving Tuesday?

To donate through our website: poundpals.org
PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/biz/fund?id=GZVQP7BPUNYRN
To mail a check: Pound Pals, PO Box 430144, St Louis, MO 63143-9998

26/11/2023

To every breeder in Ripley. If you really are an animal lover, stop adding to the misery. Thank you.

22/11/2023

Spay appointment for a female dog available for this afternoon. We had some no-shows. Message us if you're interested.