We complete 2500 surgeries each year, mostly at no fee to caretaker thanks to generous donors. Our mission is to provide medical services to unowned cats and to assist caretakers and trappers with food and other supplies. We provide services to over 2600 cats/year, usually at no cost to caretakers or trappers. We have provided these services since 2016, and each year we increase the numbers of c
ats helped. Our founder and President is Dr. Linda East, who is also the Chief Veterinarian for the CatsFirst Spay Clinic. Most of her time is donated. We assign all surgery days to approved trappers. The majority of the ferals we spay/neuter come to us in this manner. We do not take appointments from the public or spay/neuter pet cats because, unfortunately, we are a small clinic and do not have staffing or funding to expand. Our goal is to offer services to the underserved feral community and to continue to do so. Our budget for accomplishing our goal of providing free medical service to ferals is $140,000/year. We have the same expenses as any other spay clinic (staff, rent, medication, supplies, utilities, food) but without a paying clientele. Yet if we set surgery fees for ferals, the most needy would not be done at all. We also provide veterinary care and hospitalization for ferals that are ill or injured if they will allow treatment. We have removed eyes, paid for orthopedic surgeries at other clinics, treated wounds, given antibiotics, and attended to the various maladies feral cats are prone too. This gives us tremendous satisfaction, knowing the fate of these cats without veterinary help. We are grateful for community cat helpers who donate, making our services possible.
