VT-CAN! Spay/Neuter Clinic

06/04/2026

What does $85 actually buy?

At VT-CAN!, an $85 cat spay/neuter appointment includes:

🐾 Spay/neuter surgery
💉 Rabies vaccine
💉 FVRCP vaccine
🪳 Flea and ear mite treatment
✂️ Nail trim
👂 Ear cleaning

For many Vermont families, access to affordable veterinary care can make the difference between getting a pet fixed and delaying care.

Affordable spay/neuter doesn't just prevent unwanted litters. It improves animal health, reduces suffering, and helps keep pets with the people who love them.

💙 Voting for the Seven Daysies is open through June 15:
https://ballot.sevendaysvt.com/services/best-nonprofit-organization

06/03/2026

The top vote-getter in the Seven Days Daysies contest nonprofit category wins $10,000! Please vote for VT-CAN! and help us keep our fees as low as possible. Click here to vote: https://ballot.sevendaysvt.com/services/best-nonprofit-organization

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06/02/2026

💙 Vote here: https://ballot.sevendaysvt.com/services/best-nonprofit-organization

VT-CAN! has been nominated for Best Non-Profit in Vermont in the Seven Daysies. The winning non-profit receives $10,000!

Every day, we see the impact that affordable veterinary care has on pets, families, rescues, and communities across Vermont. From preventing unwanted litters to helping people access care that might otherwise be out of reach, this work is only possible because of the incredible support of our clients, volunteers, donors, and community partners.

If VT-CAN! has helped you, your family, your shelter, your rescue, or your community, we'd be honored to have your vote.

💙 Vote here: https://ballot.sevendaysvt.com/services/best-nonprofit-organization

Voting is open through June 15.

05/31/2026

Every kitten started with an unfixed cat.

When people think about animal overpopulation, they often picture crowded shelters, rescue groups struggling to find space, or kittens looking for homes.

But the problem starts much earlier.

One spay/neuter surgery can prevent generations of kittens from being born into a world where homes, resources, and veterinary care are already stretched thin.

Affordable spay/neuter is the most effective way to reduce animal suffering because it prevents the problem before it starts.

That's why VT-CAN! exists.

Prevention works.

05/29/2026

It takes a team.

When people think about affordable spay/neuter, they usually picture the veterinarian performing surgery (a vital role with tremendous skill and responsibility!).

What they don't always see are the volunteers washing laundry, the recovery monitoring, the transporters bringing animals from across the state, the scheduling and paperwork, the veterinary technicians preparing patients and assisting throughout the day, and the countless little tasks that keep everything moving.

More than 25 cats and dogs can move through a single VT-CAN! clinic day.

Affordable spay/neuter doesn't happen by accident. It happens because people care enough to keep showing up for animals.

Seven Daysies voting begins June 2. If you'd like to support VT-CAN!, we'd be honored to have your vote when voting opens.

https://www.sevendaysvt.com/.../meet-the-finalists-for.../

05/23/2026

Morgan has been part of VT-CAN! for nearly 10 years, meaning she’s been here for over half the life of the clinic itself. 🐾

Most clinic days, you’ll find her behind the glass in pre-op moving at what honestly feels like superhuman speed.

Pre-op medications. Vaccines. Microchips. Monitoring sedated cats. Expressing bladders. (What a sight to behold that is. 😅) Keeping everything organized and moving smoothly through surgery prep.

Most cats are cooperative and easy to handle, but every so often, a particularly spicy cat decides they have very strong opinions about neuter day.

That’s usually when the rest of us pause and go:
“...is Morgan good back there?”

And almost always, she’s already handled it before anyone can even linger on the question.

Morgan is unbelievably dexterous, efficient, and skilled at what she does. She makes one of the hardest and most physically demanding jobs in the clinic look effortless while helping keep both cats and staff safe every single clinic day.

VT-CAN would not be what it is today without her.

https://www.sevendaysvt.com/.../meet-the-finalists-for.../

05/20/2026

Today, we wanted to start introducing the tiny, but mighty team 💙

We thought there was no better place to start than with our fearless leader: Pamela.

In 2008, Pamela founded VT-CAN! with a vision of making affordable spay/neuter accessible across Vermont. Since then, this small clinic has performed more than 52,000 spay/neuter surgeries for cats and dogs across the state.

If you’ve ever interacted with Pamela, you already know she somehow manages to balance leadership, compassion, problem solving, and humor, often all at the same time. She’s also known for reheating the same bagel at least 3 times every clinic day because she keeps getting pulled away helping animals and people.

We’re incredibly honored to have been nominated for Seven Daysies Best Non-Profit in Vermont! Voting begins June 2nd and runs through June 15th.

https://www.sevendaysvt.com/social-club/promotion/meet-the-finalists-for-the-2026-seven-daysies-awards/

05/18/2026

We’ve had a huge increase in people visiting our page since being named a Top 5 finalist for Best Non-Profit in Vermont in the Seven Days Daysies Awards.

Thank you so much to everyone who nominated and voted for us!

VT-CAN is Vermont’s only standalone non-profit high-volume spay/neuter clinic. We are focused on keeping veterinary care accessible and affordable.

Last year alone, approximately 1 in every 3 cats and dogs altered through low-cost spay/neuter programs in Vermont were done through VT-CAN.

The other 2 out of 3 were spread across every other low-cost program and organization in the entire state combined. For a single non-profit clinic in a small state, that’s a huge amount of impact!

And it only happens because of the incredible support from our staff, volunteers, transporters, rescuers, fosters, donors, and community members across Vermont ❤️

That impact means:
🐱 Fewer unwanted litters
🐶 Fewer animals entering shelters and rescues
💉 More vaccinated animals in our communities
🚑 Less suffering before it starts

Final voting begins June 2, and over the next few weeks we’re excited to share more about:
• the people behind the clinic
• the animals we help
• what high-volume spay/neuter work actually looks like
• the rescues, transporters, fosters, and community members who make this possible
• and why accessible veterinary care matters so much in Vermont

Whether you’ve used VT-CAN, volunteered, transported animals, trapped community cats, fostered, donated, or simply supported our work, thank you for being part of this mission 🐾

04/20/2026

VT-CAN! could win $10,000 with your help! We need you to nominate us for Best Nonprofit so we advance to the next round (and then we will need help getting the word out to vote for us).

How to nominate (by May 3):
1. Go to: https://ballot.sevendaysvt.com/services/best-nonprofit-organization (make sure to nominate us in the nonprofit category- no other category wins money)
2. Click “Nominate Your Favorite Cause!”
3. Type in VT-CAN! (or VT-CAN) and submit
How it works:
The nominees with the most write-ins advance to the second round (June 2–15), when readers vote to determine the winner. Winners are announced in early August.
The Best Nonprofit receives a $10,000 donation from the Vermont Community Foundation.

Thank you!

Nominate your favorite Vermont businesses, people and places April 15-May 3, 2026.

02/19/2026

Many rabies clinics across the state!