Miami-Dade County Animal Services Department (Animal Services), Friends of Miami Animals Foundation Inc. (FoMA), Slomba Shelter Solutions and Wings of Rescue announce the launch of Fix Your Pet, Fix Our Community, a mission to supply free spay and neuter companies throughout choose weekends in November and December of 2023.
Fix Your Pet, Fix Your Community will present free companies for greater than 1,300 of Miami-Dade County’s dogs and cats over the course of two months, serving to to alleviate our group’s animal overpopulation. As Animal Services is at most inhabitants capability with roughly 1,000 pets underneath its care, and native rescue teams and non-profits are additionally overwhelmed with surrendered and located pets, Miami-Dade County has run out of area for homeless pets.
“While tackling the current crisis will require a multi-prong approach, providing access to spay/neuter services is a key step in our plan to address the pet overpopulation in our county,” mentioned Animal Services Director Annette Jose. “Additionally, a sterilized pet is a healthier, happier pet, and more likely to remain in its home over time due to improved behavior and health factors.”
Services shall be offered on the Miami-Dade County Animal Services Department Pet Adoption and Protection Center in Doral on the Wellness Clinic Animal Services, Community Cat Center (Cutler Bay Clinic), and on the Miami-Dade County Homestead Spay/Neuter Clinic at Harris Field.
The following are the scheduled dates:
November
• Saturday, November eleventh, 2023: (Dogs solely)
Pet Adoption & Protection Center, Wellness Clinic: 3599 NW 79 Ave, Doral, FL 33122
• Sunday, November twelfth, 2023: (Cats solely)
Pet Adoption & Protection Center, Wellness Clinic: 3599 NW 79 Ave, Doral, FL 33122
• Saturday, November twenty fifth, 2023: Operation Pit Stop (Dogs & Cats)
Pet Adoption & Protection Center, Wellness Clinic: 3599 NW 79 Ave, Doral, FL 33122
• Saturday, November twenty sixth, 2023: Operation Pit Stop (Dogs & Cats)
Pet Adoption & Protection Center, Wellness Clinic: 3599 NW 79 Ave, Doral, FL 33122
December
• Saturday, December 2nd, 2023: Operation Pit Stop (Dogs solely)
Community Cat Center: 10700 SW 211 St, Cutler Bay, FL 33189
Pet Adoption & Protection Center, Wellness Clinic: 3599 NW 79 Ave, Doral, FL 33122
• Sunday, December third, 2023: Operation Pit Stop (Dogs solely)
Community Cat Center: 10700 SW 211 St, Cutler Bay, FL 33189
Pet Adoption & Protection Center, Wellness Clinic: 3599 NW 79 Ave, Doral, FL 33122
• Saturday, December ninth, 2023: Operation Pit Stop (Dogs solely)
Community Cat Center: 10700 SW 211 St, Cutler Bay, FL 33189
• Sunday, December tenth, 2023: Operation Pit Stop (Dogs solely)
Community Cat Center: 10700 SW 211 St, Cutler Bay, FL 33189
• Saturday, December sixteenth, 2023: Operation Pit Stop (Dogs solely)
Community Cat Center: 10700 SW 211 St, Cutler Bay, FL 33189
Pet Adoption & Protection Center, Wellness Clinic: 3599 NW 79 Ave, Doral, FL 33122
• Sunday, December seventeenth, 2023: Operation Pit Stop (Dogs solely)
Community Cat Center: 10700 SW 211 St, Cutler Bay, FL 33189
Pet Adoption & Protection Center, Wellness Clinic: 3599 NW 79 Ave, Doral, FL 33122
• Friday, December twenty second, 2023: Operation Pit Stop (Dogs solely)
Pet Adoption & Protection Center, Wellness Clinic: 3599 NW 79 Ave, Doral, FL 33122
• Saturday, December twenty third, 2023: Operation Pit Stop (Dogs solely)
Pet Adoption & Protection Center, Wellness Clinic: 3599 NW 79 Ave, Doral, FL 33122
Additional dates and areas could also be scheduled. For updates and appointments contact 3-1-1, companies are available by appointment ONLY. In addition to the free sterilization surgical procedure, pets will even be eligible to obtain free vaccinations, and microchipping, which shall be required for pets who bear sterilization who are usually not but microchipped.
The portion of the mission occurring in December shall be targeted on spay and neuter for 35 lb.+ bully-breed dogs particularly, and shall be branded as “Operation Pit Stop,” bringing again the profitable program carried out by FoMA, Animal Services, and Wings of Rescue in July of 2022 which sterilized 500+ dogs.
“The vast majority of homeless dogs surrendered to our county shelter are bully breed dogs. This population is at the highest-risk due to several factors, and so we are using the Operation Pit Stop platform created in conjunction with our good friends at Wings of Rescue to encourage bully-breed owners especially to do their part and sterilize their dogs,” mentioned Yolanda Berkowitz, Founder & President of FoMA.
According to a 2021 PetLevel examine, unspayed feminine bully breed dogs usually have litters of 10 or extra puppies therefore contributing to pet overpopulation. Bully breeds additionally face further obstacles to adoption together with longer shelter stays and housing limitations which discourages adopters from adopting massive dogs or ends in homeowners surrendering their dogs.
About Miami-Dade County Animal Services Department
Every 12 months, Miami-Dade County Animal Services Department (Animal Services) supplies care and refuge for 28,000 to 30,000 misplaced and deserted dogs and cats. Every day, Animal Services employees works diligently to search out life-long houses for these deserted animals by facilitating onsite adoptions, internet hosting offsite adoptions at occasions and areas all through the group, and dealing collaboratively with rescue organizations, volunteers and adoption companions. For extra info go to, www.miamidade.gov/animals and/or observe Animal Services on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @adoptmiamipets.
About Friends of Miami Animals
Friends of Miami Animals Foundation’s mission is to save lots of and enhance the lives of homeless pets in Miami Dade County by training, advocacy, monetary assist and elevated consciousness. FoMA was based in 2016 from a want to assist scale back pet overpopulation and alleviate the underlying causes of pet homelessness, comparable to undesirable puppies and kittens, pet abandonment, and different points that carry pets into shelters and drive pet homeowners to give up their pets as a consequence of momentary hardships. From funding free or low-cost medical companies by numerous companions to pets residing in low-income households, to serving to Miami-Dade County Animal Services with enrichment for shelter pets by funding enhanced play yards to permit massive dogs to get out in play teams and creating their Annual Volunteer Fair, our focus is to help extra homeless pets by working intently with Miami-Dade County Animal Services and different teams. Learn extra at www.fomapets.org.
About Wings of Rescue
Wings of Rescue is a donation-supported charity that flies homeless, at-risk shelter pets from catastrophe areas to shelters with available area with out displacing any regionally sheltered pets. Additionally, yearly Wings of Rescue planes ship 1000’s of kilos of humanitarian and veterinary support to communities and pets in want. Since its founding in 2012, Wings of Rescue pilots have safely and effectively flown over 69,000 pets on to new lives and delivered almost 900,000 kilos of humanitarian and veterinary reduction provides to catastrophe victims. Wings of Rescue has additionally expanded its mission to stopping the inflow of pets coming into shelter programs by its Operation Pit Stop program which has offered free spay/neuters surgical procedures for 1000’s of owned bully breed dogs – the dogs who take up a big share of America’s shelter kennel area. For extra info, go to www.wingsofrescue.org.
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