Fix West Texas was established simply more than 3 years ago with the objective of lowering the quantity of unexpected litters and euthanasia by supplying low-cost spay/neuter services.
When Fix West Texas began, it was a totally mobile center circumnavigating to under-served neighborhoods using these services. Since then, it has actually broadened quickly and now has an irreversible center where the organization supplies these services every day it is open. On top of this, Fix West Texas provides low-cost vaccinations, pay-what-you-can-afford alternatives, at-home parvo treatments, an animal kitchen, a cat and dog adoption program and is active throughout the neighborhood.
SURGICAL TREATMENT AND VACCINATIONS
Just this year, Fix West Texas has actually carried out 3,675 spay/neuter surgical treatments year-to-date. Fix West Texas has veterinarians take a trip into Midland from all over the United States. Those veterinarians are focused on high-volume spay/neuter surgical treatments. The organization likewise has actually supplied 15,252 vaccinations to help reduce illness, such as Parvo and Distemper, that prevail in the Midland/Odessa location. By using these vaccines at a low-cost and with pay-what-you-can-afford alternatives, Fix West Texas’ objective is to make vaccinations available for everybody in the neighborhood.
PARVO TREATMENT
Fix West Texas supplies an Only Hope Parvo Treatment program to those in requirement. Although avoidance is crucial, Fix West Texas likewise acknowledges a requirement to help in reducing the suffering of contaminated animals at a cost animal owners can manage. The charge is $150 for one dog and $250 for a whole litter.
FAMILY PET KITCHEN
The Fix West Texas animal kitchen is where individuals in the neighborhood have the ability to pick-up a bag of dog or cat food totally free monthly. The objective with this program is to help the animals in the neighborhood stay healthy however likewise to enable individuals short on funds an option to needing to surrender their animal to the shelter. The Fix West Texas animal kitchen lies around the back of the Fix West Texas building and is open throughout Fix West Texas running hours. Fix West Texas likewise disperses about 250 outside dog houses each winter season to help individuals keep their animals warm.
ADOPTIONS
Fix West Texas’s Home-to-Home Adoption Program was established in November of 2022 beginning with simply a couple of dogs. Since then, there have had almost 1,000 animals in the program. This program provides individuals in the neighborhood an option from surrendering their animal to the shelter and rather assists them keep the animal in their home while Fix West Texas make sterile/ neuters, immunizes and microchips the animal and discovers them a home.
Fix West Texas likewise conserves animals from the City of Midland Animal Services immediate list. Fix West Texas has actually saved 118 dogs and 375 cats from the shelter because the start of 2023, which have actually been put in foster houses, spay/neutered, immunized and microchipped, and embraced out to households in the neighborhood. This not just conserves these animals’ lives, however it likewise opens extra room at the shelter so the City does not need to eliminate as lots of animals to include more who are given up.
NEIGHBORHOOD
