9 Lives Cat Rescue honoring Spay/Neuter Awareness month
Published 9:40 am Wednesday, February 8, 2023
9 Lives Cat Rescue prepares to honor Spay/Neuter Awareness Month by having an adoption day this weekend and a spay/neuter day at the end of this month.
The organization run by Natascha Techen offers safe spay and sterilize services at a less expensive rate in order to help preserve the roaming population in the city of Oxford.
9 Lives will have an adoption day on Feb. 11 with an option of over 10-15 cats that are available to adopt. The “Adoption Caturday” will occur at PetSmart in Oxford on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Fees to adopt a cat on this day are $70 that includes correct spay/neuter and vaccinations. Potential adopters are needed to complete the adoption survey. Volunteers will likewise do their finest to match a prospective cat-owner to the ideal cat due to comprehending the cats’ characters. There are likewise foster choices available.
9 Lives and center Bottletree Animal Hospital will have a Cat Spay/Neuter Day on Feb. 26 where the cost to guarantee the treatment sits at $35 for each cat. A $10 non-refundable deposit is needed for reserving functions online and the deposit will go towards the $35 cost.
At one time, the Ole Miss school had more than 200 roaming cats. However, with the help of 9 Lives, the roaming population on school decreased, due to correct spay/neuter treatments and adoption opportunities. The treatment of capturing cats, supplying them with correct surgical treatments, and returning them to where they were discovered, is the one strategy that Techen says keeps the cat population at bay.
With that, the significance of spay/neuter day is one that Techen firmly insists upon supplying the neighborhood for several years to come.
“When you think about the number of animals that are euthanized, it’s usually about 70 to 90 percent,” she said. “So that means there’s a large number of unwanted litters of kittens and even puppies.”
By getting cats purified and sterilized, the variety of cats getting euthanized reductions. In a litter, there can be as much as 30 cats.
“We’ve been doing this since 2006,” Techen said. “We had about 100-200 animals per year and it goes up and down. Recently, we did about 400 animals, including nightlife animals, but we did it with all of the community service that we provide such as providing low cost spay and neuter surgeries throughout the year.”
9 Lives Cat Rescue is likewise preparing an adoption week in March to continue the look for excellent houses for the neighborhood’s community cats.
For more info contact 9 Lives Cat Rescue on Facebook. To contribute, send by mail to 9 Lives Cat Rescue, P.O Box 2006, Oxford, MS 38655.
