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Jan. 30, 2024, 12:55 p.m. ET
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A New Jersey animal shelter is inviting cat lovers to call a feral feline after an ex for Valentine’s Day — after which have it spayed or neutered.
“Neuter your ex for Valentine’s Day,” the Homeward Bound Pet Adoption Center in Gloucester Township, New Jersey, introduced in a hissterical promotion.
The cost for clawing again on the former romantic companions is $50.
“Because some things shouldn’t breed,” the middle stated on Instagram in a purrrfect slogan for the drive.
“The cat will then be spayed or neutered before being released back to their colony as part of our trap-neuter-return (TNR) program,” it stated.
“TNR is a vital component of feral cat population control as it breaks the breeding cycle and stops the birth of unwanted cats in our community,” the South Jersey facility continued.
“Your donation ensures we can offer spay/neuter surgery at a reduced cost for community cats and their caregivers in need,” it added.
Eric Schwartz, Homeward Bound’s director of growth, stated greater than 600 cats have been fastened and launched via this system in 2023.
People curious about shaming their exes for a superb trigger might fill out a donation type and choose the “in honor” possibility to finish the dastardly dedication.
Schwartz informed the Philadelphia Inquirer that Homeward Bound plans to supply each donor who requests one with a photograph of the fastened cats named after their exes.
There’s additionally an choice to let a person know that you just donated.
“One woman sent the names of her three ex-husbands and wrote, ‘I should’ve learned after the first one,’” Schwartz informed the oulet.
So far, the marketing campaign has raised over $2,000, which can cowl about 40 feline spayings and neuterings, he stated.
“When you say ‘let’s neuter an ex,’ everybody has the name of a person pop into their head,” Schwartz added. “We’re happy to bring some closure while doing something important.”
Homeward Bound isn’t the primary animal shelter to make use of Valentine’s Day for fundraising and permitting these unfortunate in like to vent.
The San Antonio Zoo has stated that in alternate for a donation, it might title a cockroach after your ex – and feed it to an animal, in response to CNN.
In 2021, the Lexington Humane Society in Kentucky introduced that for $10, individuals might have names of their selection written inside a litter field for cats to do their business on.
For $5, a cat on the Rhode Island SPCA additionally will poop in your ex’s title.
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