Denver metro space nonprofit celebrates milestone
Denver Area nonprofit The Feline Fix hit an unlimited milestone this vacation season — it reached its 50,000th spay or neuter! That quantity could symbolize the variety of cats mounted at its clinic during the last 20 years, however extra importantly, it tells the story of the tons of of hundreds of undesirable litters which were prevented! It additionally celebrates the quantity of struggling eradicated by ensuring much less cats are born with out properties, residing on the streets and making an attempt to outlive.
The organization serves the Denver metro space’s most vulnerable cats. This consists of feral, free-roaming, and stray cats and kittens. It additionally gives care to owned cats in limited-income households. Caring and compassionate residents deliver neighborhood cats to The Feline Fix clinic in Commerce City to obtain a low-cost spay or neuter, a medical examination, and vaccinations. These neighborhood cats usually endure with diseases or medical points simply handled with the care and medicines they obtain from the clinic crew.
After receiving therapy and/or surgical procedure, feral cats are returned to their neighborhood, whereas young kittens are placed within the foster care program, the place they’re socialized and given what they should develop into nice companion animals. These kittens are young sufficient to be taught to belief people and be dealt with; the purpose being to take them off the streets altogether. Once older and social sufficient, they’re spayed or neutered and put up for adoption. Available kittens may be considered on The Feline Fix web site (thefelinefix.org), at a number of PetSmart shops in Castle Rock, Lakewood, and Riverpoint, and the Teddy Cat Cafe in Denver.
Two-month-old Squirt was spayed earlier than adoption and have become fortunate quantity 50,000! Squirt was initially delivered to the clinic with siblings when her colony caretaker realized the litter was extremely sick. Squirt contracted calicivirus and almost died. But resulting from a devoted foster volunteer and a partnering organization, Squirt was saved and given the life she deserves!
For greater than 20 years The Feline Fix has championed the welfare of all cats and depends on the generosity of others to serve free-roaming cats, rescue teams round Denver, and households with restricted earnings that will in any other case not have the ability to afford veterinary care for his or her cat. For extra info, go to www.thefelinefix.org.
