Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League hosted its third TNVR (Trap-Neuter Vaccinate-Return) Spay Day on Aug. 5, during which 505 community cats received free TNVR surgery — adding to the over 4,000 free TNVR surgeries performed this year already. These surgeries included spay/neuter surgery, rabies vaccination, microchip and a tipped ear to signify a completed TNVR surgery.
“This has been our largest Spay Day of the three so far this year, the first to cross the 500-surgery mark,” Sue Berry, CEO of Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League, said in a news release. “Completing these spay/neuter surgeries on community cats will have a tremendous impact on the lives of many free-roaming cats in Palm Beach County and all of South Florida by controlling population growth and slowing the flood of homeless kittens into our shelters.”
The Peggy Adams medical team, along with University of Florida veterinary medicine students and professors and shelter veterinarians from across Florida, worked alongside volunteers and community cat trappers to make the event a success.
TNVR is a program in which free-roaming cats are humanely trapped, spayed/neutered, vaccinated for rabies and other feline viruses, ear-tipped, and then returned to their outdoor homes. TNVR has been shown to be the least costly, most effective and humane way of stabilizing and decreasing community cat populations.
