WEST PALM BEACH, FL (December 20, 2022) Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League is holding a TNVR (Trap-Neuter-Vaccinate-Return) Spay Day on Saturday, January 7, 2023. The goal is to spay/neuter 500 Palm Beach County free-roaming community cats.
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.
The regular cost of spay/neuter services for one cat is $75; however, all community cats brought to Peggy Adams for this event with be sterilized and vaccinated free of charge. Peggy Adams has traps available to loan for the event. All cats must come in a trap and traps should be covered with a sheet or a towel with one cat per trap (no cats in carriers can be accepted).
Online registration is recommended and will create a faster check-in experience. Walk-ins will be accepted if space allows. For online registration visit PeggyAdams.org/spayday. For more information email TNVR@PeggyAdams.org or call (561) 686-9797.
Every cat will receive all the following services for free on Spay Day: spay/neuter, FVRCP and rabies vaccines, microchip, and left ear tip. Palm Beach County Ordinance 98-22 requires cats to be spayed or neutered and microchipped by four months of age.
Peggy Adams hopes this TNVR Spay Day will help get ahead of Kitten Season- the time from early spring through late fall when cats give birth to countless kittens. Kitten Season creates a strain on shelters, including Peggy Adams, due to the hundreds of newborn and young kittens coming into their programs. This results in the need for increased staffing and foster families.
The team at Peggy Adams will be joined by Operation Catnip Gainesville for Spay Day. Operation Catnip’s life-saving work improves the lives of cats and the communities in which they live by spaying, neutering, and vaccinating free-roaming cats, preventing the births of kittens, mentoring other programs around the country, and training veterinarians to save America’s community cats. To learn more visit https://ocgainesville.org/
About Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League:
Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League provides critical services to more than 34,000 animals each year and collaborates with local area rescues to expand the lifesaving work in Palm Beach County.
The Mission of the Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League is to provide shelter to lost, homeless, and unwanted animals, to provide spay and neuter and other medical services for companion animals, and to care for, protect, and find quality homes for homeless and neglected companion animals, to advocate animal welfare, community involvement, and education to further the bond between people and animals. Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League has a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator, America’s largest independent charity navigator. Peggy Adams is an independent nonprofit animal rescue organization operating continuously since 1925. For more information and to donate, please visit PeggyAdams.org
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Media Contact: Cara MacVane, Email; 561.685.2342
Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League Contact: Lauren Ellis, Email; (Office) 561.472.8845
