WEST PALM BEACH, FL (July 28, 2023) Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League will hold its third TNVR (Trap-Neuter-Vaccinate-Return) Spay Day on Saturday, August 5, 2023. The goal is to TNVR over 500 community cats in South Florida. These surgeries include spay/neuter surgery, rabies vaccination, microchip, and a tipped ear to signify a completed TNVR surgery.
A team of veterinarians will perform an average of 100 surgeries per hour. This community TNVR Spay Day will bring veterinary professionals across Florida to perform surgeries. Working alongside Peggy Adams’ staff will be volunteers with duties throughout the event, including check-in, surgery prep, instrument sanitization, cat & trap organization, recovery, and more.
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.
“We are looking forward to another successful TNVR Spay Day,” said Sue Berry, CEO of Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League. “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 regular cost of spay/neuter services for one cat is $75; however, all community cats brought to Peggy Adams for this event will be sterilized and vaccinated free of charge. Peggy Adams has traps available to loan (with a refundable deposit) 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 561.530.6057.
TNVR Spay Day is an important event as we are in 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.
