Spay Neuter Network

Our goal is to end unnecessary euthanasia and empower residents in needy Texas communities to care for the animals that share their homes and streets by making spaying, neutering, vaccines and microchipping widely available to all, regardless of wealth or income. We see to create safer, more compassionate communities for both people and animals and to get the problem of pet overpopulation Fixed, For Good.

Spay Neuter Network works to achieve our goals by:
1 - offering free and low-cost spay/neuter surgeries and vaccinations to impoverished, low-income, and under-served pet owners;
2 - removing the barriers to veterinary care by bringing care directly into the communities with greatest need using our animal transports and our Mobile Animal Surgical Hospital;
3 - building relationships and educating the citizens of North Texas on responsible pet ownership through door-to-door community outreach;
4 - educating children on pet safety and responsible pet ownership through partnerships with their schools;
5 - developing innovative programs that keep pets in homes and out of shelters, including a new resource call center in 2020 that works with desperate pet owners who need to surrender a dog or cat. In the first six weeks of this program, we were able to keep 67% of the pets involved from entering the Dallas shelter by putting owners in touch with rescue groups, foster families, pet behavior experts and even providing emergency pet food;
6- providing veterinary students with the specialized training they need to be able to work in high-volume spay/neuter clinics and in animal shelters upon graduation;
7 - working with legislators on a local level to create humane laws and ordinances that protect our citizens and animals;
8 - increasing compliance with animal laws such as mandatory spay/neuter, microchipping, and rabies vaccination laws;
9 - increasing adoptions through shelters and other humane organizations by supporting their lifesaving efforts.

We provide transport and spay/neuter services for pet owners in 15 North Texas counties with a combined population of more than 9 million residents. We alter between 300-500 pets weekly thanks to 3 stationary clinics (Crandall, Dallas and Fort Worth), a 40-foot Mobile Animal Surgical Hospital (MASH), and transport vans. We continue to grow: in 2016, we altered more than 17,500 pets; in 2021 we altered more than 25,000 animals. Since our founding, we have spayed/neutered more than 300,000 pets and vaccinated more than 400,000 and educated more than 500,000 Texans on compassionate and responsible pet ownership.

We have three stationary clinics that are staffed with veterinarians, veterinary techs and support personnel trained to work with animals. We have an outreach team that has had extensive experience working in at-risk neighborhoods. We have multiple vans that serve counties outside of the Dallas Fort Worth area. Our education program for school children was developed by a licensed animal welfare education instructor and our externship program for young veterinarians was developed with one of Texas' leading veterinary colleges.

The need in our community is large and we are in a constant state of calculated growth in order to better address the need. In 2020 we kicked off our 'Fixed. For Good.' campaign. Our Board has made the commitment to expand our Mobile and transport van services throughout North Texas to ensure that all 16 counties that make up the North Central Texas Council of governments (Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Erath, Hood, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman, Navarro, Palo Pinto, Parker, Rockwall, Somervell, Tarrant, and Wise) all have access to low-cost veterinary care on a regular monthly basis. This will include access to vaccination events and mobile / transport spay neuter. We will work with each county and all cities located in each county to learn where services are needed most, how best to get the word out in these communities and make sure we are there as often as needed. We will be closely tracking our success through shelter intakes and problem calls. Many of the areas that we are targeting are rural communities that have limited or nonexistent resources to care for and manage free roaming animals. We are committed to helping every location that needs help and getting them on our regular schedule for services.