NORTHWEST ALABAMA SPAY AND NEUTER ASSISTANCE

Our goal is to reduce the number of unwanted dogs and cats being born in the Northwest Alabama area by helping get companion animals fixed.

We plan to assist low income individuals to have their pet dogs and cats spayed and neutered. We will do that by raising money to help pay the bill for qualified individuals that could not otherwise afford to have their animals fixed.

We have a Board comprised of individuals who have worked in the Animal Welfare field for several years and have experience managing programs designed to help animals as well as other life experience which well qualifies them for running an organization such as this.

During 2015, we assisted residents of our covered area to spay and neuter 110 of their companion dogs and cats. In 2016 we assisted in altering 308 animals and in 2017 our number rose to 364. We continued to schedule more animals as we received additional funding and more people learned about our program. In 2018, our total rose to 395, 2019 we helped 423 and 2020 was by far the more productive year we have had. We helped spay or neuter 668 animals in 2020, which was a very large, unexpected increase over 2019. Because of this, we started 2021 in a deficit position. Luckily, we were able to qualify for some grants and also had some generous donors that covered the part of the surgeries not covered by the grants. However, the shortage of funds for a period of time, we had to scale back our operations and the total number of animals we helped in 2021 was not quite as large as 2020.
However, even with the funding shortages, we still helped to spay and neuter 528 animals in 2021 and are very proud of that. Knowledge of our organization and the help it provides is spreading and we are getting more and more requests for assistance as people learn about our success. We continue to search for funding sources and activities in order to continue and grow our program.