Beatrice Humane Society Inc

In may of 2023, we opened the doors of our public facing low-cost spay and neuter clinic. We have known for many years that access to affordable preventative care has been impacting the income restricted families in our communities. Proportionally they provide a larger number of strays, surrenders and pet retention assistance requests than other parts of our community. By providing them assistance to get preventative veterinary care such as spays and neuters, we will see a decrease in the number of animals being surrendered and by including microchipping in our packages we hope to be able to reunite them with the families that love them easier. We are ecstatic about being able to offer trap, vaccinate, neuter and return to their home to the feral cats in our communities at a price point that cities, towns and even individual owners can access that care. We know that this is the most effective form of outdoor cat population control and are excited to see our communities improve with the rollout of the tvnr program. Finally, we are also providing in house spays and neuters as well as additional advanced veterinary care for our shelter animals allowing us to provide them the highest level of care they deserve while providing us critical additional capacity to care for as many animals as we can along their path to adoption. Through our spay and neuter clinic, we provided care for 501 community animals, 1251 shelter surgeries, 609 surgeries and procedures for our rescue partners and 835 tvnr surgeries for feral cats. In total in 2024, we helped over 3200 shelter and client owned animals through our low cost spay and neuter clinic.