Projects:
Saving the Lives of Cats in our Community: Spay and Save
Helping Low Income Families Manage Pet Overpopulation
ASAP seeks to dramatically reduce the euthanasia of cats across the Portland Oregon metro area during the next five years by creating a high-volume spay/neuter program serving low-income pet owners and feral cats.
ASAP, a working coalition of nonprofit animal welfare organizations, public animal agencies, and professional veterinary associations, is well-positioned to undertake this “10K Cat Spay” initiative.
Building on the success of the Humane Alliance model, cats will be transported to select clinics already in operation to complete 10-13 thousand additional cat neuters and spays annually. Utilizing centralized scheduling and the unused capacity of existing clinics will avoid major capital expense, while allowing rapid start-up, high-volume efficiency, and lowered costs.
With a total budget of $3.08 million over five years, the project will deliver 62,000 spays/neuters at an average overall cost of $50 per surgery. $35 per surgery will need to be raised in charitable dollars
This five-year initiative will target cat populations with low spay/neuter rates and high shelter admissions to reach the ultimate goal: ending cat overpopulation across our community and assuring a lifelong loving home for every pet.
For more information about how you can help make this project a reality, please contact us by email or phone Mary Henry at 503-416-7083.
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Asilomar Shelter Statistics –
Reuniting Pets with Owners and Finding New Homes for Animals
We are part of a Portland-area network of shelters that have agreed to the Asilomar Accords. These organizations pledge to work in cooperation with other shelters.
Washington County Animal Services, Multnomah County Animal Services, the Oregon Humane Society, the Cat Adoption Team, the Humane Society for Southwest Washington , and Clackamas County Dog Control meet monthly to work together in a network we call the Animal Shelter Alliance of Portland (ASAP). We work as a team to help each other out when one shelter is full but another shelter has room to take animals. We are working together on spay/neuter initiatives for low-income families. We share knowledge, information, and ideas to help the animals in our community.
Each member of ASAP keeps accurate, careful records of the animals that arrive and leave from our shelters. Those statistics help us chart our progress in saving the lives of animals in our community.
In Washington County we are proud that our adoption rates far exceed national averages – and are getting better every year that we’ve been keeping these statistics. You can see our statistics for 2008 and for year-to-date for 2009. You can also see the statistics of other Portland-area shelters.
2006, 2007, 2008 Statistics Comparision
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