LAKEPORT, Calif. – Lake County Animal Care and Control has secured another grant to help with spaying and neutering the county's pets.
Director Bill Davidson told Lake County News that he was successful in receiving a $10,000 grant from the Petco Foundation for the spay-neuter program through the Animal Care and Control vet clinic, located at the shelter at 4949 Helbush in Lakeport.
He said it will be similar to a spay-neuter program targeting pit bulls that he began last year, only this new program will be open to all breeds and will target low-income residents.
Surgery costs normally are $80 for spaying female dogs below 60 pounds or $90 if they weigh more than 60 pounds, and $70 for neutering, with $10 off for male dogs having the Zeuterin chemical neutering procedure.
Davidson said the grant will allow Animal Care and Control to discount those costs for spaying and neutering by 50 percent.
Davidson said the program will be open to Lake County residents with the following income levels: household size of one – $30,650; two, $35,000; three, $39,400; four, $43,750; five, $47,250; six, $50,750; seven, $54,250; and eight, $57,750.
The program is tentatively set to start on July 1, said Davidson.
Thanks to the Board of Supervisors' approval on Tuesday of a temporary contract with Dr. Richard Bachman, DVM, the shelter's vet clinic will be able to offer the services.
The clinic's former vet left to take another job out of state and Bachman, the director of the Contra Costa County animal shelter's veterinary medical program, agreed to fill in temporarily.
Bachman has been a consultant to Lake County Animal Care and Control and also helped cover clinic services when it first opened in March 2012.
A study cited by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals notes that the numbers of dogs and cats entering shelters and being euthanized across the nation has declined for several decades, due primarily to the increase in spaying and neutering of pets. The study said such services are the best way of preventing euthanasia and pet overpopulation.
For more information about the services at Lake County Animal Care and Control, call 707-263-0278 or visit http://www.co.lake.ca.us/Government/Directory/Animal_Care_And_Control.htm .
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Animal Care and Control receives $10,000 spay-neuter grant
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