Pit Stop (Free Pittie Spay/Neuter)

Check out our coverage on Best Friends Animal Society's website! We're pretty excited that they chose to promote our cause.

We still need everyone's help to raise money and awareness about the project. Just a quick e-mail to friends and family, or your church, trivia night team, or posted on our Facebook page could make the difference -- and get to a family in need or hit home with someone looking to donate.

Thanks to all of our supporters! The pitties applaud you!

We are pleased to update you on another partner in this community project -- big thanks goes out to PALS (Prevent a Litter) of Central Texas! http://www.preventalitter.com/ They have generously offered to help fund many of the spay/neuter surgeries for our pitties. This is a great source of assistance toward providing free spay/neuter to the pittie owners who need it most.

But, we still have lots of other costs to boot -- e-collars, take-home pain meds, basic vaccines, etc. -- that we are including in our Pit Stop Program that we need your help to fund! Please spread the word about giving, today!

For just $50, we can provide a spay or neuter for a pittie in need. If we raise $3000 (our goal), we can provide services to 60 pitties! If we had 60 people give $50, we would achieve our goal.

Please help spread the word and take a look at all of the benefits! (Thank you, Spay-USA):

BENEFITS OF SPAY/NEUTER FOR CATS AND DOGS

• Benefits of Spaying (females):
  • No heat cycles, therefore males will not be attracted
  • Less desire to roam
  • Risk of mammary gland tumors, ovarian and/or uterine cancer is reduced or eliminated, especially if done before the first heat cycle
  • Reduces number of unwanted cats/kittens/dogs/puppies
  • Helps dogs and cats live longer, healthier lives
    
• Benefits of Neutering (males):
  • Reduces or eliminates risk of spraying and marking
  • Less desire to roam, therefore less likely to be injured in fights or auto accidents
  • Risk of testicular cancer is eliminated, and decreases incidence of prostate disease
  • Reduces number of unwanted cats/kittens/dogs/puppies
  • Decreases aggressive behavior, including dog bites
  • Helps dogs and cats live longer, healthier lives
    
• Top 3 Reasons to Spay and Neuter
  • It helps to reduce companion animal overpopulation. Most countries have a surplus of companion animals and are forced to euthanize or disregard their great suffering. The surplus is in the millions in the United States. Cats are 45 times as prolific, and dogs 15 times as prolific, as humans.They do not need our help to expand their numbers; they need our help to reduce their numbers until there are good homes for them all.
    
  • Sterilization of your cat or dog will increase his/her chance of a longer and healthier life. Altering your canine friend will increase his life an average of 1 to 3 years, felines, 3 to 5 years. Altered animals have a very low to no risk of mammary gland tumors/cancer, prostate cancer, perianal tumors, pyometria, and uterine, ovarian and testicular cancers.
  • Sterilizing your cat/dog makes him/her a better pet, reducing his/her urge to roam and decreasing the risk of contracting diseases or getting hurt as they roam. Surveys indicate that as many as 85% of dogs hit by cars are unaltered. Intact male cats living outside have been shown to live on average less than two years. Feline Immunodeficiency Syndrome is spread by bites and intact cats fight a great deal more than altered cats.
    
• Additional Benefits:
  
  • Your community will also benefit. Unwanted animals are becoming a very real concern in many places. Stray animals can easily become a public nuisance, soiling parks and streets, ruining shrubbery, frightening children and elderly people, creating noise and other disturbances, causing automobile accidents, and sometimes even killing livestock or other pets.
    - The American Veterinary Medical Association
    
    
  • The capture, impoundment and eventual destruction of unwanted animals costs taxpayers and private humanitarian agencies over a billion dollars each year. As a potential source of rabies and other less serious diseases, they can be a public health hazard.
    - The American Veterinary Medical Association
    
    
  
  

Ladies and Gentlemen, start your engines! We are raising the green flag on the Pit Stop Program, a joint effort of the City's Pit Bull Working Group, Love-A-Bull, Emancipet and Friends of Town Lake Animal Center. We are rallying together to present this community-wide free pit bull spay/neuter campaign. We are racing toward our inaugural week of free pit bull spay/neuter (Monday, May 23 through Saturday, May 28), and WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!

To maintain Austin's dedication to No-Kill, we need to address the needs of the most at-risk breeds -- pit bull type dogs. Unaltered stray dogs, rampant breeding, and owners lacking resources have created an overpopulation of these dogs that fills the shelter. We are working together to reduce this number through widespread community education and action. Access to free spay/neuter services for pit bulls is a big step toward the finish line!

Austin is in pole position to keep making progress, but we need your help to clear the checkered flag! Please donate today to the Pit Stop Program, so that we can offer a free Pit Pass to those in need.