Counties and Cities Around Oregon with Progressive Spay/Neuter Programs

Bend and even Prineville have extremely progressive spay/neuter and shelter practises. Click here to go to Bend's Snip page.. Click post title to go directly to Prineville Snip House graphics page, showing their incredible accomplishment, reducing euthanasia of cats in the local shelter to 0, by massive spay/neuter.

Look at the figures for the local shelter on that Snip Priveville graph. They tell the story. In 2003, 982 cats entered this small shelter and 616 of them were killed. Snip began, that year, to fix cats. They fixed 341. By 2006, 487 cats entered the shelter, but only 19 were killed. Snip fixed 2015 cats in Prineville in 2006. Why are they able to kill so few now, despite the fact 487 still entered the shelter that year? I would guess because demand is higher, because supply is plummeting.

Do you know how many cats Heartland kills? I don't, because they're not transparent about what they do. If they were transparent, things might change. A community has to understand there is a problem, before they'll support change and solving it. If a shelter pretties up the facts or hides them, fearing loss of community support should the community know the massive numbers of healthy animals dying there, NOTHING CHANGES and the shelter becomes the problem for lack of change. I know Heartland still kills lots and lots of healthy cats. But I don't know the exact number, and they don't tell.

Look at what spay/neuter has done for the animals, in Bend and Prineville, then tell Heartland this is what we want in these parts, not more of the same. Tell them, it can be done and when they say it can't, give them this information.

Lane County is getting up to speed on spay/neuter rapidly. Greenhill will fix about 600 community cats, owned and feral, in the next two months in honor of spay/day. A new low cost spay clinic has opened in Eugene also, funded by the Willamette Animal Guild, a nonprofit, with the help of the Humane Alliance, a national group. Then the county itself runs a low cost spay/neuter clinic, too.

The mid valley, Linn and Benton counties, need some progressive spay/neuter and shelter programs. We got nothing right now, actually. Nothing. That's embarrassing.