Causes: Animal Protection & Welfare, Animals

Mission: Sumner spay and neuter alliance is reducing animal shelter intake and euhanasia of dogs and cats by making a high quality, high volume, low cost spay/neuter services available to all residents of our community.

Programs: In 2017, sumner spay neuter alliance performed 10,061 spay neuter surgeries. Over one-third, or 3,354 of these surgerie were done for a very small co-pay or for free for persons of low income, who could not aford these services. The organization stays on its mission with this program. The officers recognize that in order to reduce shelter intake and euthanasia, they must reach all pets with spay and neuter services, not just those individuals with dogs and cats belonging to people who can pay. Addiionally, sumner spay neuter alliance promotes education of the importance of spay neuter servces through outreach and participation in community events, collaboration with other community organizations, promotion of word of mouth, advertising, and the use of both electornic and print media.