Southern Alliance is a non-profit 501 (c)(3) charity organization helping save the lives of dogs and cats in Lincoln County through low cost spay/neuter.
Southern Alliance Spay Neuter Clinic promotes a low cost spay/neuter program for pet owners who aren't able to afford the more expensive option of a private veterinarian. We also offer programs to help control the feral cat population in the city of Fayetteville. Through TNR (trap, neuter, release) these cats are spayed or neutered and then returned to their homes to live out a peaceful life without the burden of producing kittens. We also have a pet food bank for those that care for a feral cat colony and those that can't afford pet food on their own. This program helps retain pet ownership; which sometimes may be their only close companion.
Southern Alliance Spay Neuter Clinic
Who We Are and What We Will Accomplish
Southern Alliance Spay Neuter Clinic is dedicated to saving the lives of cats and dogs in our area. By reducing the overpopulation, we will reduce the number of unwanted animals that are turned over to local shelters and end the euthanasia of healthy adoptable pets.
We offer education on pet care, spay/neuter programs, and food assistance to qualifying pet owners; Assistance that will allow these individuals to keep their companions.
One of our premier programs is “Spay Momma”, which started as a Spay Day project offering a $20 spay/rabies shot for all mommas of litters turned in, where the owner was keeping the momma. We have extended this program to “fixing the offspring for $10 each for those wanting to keep the kittens or puppies. In 2011 the “Spay Momma” program will again be expanded to those advertising “Free to a Good Home” in the newspaper.
Our low cost spay/neuter assistance offers surgery and a rabies vaccination of $25 for a cat, $35 for a dog, and $15 for a feral cat. This program allows pet owners the services that they could not afford at local veterinarians. These co-pays are about 1/3 the actual cost; with most given lower fees for multiples and feral (free roaming cats). Volunteers do all of the transporting to and from nearby spay/neuter clinics in our Critter Fixer Wagon.
We have concentrated heavily on resolving the feral cat population in the city. There are many “managed colonies” cared for by kind businesses, residents, and volunteers. With “Operation Catnip”, a Trap/Neuter/Return project, we have greatly reduced the number of feral (free roaming cats). Most have been returned to their “home” spayed/neutered and vaccinated and the babies fostered and socialized through our volunteer foster program. These babies have been sent to rescues such as Challenger’s House in Toney Alabama or into our adoption programs with PetSmart.
Our future plans are to open a low cost spay/neuter clinic in Lincoln County, to efficiently address more of the overpopulation of both cats and larger dogs; which are more difficult to transport.
SAAW/Lincoln Co. depends completely on fundraisers, grants, and donations from compassionate individuals and businesses. These people realize both the lives and tax money saved by reducing the number of unwanted animals.
