FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
San Diego, CA – January 5, 2025
Grant will spay 112 female cats to reduce “Mt. Kitten” at local shelters.
The David C. Copley Foundation has awarded Spay-Neuter Action Project (SNAP) a $7,000 grant to help reduce the “Mt. Kitten” annual May peak of unwanted litters arriving at local animal shelters. The grant will enable SNAP to spay 112 cats for clients who want to be responsible pet parents, but who cannot afford the cost of spaying their cats with private veterinarians. The surgeries will be done on SNAP’s mobile veterinary unit (the “Neuter Scooter,”) that travels across the county to meet clients where it is most needed, and in the SNAP East Spay Center in El Cajon.
Spaying and neutering is the best way to reduce pet overpopulation. It benefits pets, pet owners, and the community. It helps pets by reducing their cancer risk and urge to fight, increasing their life expectancy, and reducing their chances of getting lost while wandering to find a mate. The community benefits by preventing even more unwanted animals from entering the already overburdened and over-capacity local animal shelters. Prevention reduces animal suffering and saves money on housing, medicating, treating, and euthanizing homeless animals. SNAP’s services benefit pet owners by helping to reduce the financial obligation of taking care of their pets and pets’ behavioral problems such as house soiling and marking, roaming, and aggression. Pets can also have direct health benefits to their owners by effects on cardiovascular health, increased physical activity for dog owners, decreased loss of the ability to conduct activities of daily living, and mental health benefits.
“We are grateful for this grant from the David C. Copley Foundation which came at an especially important time, a few months before peak kitten season” said Dorell Phillips Sackett, SNAP’s Executive Director.
About the David C. Copley Foundation
The Foundation’s mission is to carry on the Copley family’s legacy of giving by funding nonprofit organizations making a difference in the areas of human services, military and military veterans, youth development, medical and medical research, education, arts and culture, and animal welfare, especially those programs and services improving the life or opportunities of the underserved in the San Diego area.
About Spay-Neuter Action Project (SNAP)
SNAP was founded in 1990 as the first organization in the San Diego region to implement programs to reduce the number of companion animals euthanized in local shelters. SNAP brings no- and low-cost spay/neuter services directly to communities struggling with chronic pet overpopulation. SNAP has become the primary provider of affordable spay/neuter services to the San Diego community. We have spayed and neutered more than 85,000 dogs, cats, and rabbits since 2003, including 7,433 pets in 2024. Visit www.snap-sandiego.org to learn more, or follow SNAP on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to keep up with our latest news and events.