Keeping homeless, unwanted animals from being born is one of the primary goals of the Humane Society of Utah, and last year our in-house spay and neuter clinic performed a record 10,143 sterilization surgeries on animals brought to our facility. This year, throughout the month of April, we want to do something about the many cats who don’t have anybody to care about what happens to them and their kittens. We’re sponsoring the Fabulous Feral Feline Fix campaign, during which time any feral or homeless cat brought to us by anyone concerned enough to get the animal to our shelter located at 4242 South 300 West will be surgically sterilized for only $17.50. (The usual price for spaying a female cat is $28, neutering a male is normally $21.)
Feral cats are animals who were either born in some neglected area in the first place, or abandoned soon after birth. They have maintained a marginal existence by relying on sheer luck and their most basic instincts. Their lives will very likely be "short, nasty, and brutish," to use Thomas Hobbes’s famous phrase, but as long as they are alive these creatures will be relentlessly driven by the two most powerful forces common to all organic beings on this planet: the will to survive and the urge to reproduce. We can do something about that last one.
Please call our clinic at 261-2919, ex. 230, to confirm that space and time are available; then catch any roaming, homeless cats in your area that you can, bring them in, and stop the cruel cycle of unwanted life from endlessly repeating itself. We reserve the right to refuse any cat that appears to be at high risk for the surgery — too old, ill, or injured, for example — but that prowling Tom who’s been responsible for all those litters, the little mama-to-be, the barn cat that just might belong to someone but certainly presents no evidence that she does, will all be welcomed.
It may cost you a little bit of trouble and a little bit of cash, but it will make a huge difference in one little part of our world. For more information, please call 261-2919.