Support World Spay Day

From Mycale Downey, director

Creston Animal Rescue Effort

World Spay Day is an annual campaign that promotes spay/neuter as a proven, effective means of saving animals’ lives and this year it takes place on Feb. 28. Founded as Spay Day USA in 1995 by the Doris Day Animal League, the program has grown to include participants in 46 countries, thus inspiring the name change. Since Spay Day’s inception, it is estimated that more than one million animals have been spayed or neutered in conjunction with the campaign.

Humane organizations and rescue groups, veterinary clinics and individuals all across the U.S. and around the world are bringing awareness to the importance of spaying and neutering. Spay/neuter saves pets’ lives while lessening the burden on animal shelters and taxpayers. It is a permanent, 100-percent effective method of birth control for cats, dogs and rabbits. When we spay or neuter our pets, we ensure those animals and their offspring will not add to the millions of already suffering animals. The number of animals euthanized in shelters and pounds is directly related to the number of unwanted litters born.

C.A.R.E. (Creston Animal Rescue Effort) volunteers are encouraging Creston citizens to be a part of the solution and spay or neuter at least one animal — their own, a friend or family member’s, or a shelter animal awaiting adoption — in honor of World Spay Day 2012.

“Fixed for Free in February” is an annual promotion sponsored by Creston Animal Rescue Effort (C.A.R.E.) and benefits homeless pets at the Creston City Pound (C.C.P.). Any pet adopted from the C.C.P. during the month of February will have the required spay/neuter surgery paid for. This promotion encourages adoption and sterilization, two things that C.A.R.E. is passionate about.

To see pets available for adoption, please visit: www.crestonanimalrescue.petfinder.com or find us on Facebook and for more information about World Spay Day 2012 visit: www.worldspayday.org.