Spay/Neuter Initiatives
PetSmart Charities partners with animal welfare agencies across the U.S. and Canada to support their efforts to end pet overpopulation.  Although adoptions are a critical part of the solution, this problem cannot be solved by adoptions alone.  Addressing the root cause of too many unwanted pets will require systemic change.

Each year 6-8 million homeless pets enter animal shelters, and 3-4 million of those are euthanized due to lack of available space. This epidemic inflow of unwanted pets strains shelter resources, threatens public safety, and costs taxpayers millions each year.

One dog or cat can have up to 20 offspring per year.  These unwanted pets enter shelters and are likely to be killed as well as cause the death of other pets because there just isn't enough space to hold them all.  

Spay and neuter saves lives.  It's that simple.

Over the next few years, PetSmart Charities will grant millions of dollars to support spay/neuter efforts, but we need your help to make an even bigger impact and bring to an end the euthanasia of healthy, adoptable pets during our lifetime.

Focus on Texas

It is estimated that as many as 500,000 abandoned or stray pets enter Texas animal shelters each year.  In Houston alone, 126,000 pets find their way to the shelters and 71 percent are euthanized each year because there are far more pets than there are adoptive homes.

In November 2007, PetSmart Charities announced its plan to pledge $5 million toward high-volume low-cost spay/neuter programs in the Lone Star State.  For more details on this five-year commitment, visit the links below.

> PetSmart Charities Spay/Neuter Backgrounder

Dallas

> Press Release

> Spay/Neuter Fact Sheet

> Spay/Neuter FAQ's

Houston

> Press Release

> Spay/Neuter Fact Sheet

> Spay/Neuter FAQ's

Spay/Neuter Resources

Austin

• Austin Humane Society, www.austinhumanesociety.org (512) 646-7387 Ext. 245
• Animal Trustees of Austin, www.animaltrustees.org (512) 450-0111
• EmanciPET, www.emancipet.org (512) 587-SPAY (7729)
  

Dallas/Fort Worth

• KittiCo Cat Rescue, www.kittico.org (214) 826-6903 ext. 3
• SPCA of Texas, www.spca.org (214) 742-7722

• Texas Coalition for Animal Protection, www.texasforthem.org (Denton, TX)   (940) 556-5551

• Kaufman County Animal Awareness Project, www.kcaap.org (Crandall, TX) (972)472-3500

Houston

• Saving Animals, www.savinganimals.org  (713) 527-4490
• Spay-Neuter Assistance Program (SNAP), www.snapus.org (713) 862-3862 or 800-762-7762
• Houston Humane Society, www.houstonhumane.org (713) 433-6421

San Antonio

• Spay-Neuter Assistance Program (SNAP), www.snapus.org (210) 673-7722
• Animal Resource Center (210) 351-7729

Donate now!

For more information about the Texas spay/neuter initiative please email info@petsmartcharities.org.

Stay tuned for upcoming announcements of the expansion of this initiative to other regions of the United States.