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After spaying and neutering nearly 30,000 pets of the low-income in a multi-county area, our big rig mobile pet sterilization clinic is heading onward!
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The history (or should that be hysterectomy) of the Pasado Spay Station started when we began loosing sleep each night. The thought that unwanted animals who filled shelters (and faced euthanasia) were not afforded free or low-cost spay/neuter services was plaguing us. So, thanks to a grantor who knew the value of fixing the problem at the heart of it, Pasado launched The Spay Station.
After eight years on the road, we've sent the clinic south, to assist Pierce County, Washington, a county responsible for the most strays, owner-relinquished animals, and sadly, the most shelter euthanasias. Working with an alliance of great, passionate people there, The Spay Station is moving mountains to cut those numbers dramatically.
Meantime, we were blessed with a donation to build a second, larger mobile clinic. We unleashed The Spay Station II last year locally, in our original service area.
But one memory haunted us: we visited Whatcom and North Skagit Counties in the past, forcing our dedicated crews to make a (very) long drive to (very) needy areas. There are virtually no free or low-cost services for the many pets of the low-income. We wished we could be there EVERY DAY! There were so many animals who we left behind, NEEDING our services so badly. It broke our hearts, and stayed in the back of our minds that we need to do something.
And now we have.
Pasado's Safe Haven has teamed up with our original Spay Station veterinarian, Dr. Karen Mueller, DVM, to speuter in our new service area: Skagit and Whatcom Counties! Dr. Karen trained with us in Texas, under S.N.A.P.?s tutelage. S.N.A.P. (Spay-Neuter Assistance Program) in Houston, was the first organization in the U.S. to launch mobile pet sterilization units, bringing the answer, TO the need directly into the neighborhoods that were responsible for filling area shelters with unwanted animals. Dr. Karen was our high volume veterinarian on-board The Spay Station I, our first mobile clinic, in its first years of operation. Now she's back!
Dr. Karen is part of an amazing group of people that Pasado's is coordinating with directly that is passionate about ending pet overpopulation.
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