Low Cost Spay-Neuter Certificate Fact Sheet

How does SpayGeorgia’s Spay-Neuter Program work? More than 120 veterinary clinics in Georgia have generously agreed to provide spaying and neutering services at a substantially reduced cost.

To obtain a certificate, call 770-662-4479 and leave your name and address. In a few days, you will receive an order form and a list of participating veterinary clinics in the mail. Complete the order form and return it to SpayGeorgia along with your payment. You will receive your low-cost certificate, which you can redeem at any participating veterinary clinic.

• To end pet overpopulation – About 70,000 cats and kittens are born daily in the U.S. Approximately 60% are killed in shelters. Here at home, an average of 166 healthy pets are killed each day in Metro Atlanta shelters. By spaying and neutering your pets, you can help reduce the need for more animal shelters – there by saving tax dollars.
• To improve your pet’s health – Neutering a male cat or dog by six months of age prevents testicular cancer, prostate disease, and hernias. Spaying a female cat or dog prevents pyometra (an infected uterus) and breast cancer. Having this done before the first heat offers the best protection from these diseases. Breast cancer is fatal in about 50% of female dogs and 90% of female cats. With an older, seriously ill animal, anesthesia and surgery are complicated and costly.
• To improve your pet’s behavior – In female cats and dogs, spaying eliminates “heat” periods, which include bloody discharges in dogs, and frantic pacing and wailing in both dogs and cats. Neutering male dogs and cats usually stops them from spraying foul-smelling urine, stops embarrassing mounting behavior, reduces their aggressiveness, and reduces their desire to roam far and wide in search of a mate.
• To reduce expenses – Owners of unneutered male cats and dogs often incur large veterinary bills as a result of fighting with other animals or getting hit by a car as they search for a mate. Owners of unspayed female cats and dogs must care for mothers who have difficult pregnancies and should start the kittens’ or puppies’ shots. In many locations, owners of spayed or neutered cats and dogs receive a discount on local licensing fees.
• To improve the community – Homeless animals eliminate in neighborhood yards, pass diseases, spread fleas and flea eggs, fight and mate loudly in the middle of the night, turn over trash cans, and otherwise disrupt quiet, community life. Tax dollars are needlessly spent on euthanasia and other controls intended to eliminate these problems.