The Beverly Animal Shelter's SOS clinic is currently held the 3rd Friday of every month at the Auburn SPCA building on York Street in Auburn. The shelter provides all transportation of your pet to and from the clinic in Auburn. If you are registered for a BAS SOS clinic, you would bring your pet to BAS on Thursday before 6pm. All pets are transported to the Auburn facility by BAS staff and volunteers early Friday morning. The clinic can sometimes go well into the evening, with all pets returning to the shelter together that evening. Your pet will be ready for pick up at BAS after 10AM Saturday morning, if they arrive back sooner Friday evening you will be called to come pick up your pet.
Costs:
**Due to the overwhelming demand for the limited spaces at these clinics, BAS requires a deposit to be paid one week prior to the clinic for community pets. This deposit will be the cost of the spay/neuter plus a rabies shot and is as follows:
Cats:
Male - ($30 neuter +$5 rabies) = $35.00 deposit
Female- ($50 spay +$5 rabies) =$55.00 deposit
Dogs:
Male- ($60 neuter +$5 rabies)= $65.00 Deposit
Females- ($80 Spay + $5 rabies)= $85.00 Deposit
Other services and procedures:
Vaccinations (DHLPP, FVRCP, RV) = $5.00
Flea Treatment: $5.00
Ivermectin for Ear Mites: $3
Pet in heat, pregnant, pyometra, umbilical hernia: $10.00
Cryptorchid (un-dropped testicle): $10.00-$20.00
**Rabies shots will be given unless you provide a rabies certificate to prove that your pet has had this shot. Any other procedures or complications (such as Cryptorchid, pet in heat/pregnant etc.) are an additional charge and are the responsibility of the pet owner, which will be due when you pick up your pet.
**Please be considerate and call the shelter in advance if you know you will not be able to make your appointment. You will be able to reschedule at a later date. Many animals are waiting for these slots and if we are not notified soon enough we may not have time to fill the slot, and another pet will miss out.
To schedule your pet for an appointment call 539-9357
The truth about Spaying and Neutering
Many people do not like to have their animals altered because they feel that they are "taking something" away from the animal. Pets don't have any concept of sexual identity or ego. Neutering will not change a pet's basic personality. He doesn't suffer any kind of emotional reaction or identity crisis when neutered. It will decrease sexually orientated behavior (aggressiveness, fighting, roaming, and urinary marking) which is undesirable The truth is by not having your animal spayed or neutered you could be putting your animal at risk.
By having your female dog spayed she is then relieved of the stress of messy twice-yearly heat cycles and will no longer face the prospect of cystic ovaries, un wanted pregnancies, pyometra (a serious and sometimes fatal uterine infection) and irregular heat cycles. Nor do you have to keep her confined during estrus.
A neutered male has less risk of prostate enlargement and perianal adenomas (tumors of glands found around the anus) and no risk of testicular cancer. He's less territorial, gets along better with other dogs and is less likely to roam. Males who are not neutered are 99% more likely to run off on you in search of a female, by doing so the dog could be hit by a car or end up caught by dog control. Male cats are less likely to spray once fixed. If not fixed they can spray everything you own.
The willingness and ability of altered males and females to protect their home and family remains intact, as does their love for their people.
Many people are surprised to learn that nationwide more than 3 million cats and dogs are euthanized in shelters. You might think that these are animals born in the streets or there is something "wrong" with them. But often they are the offspring of cherished family pets, even purebreds. Maybe someone's dog or cat got out just that one time or maybe the litter was intentional, but efforts to find enough good homes failed.
Still the result is homeless animals that have to be euthanized because there are more dogs and cats entering shelters than there are people willing to provide them with loving homes. Even if you do find homes for your pet's puppies or kittens, that means there are fewer homes available to take in other pets from shelters. Spaying and neutering is the only permanent, 100% effective method of birth control for dogs and cats.
