San Gabriel Valley : SPAY DAY
In honor of National Spay Day, 100 cats will be spayed and neutered at the Baldwin Park Animal Shelter on Tuesday.
The “spay-a-thon” was planned by L.A. County Animal Care and Control and a variety of San Gabriel organizations as “a dramatic gesture,” said county spokesman Bob Ballenger.
“When people think about sterilization, dogs almost always come to mind,” he said. “Cats for some reason fall through the cracks.”
But the cats picked up by Pomona-based Cats in Need aren’t going anywhere. The nonprofit cat welfare organization will bring the cats to the Baldwin Park clinic, and county Drs. Josie Zabala and Nicanor Lopez will perform the surgeries from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Ballenger said. No other cats will be sterilized at that time.
Usually, veterinarians who specialize in animal sterilization perform 20 to 25 operations a day, but Ballenger said he is not worried about doubling the doctors’ workload.
“These are real pros,” he said.
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