The Neuter Scooter will be back in Milton-Freewater on March 31, 2008
-- and --
in Pendleton just before that.

Spay/neuters are $30 per cat for feral
cats deemed feral by Neuter Scooter personnel and brought to the clinic in
a live trap. Owned cats are $50 per cat if prepaid online or at The Cats
Meow in Milton-Freewater at 914 S. Main St. Price includes pain
medications ($10), rabies and Felo-o-Vax 4 vaccinations, and tattoo.

Please NOTE: If you know someone that does not have internet connection, and might like to have their cat neutered on Neuter Scooter Spay Day, please have them contact our staff at The Cats Meow we'll take care of the details for them. Thanks

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Pets of Milton-Freewater, Inc. wishes to express their appreciation
to those who made the February 10 & 17, 2008 Weston Spay Days successful with
98 feral and stray cats spayed or neutered. Veterinarians T. Patrick
Kennedy (Milton-Freewater) and Fiona Hillenbrand (Weston) donated a full
day or spay/neuter surgeries each. Veterinary technicians from Kennedy
Mobile Veterinary Service, Lori Moore (Weston) and Kara Udy (Athena)
donated two days of work and Kelli Kidd (Milton-Freewater) donated one
day. Pendleton veterinary technicians Anita Valeztena and Jenn Christensen
donated a day's labor each for the cause as well.

Those who assisted in trapping and transporting feral cats in Weston
included Paula Babb (Athena), Lyla Lampson (Milton-Freewater), Marjorie
Rakestraw (Milton-Freewater), and Dawn Adams (Walla Walla) as well as
Weston residents Lori & Randy Record, Lisa Greer and Carolyn Rencken.
Individual caretakers also assisted in trapping cats in their yards.

The City of Weston donated $2,000 to help pay the expenses of these
special Spay Days. Lisa Greer, Cheryl Bonham and Ann Davis all of Weston
have thus far raised nearly $400 through donations and raffle sales to
help complete the feral cat spay/neuter project in the next six weeks.

It is estimated that about 40 cats remain to be spayed/neutered in Weston
and about 20 on Weston mountain, hopefully in the next six weeks, if
sufficient funds can be raised. Approximately $2000 needs to be raised to
finish the Weston Feral Cat Project for this year.

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CITY OF WESTON - TRAP-NEUTER-RETURN PROJECT - January 2008
To the surprise of many Weston residents, the Trap-Neuter-Return project proposed by Pets of
Milton-Freewater to the City Council on January 9, 2008, was well
received. The City Council voted to support the effort by donating the
$2,000 requested to Pets of Milton-Freewater to implement a TNR program.
All but one of the city council members was fully in favor of the plan,
with the single dissenter concerned about liability issues that might
arise. Resident Lisa Greer pointed out that every household will be
visited prior to the trapping and advised to leave their own cats inside
on the trapping days, plus she will be posting flyers around town to
remind people when the trapping events are to be held.

The program Pets of Milton-Freewater offered to the City of Weston centers
around two Spay Day events in which local veterinarians T. Patrick Kennedy
of Kennedy Mobile Veterinary Service in Milton-Freewater and Fiona
Hillenbrand, a Weston resident working at Pendleton Veterinary Hospital in
Pendleton, will each donate a day to spay/neuter cats. The staff of
Kennedy Mobile Veterinary Service are also donating their time and their
facility for the Spay Days. The $2,000 the city is donating will go to
pay for supplies to spay/neuter 100 cats for the two Spay Days, saving the
City of Weston thousands of dollars.

Lyla Lampson, of Pets of Milton-Freewater, Inc. who presented the proposal
to the City Council, noted that 75 feral cats is what you would expect in
a city of that size based upon national averages. However, those familiar
with the feral cat situation in Weston guess there are probably more like
200 feral cats present, though perhaps 75 of them have already been
spayed/neutered by individuals in Weston and/or by Pets of
Milton-Freewater. A major goal of the project is to complete the
spay/neuter of the vast majority of the feral and stray cats in the city
by the end of February, before kitten season is in full swing.

To address the spay/neuter needs for the cats that remain to be
spayed/neutered after the Free Feral Cat Spay Days, $2,000 or more is to
be raised by Weston residents Lisa Greer and Ann Davis who will be
surveying every household in Weston in the latter half of January. They
will be asking questions to determine where and how many feral and stray
cats are in the area, to get permission to trap on their properties, and
to seek donations to assist in completing the initial TNR project.
Several raffles of Lisa Greer's cat furniture will be held to raise money
for this project as well. If more than enough money is raised to
spay/neuter the feral and stray cat population, financial assistance will be
offered to those of limited income to spay/neuter their owned cats.

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NEUTER SCOOTER - December 2007
During the recent Neuter Scooter visit, Dr. Peavy and her
crew spayed/neutered 91 cats in Pendleton on December 11 and 75 in
Milton-Freewater on December 12. Numerous e-mails to Sallie McCullough,
Walla Walla Animal Control Officer, received from clients of the Neuter
Scooter in Milton-Freewater reflected the satisfaction with service
received.

Pendleton hopes to bring the Neuter Scooter back in early March for two
weeks to work on altering the 1000 feral cats along the dike. Pets of
Milton-Freewater is interested in getting them back to start a
Trap-Neuter-Return program for Walla Walla in fall or winter of 2008. It
has not been confirmed whether the Neuter Scooter can be confirmed for
either of those time slots.

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BERNICE BARBOUR GRANT - December 2007
Pets of Milton-Freewater, Inc. received a $1,600 grant from the
Bernice Barbour Foundation to purchase live traps for their
Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) program.
Secretary/Treasurer Lyla Lampson reports 49 live traps have been ordered
and should be on hand for the Weston TNR Project which is to start early
February. The traps will also be available for use in the Pendleton Dike
TNR project that Pet Utopia is doing.

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Last update - March 2008
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