2023
Fall: We’re working on some new projects and opportunities to expand and enrich our clinics! Watch out for a chance to sign up for our newsletter. If you’ve done business with us, you’ll be automagically signed up, with easy opt-out if it’s not your bag.
Summer: This has been a big second year for us. We moved over to a mobile operation in late spring, which opens a lot of opportunities for us and serves the SLV community better. Our bookings are better than ever and overhead is reduced. All around the valley, firehouses and county shops have welcomed us, and we are most excited to visit their communities! We’ve even been able to branch out and visit Trinidad.
At the end of July the IRS granted us formal 501(c)(3) status, backdated to the end of July in 2022. We are now working on applying for grants for such things as microchips for all clients, vaccinations, etc. Because we’re furthermore a 509(a)(2), donors can deduct up to 60% of their AGI if donated to us! Tithing is for the milquetoast crowd, go big! Just ask for a donation letter when you donate. We’re most grateful for all support, great and small.
We’re also a PACFA rescue in our own right, which means we’re able to accept some kitten surrenders and rescue some kittens as part of our TNR operations. We’re very limited capacity, but we make as much room for rescues as we can. This also means we do occasionally have kittens for adoption and are able to place some barn cats when necessary. Hopefully, our adoptable kittens will soon appear on Adopt-a-Pet, PetFinders, and our own website. Currently, they’re just found on our Facebook page.
2022
2022 was our first year as a spay and neuter clinic, working out of the Cats Alive building in Monte Vista, under their umbrella. We began on Feb 2, coinciding with a visit from Bergen Spay and Neuter to Alamosa. They brought us a licensed tech to work with Dr. Behrns and we were off to a wonderful start! By June, it was clear that the spay and neuter operation was going to be 10x the size of Cats Alive, and we’d need to be our own organization, so we filed for papers and began the work of separating operations. By the end of 2022, we’d fixed 1444 cats and dogs, as well as getting our name out there in the valley.
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