1114 Animals Treated in 2024! Triple your impact in 2025!

2024 has been our biggest year yet!  
While our work has always relied heavily on collaboration, this year we were lucky to work with more veterinary hospitals, organizations, community organizers, and community members than ever before. Your support has made it possible to help over 1,000 animals and their families in 2024. 

While numbers only tell part of the story, they help us make sense of the work from the past year, and our goals for 2025. Here is our year in numbers:

This November we organized the first ever city-wide spay/neuter-a-thon called Let’s Fix NYC! We brought together almost 30 veterinary hospitals to address the critical shortage in affordable and accessible spay/neuter availability. We were thrilled to have greatly surpassed our original goal of 100 surgeries, and are already planning how we can make more of an impact in 2025.

Companion animals are valued family members and watching a family member have to be euthanized because the cost of care is too much is unbearable for both the family and the medical team. Providing emergency visits and urgent surgeries means there are hundreds of people who avoided the trauma of losing a companion animal and instead will have hundreds more happy memories to look forward to due to their animal’s life being saved!

That means that hundreds of companion animals had vet visits that might not have been possible without our street clinics. Thousands were vaccinated which in turn prevents disease – 10% of unvaccinated adult dogs will get parvo and that number gets significantly higher in puppies.
Hundreds of families were given advice on preventative care and most importantly all those that required follow up care received it.

We realize we have given you lots of numbers to digest, but if we can give you jut one more… $10,000 is the number of our end of the year matching drive. All donations up to $10,000 will be TRIPLE MATCHED which also means we will have the opportunity to take on more cases and have even higher numbers served in 2025.

If you are in a position to give, we promise to turn your donation into something truly life-saving!

We have so many to thank for all we have been able to accomplish in 2024 but most of all we need to thank YOU. To all of you who have been here since day one when our numbers looked a little different, your continued support means everything. For those of you that are newer to the mission, thanks for taking interest in the work we do. Here’s to 2025 being our best yet!

Let’s Fix NYC! Participate in the First City-Wide Spay/Neuter-athon!

Join us to provide lifesaving care to animals in need and to help keep animals off the streets, in homes, and out of shelters that are already at capacity. Unaltered animals are vulnerable to expensive and life threatening conditions such as pyometra and cancer. Behavioral issues such as aggression and spraying are some of the main reasons that families feel they have no choice but to leave their beloved animals at already overcrowded shelters. It doesn’t have to be this way. We can help these animals right now.

Do you need low-cost or free spay neuter services? Fill out our application

Veterinary professionals interested in participating? Download info packet

Interested in sponsoring, volunteering or finding out more? Contact us at fixnyc@positivetails.org

Clinic in the Bronx, 9/28!

Thank you to everyone who made the clinic on 9/28 possible! We could not do any of this without our amazing volunteers, who arrive early, stay late, and work tirelessly to bring veterinary care to this underserved community.

We were able to treat 133 animals, and sign the majority up for spay/neuter surgeries. We’re thrilled about our partnership with Mission Helping Hand and Christ Church, which allows us to be a regular presence in this neighborhood.

Special thanks go to the medical professionals who donated their services, and our partners who help with supplies, behavior training, grooming services and so much more. We are extremely grateful! @missionhelpinghand, @liusheltermedclub, @bronxcommunitycats, @strongpawrescue, @cityveterinary, @gentlejourneyvetcare, @glendalevet, @allcreatures, @vergbrooklyn

We are grateful to everyone who participated and attended, and looking forward to visiting this location again soon!

Clinic in Brooklyn at Mount Hope United Holy Church!

Another  Positive Tails clinic, another location, and another amazing job done by all that are involved!
Thank you to our host at Mount Hope United Holy Church. Thank you to the families that braved the bad weather and still made it (despite the rain we still saw close to 100 companion animals!)

We’ll say again we can’t do this alone and we never do!
This clinic was sponsored by @nydisnet

How we are able to land some of the greatest veterinary professionals and the best volunteers we’ll never know, but please never leave us!! 

We are so excited to have been able to work with @bersamadogs and @magicbrooklynbeans to offer fear free training advice to our attendees.

Also every attendee left with more food and supplies then could carry thanks to @strongpawsrescue and @michelle_marlowe_1111 and @porschejones45

We love clinics and we love you for making them possible!

London

Young animals make some not well thought out decisions. London decided to leap from his person’s arms without any warning and unfortunately suffered an extreme injury as a result. Fortunately for them they decided to seek help at the excellent @vergbrooklyn. He suffered a bilateral fracture.

London is only 4 months old and to guarantee full mobility he would need orthopedic surgery. Orthopedic surgery is expensive in any form, when two different limbs have to be operated on at once, the price jumps even more so it is not surprising that a family would need help. London’s family applied for @positivetails and we were able help cover the difference and if you know anything about us, you obviously know that we threw in a neuter.

London has a bit of recovery ahead but we’re happy to say that his surgery team did an amazing job and his family will do everything to help him on his healing journey.

Don’t Walk By Clinic

One of our favorite events to collaborate on is the amazing “Don’t Walk By” with @cityrelief. We are so proud and honored to be alongside them in serving unhoused populations by providing them a full spectrum of resources and support. On February 24th we were able to serve 18 animals! 

Luna

Luna exemplifies the importance of clinics! Luna and her family attended our clinic last Saturday and the second she arrived everyone knew something was very wrong with her. Her family had gotten her a couple of days before from an individual giving puppies away in the park and according to her family Luna never seemed quite right. The @positivetails team immediately suspected parvo. While we can vaccinate against parvo at our clinics (which would have prevented this situation in the first place) we could not treat parvo. We immediately sent Luna to our partners @cityveterinarycare where they confirmed our suspicions and got right to work saving her life. Parvo left untreated will most likely result in death, but has an 85% survival rate with treatment. 

Luna was lucky to have attended our clinic just in time, she is lucky to have a family that sought care as soon as they found a way, and she was lucky to land herself in very capable hands.

Another huge thank you to @thestreetdogcoalition for sponsoring Luna’s care

The truth is Luna should never have been bred in the first place. The person that did it was clearly not getting the puppies proper medical care. Another hard truth to swallow is a vaccine can cost $40 at a private clinic (free at our public clinics) and can be thousands of dollars to treat depending on the severity..a cost that is unattainable for many. 

So the moral of the story, stop breeding puppies and vaccinate the ones that are already here. 

Dante

We met Dante through our collaboration work with the community outreach program at the @nycacc 

They are working with many to help find Dante and his family a residence as they are currently experiencing homelessness.

In order for his family to get the help they need Dante needed to be neutered and he needed to be neutered urgently. They reached out to @positivetails and we reached out to @cityveterinarycare and we all made it happen. 

As we all know there is a major housing crisis right now. Finding housing with companion animals is an even larger hurdle. If you’re interested in this (and you should be!) sign up for the My Dog is My Home virtual conference happening at the end of March.

#dontbullymybreed #housingforall