Spay/Neuter

Let’s Fix NYC!

During the month of November, we’re organizing a city-wide event to bring organizations, individuals and veterinary hospitals together to spay and neuter as many animals as possible! Our goal is 100 surgeries in a month, but together we can surpass this number, and make our great city a safer more equitable place for humans and animals.

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. City officials have a role in helping facilitate more access to care, but this crisis can’t wait for funding and legislative changes. We can help these animals right now.

Whether you’re a veterinary professional, animal welfare organization or individual, let’s all come together to address the crisis of affordable spay/neuter care. Download the information packets below to learn how to get involved, or contact fixnyc@positivetails.org.

For Veterinary Hospitals
Corporate Sponsorships
Individual supporters

Clinics

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!

Clinics

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!

Emergencies

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.

Clinics

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! 

Clinics, Emergencies

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. 

Spay/Neuter

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

Emergencies

Rocky Lee

We recently told you about another urinary block, and here is another with a different but all too common story. Rock Lee’s family rushed him to VERG after recognizing the signs, as they had been through this a couple of times with Rocky Lee before. The medical team confirmed their suspicions , they said they needed to euthanize because they are unable to afford the cost of the unblockings (for those of you that don’t know, they are a couple of thousand dollars every time) Rocky’s medical team heard the family’s dilemma and proposed another solution..a PU surgery. A PU (perineal urethrostomy) creates a new urinary opening that decreases the length of the urethra and allows urine to bypass this narrowed region. This significantly reduces the risk of the block happening again. While his family was very interested in this, this surgery unfortunately costs even more than an unblocking so his amazing medical team reached out to @positivetails and we split the cost of surgery with Rocky’s family. 

Surgery was a success and Rocky has been reunited with his family and we hope that his regular emergency visits are behind him. This outcome brought to you by the team effort of one amazing family, one compassionate medical team, and you and your support of our work.

Uncategorized

Happy New Year!

Our biggest thanks to everyone that makes this all possible! Our incredibly generous donors, volunteers (see above!), partner organizations and hospitals, board members, and families who go the extra mile for their beloved animals. Best wishes for the happiest new year!

Emergencies

Jasper

This is the story of how one cat went from very grumpy to a little less grumpy (and if you know cats you know that is a win!)

Jasper’s family rushed him to @vergbrooklyn when he was experiencing a urinary block. At this point his family was very familiar of the signs as it was his third time in less than a year. Jasper’s family had spent everything they had on his previous emergency unblocks at other ER hospitals.We hear this story again and again, families spend so much treating the emergencies at hand and no longer have the funds to pay for a long term solution.

When the medical team suggested a PU (perineal urethrostomy)which would highly decrease the chances of Jasper having another block, his family simply could not afford it and even wondered if euthanasia might be their only option. The medical team luckily decided to contact @positivetails and Jasper’s surgery was approved. 

Jasper did great and is already back home and he is reported to be doing very well.

Emergency care is expensive, multiple emergency visits are even more expensive. Lots of people are working on answers to this situation but until then our goal is to help as many families that need us and we will never lose sight of the fact that the help comes from all of you!