Q: With so many great organizations to support, why should others support Mississippi Spay and Neuter? A: Mississippi Say and Neuter, helps MISSISSIPPI Animals. And that helps Mississippi to be a better place to live.
Q: Without access to affordable spay/neuter, what would you have done? Who/what would have suffered? A: Without affordable spay and neutering I would not have been able to have many pet rescues fixed. They would have bred and then their offspring bred, this multiplies fast. So many pets that I have kept or rescued and found homes for would have led much sadder lives. The pet population is not just a number—It represents sick, starving scared and homeless animals. All of whom suffer. They don’t deserve that, they give so much love unconditionally.
Claire Downs
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2018-07-25 16:01:34 -0500
Q: Tell us about a specific animal or animals who used our services. A: My female cat
Claire Downs
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2018-07-25 16:01:10 -0500
Q: What do you wish that other people knew about us? A: Drop off/pick up dates for Vicksburg,MS.
Claire Downs
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2018-07-25 16:00:17 -0500
Q: When did you first hear about MS SPAN and/or the Big Fix Clinic? A: 2016
Q: What is the animal's life like now? A: Her name is Misty. She is happy—a bit over-weight, and loves my husband and me. She has the three kittens, all grown and bigger than her now. She loves them and still plays with them and bathes them. She is an inside outside kitty and we lover her.
Q: Do you remember the first time you saw the animal (when you decided to adopt)? What was their physical and emotional state like? A: I’ll tell about the skinny pregnant yellow tabby. The first time I saw her, she was scavenging behind my dog’s pen. She was eating old cat food that I’d thrown out, because the weather was so hot, I was afraid it had spoiled. I called but she kept on eating— picking little kibbles from beneath the grass. She was starving. I went and got some fresh food and water for her. After she ate she went back into the brush but stayed close as I called to her. She came to me and let me catch her. She had ad scar on the top of her head and was fur and bones. Now years latter she is a demure and sweet natured member of our family.
Vicki Lowers
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2018-07-25 15:45:08 -0500
Q: Is there anything else you would like to share? A: Thanks for what you do.
Vicki Lowers
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2018-07-25 15:44:47 -0500
Q: How did you learn about spay and neuter and its importance? Was there a life event that changed your views? A: Every animal should be wanted and cared for with love and compassion. I had no idea that “dumping” puppies, kittens and dogs and cats in rural Hinds County was commonplace until I moved to the country and saw it happening with alarming frequency. The majority of these animals don’t survive the first day. They are either hit by cars, attacked by other animals or starve. Much of this would not happen if people spayed and neutered.
Q: Tell us about a specific animal or animals who used our services. A: Oh, my goodness! You all have spayed or neutered so many animals for me. I live in a rural area, and I have rescued may strays. I remember when a skinny cat showed up in my back yard a couple of years ago. I feed her, and soon she was VERY chubby! Pregnant on arrival! :) After she gave birth to her three yellow babies, you all fixed her. Later, as soon as they were ready, you fixed her kittens. One male kitten Tigger had a large hernia and you all fixed that too! I can’ thank you all enough.
Q: What do you wish that other people knew about us? A: I wish so many people knew that you all help out with spay and neutering at low prices or even free. You HELP so many animals. No animal needs to have unwanted offspring, or reproductive illnesses or deaths, when these sad events can be prevented.
Q: Is there anything else you would like to share? A: The staff that called to confirm information about my spaying for my dog Zoey was helpful and friendly.
Q: How did you learn about spay and neuter and its importance? Was there a life event that changed your views? A: No. Just knew I wasn’t financially able to prepare myself and my dog for puppies.
Q: With so many great organizations to support, why should others support Mississippi Spay and Neuter? A: There are so many abandoned/in need animals at shelters and rescues. If all animals were spayed and neutered, there would be less problems with overflow at shelters, possible euthanizations, etc.
Q: Without access to affordable spay/neuter, what would you have done? Who/what would have suffered? A: I would have found the means necessary to get it done at full price, but it would have taken longer to accumulate the funds for spaying.
Vicki Lowers
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2018-07-25 15:35:45 -0500
Q: With so many great organizations to support, why should others support Mississippi Spay and Neuter? A: Mississippi Spay and Neuter is not judgmental. They meet all pet owners with the same amount of respect regardless of the ability to pay and treat every pet as special regardless of breed or condition. That is not always the case with other organizations.
Q: Do you remember the first time you saw the animal (when you decided to adopt)? What was their physical and emotional state like? A: Scared. Zoey had been moved around from an ill family members home to other homes.
Q: When did you first hear about MS SPAN and/or the Big Fix Clinic? A: About four or five years ago from a lady I met while I was having a dog I rescued from the side of the road spayed.
Q: Tell us about a specific animal or animals who used our services. A: My dog Zoey. She is an almost 2 year old Maltese. I took my certificate and Zoey to Delta Animal Services in Cleveland, MS. They spayed Zoey for me. It was a wonderful experience.
Q: When did you first hear about MS SPAN and/or the Big Fix Clinic? A: March 2018
Vicki Lowers
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2018-07-25 15:32:54 -0500
Q: Without access to affordable spay/neuter, what would you have done? Who/what would have suffered? A: All my pets haven been spayed or neutered. It is very important to me and they would have been, regardless of whether I had access to the Big Fix. I am fortunate to have a long-term relationship with an excellent vet clinic and regardless of MY circumstances, have always managed to raise the needed funds. Unfortunately that is not often the case. Without an income based fee schedule, many people would not spay or neuter.
Vicki Lowers
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2018-07-25 15:24:42 -0500
Q: What is the animal's life like now? A: My dogs have a life most people would envy. A large fenced, well-shaded backyard in the country where they can go and play if they choose but they spend the largest part of the day inside and are always in at night. My partner is home during the day so they have people company as well as other pets.
Vicki Lowers
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2018-07-25 15:20:01 -0500
Q: Do you remember the first time you saw the animal (when you decided to adopt)? What was their physical and emotional state like? A: Bandit was a puppy that my brother kept from a litter his daughter bred to sell and he came to me as a grown dog but I have known him since he was born. He has always been cared for with love. He got out shortly after he cane to live with me and before he was neutered, he bred a neighbor’s dog. Poppy was the only puppy that dog’s owner allowed me to take because she had mange at 5 weeks old. She was the only puppy to survive.
Vicki Lowers
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2018-07-25 15:12:21 -0500
Q: Tell us about a specific animal or animals who used our services. A: Both my Australian Shepherd, Bandit and later his “love child” , Poppy were clients. Both were microchipped as well as neutered/spayed and both received Rabies shots while there.
Vicki Lowers
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2018-07-25 15:09:23 -0500
Q: What do you wish that other people knew about us? A: Pet over-population is an enormous problem in the South. I hear so often that the cost of “fixing” a pet is too expensive. I wish that people knew that there was a place that is both safe and cost effective.
Vicki Lowers
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2018-07-25 15:06:14 -0500
Q: When did you first hear about MS SPAN and/or the Big Fix Clinic? A: I honestly can not remember. I probably heard about it from someone who knew of my habit of rescuing and rehoming dogs abandoned near my house in the country.
Hester Pitts
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2018-07-25 15:05:47 -0500
Q: With so many great organizations to support, why should others support Mississippi Spay and Neuter? A: this country desperately needs to solve the animal population growth
Hester Pitts
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2018-07-25 15:05:06 -0500
Q: Without access to affordable spay/neuter, what would you have done? Who/what would have suffered? A: since both were males I might have been hesitant to have them fixed
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A: Mississippi Say and Neuter, helps MISSISSIPPI Animals. And that helps Mississippi to be a better place to live.
A: Without affordable spay and neutering I would not have been able to have many pet rescues fixed. They would have bred and then their offspring bred, this multiplies fast. So many pets that I have kept or rescued and found homes for would have led much sadder lives. The pet population is not just a number—It represents sick, starving scared and homeless animals. All of whom suffer. They don’t deserve that, they give so much love unconditionally.
A: My female cat
A: Drop off/pick up dates for Vicksburg,MS.
A: 2016
A: Her name is Misty. She is happy—a bit over-weight, and loves my husband and me. She has the three kittens, all grown and bigger than her now. She loves them and still plays with them and bathes them. She is an inside outside kitty and we lover her.
A: I’ll tell about the skinny pregnant yellow tabby. The first time I saw her, she was scavenging behind my dog’s pen. She was eating old cat food that I’d thrown out, because the weather was so hot, I was afraid it had spoiled. I called but she kept on eating— picking little kibbles from beneath the grass. She was starving. I went and got some fresh food and water for her. After she ate she went back into the brush but stayed close as I called to her. She came to me and let me catch her. She had ad scar on the top of her head and was fur and bones. Now years latter she is a demure and sweet natured member of our family.
A: Thanks for what you do.
A: Every animal should be wanted and cared for with love and compassion. I had no idea that “dumping” puppies, kittens and dogs and cats in rural Hinds County was commonplace until I moved to the country and saw it happening with alarming frequency. The majority of these animals don’t survive the first day. They are either hit by cars, attacked by other animals or starve. Much of this would not happen if people spayed and neutered.
A: Oh, my goodness! You all have spayed or neutered so many animals for me. I live in a rural area, and I have rescued may strays. I remember when a skinny cat showed up in my back yard a couple of years ago. I feed her, and soon she was VERY chubby! Pregnant on arrival! :) After she gave birth to her three yellow babies, you all fixed her. Later, as soon as they were ready, you fixed her kittens. One male kitten Tigger had a large hernia and you all fixed that too! I can’ thank you all enough.
A: I wish so many people knew that you all help out with spay and neutering at low prices or even free. You HELP so many animals. No animal needs to have unwanted offspring, or reproductive illnesses or deaths, when these sad events can be prevented.
A: The staff that called to confirm information about my spaying for my dog Zoey was helpful and friendly.
A: No. Just knew I wasn’t financially able to prepare myself and my dog for puppies.
A: There are so many abandoned/in need animals at shelters and rescues. If all animals were spayed and neutered, there would be less problems with overflow at shelters, possible euthanizations, etc.
A: I would have found the means necessary to get it done at full price, but it would have taken longer to accumulate the funds for spaying.
A: Mississippi Spay and Neuter is not judgmental. They meet all pet owners with the same amount of respect regardless of the ability to pay and treat every pet as special regardless of breed or condition. That is not always the case with other organizations.
A: Wonderful. While I work M-F 8-5pm, my parents keeps her at their house. She is spoiled and enjoys herself.
A: Scared. Zoey had been moved around from an ill family members home to other homes.
A: About four or five years ago from a lady I met while I was having a dog I rescued from the side of the road spayed.
A: My dog Zoey. She is an almost 2 year old Maltese. I took my certificate and Zoey to Delta Animal Services in Cleveland, MS. They spayed Zoey for me. It was a wonderful experience.
A: How easy and affordable it is to get your pet spayed or neutered
A: March 2018
A: All my pets haven been spayed or neutered. It is very important to me and they would have been, regardless of whether I had access to the Big Fix. I am fortunate to have a long-term relationship with an excellent vet clinic and regardless of MY circumstances, have always managed to raise the needed funds. Unfortunately that is not often the case. Without an income based fee schedule, many people would not spay or neuter.
A: My dogs have a life most people would envy. A large fenced, well-shaded backyard in the country where they can go and play if they choose but they spend the largest part of the day inside and are always in at night. My partner is home during the day so they have people company as well as other pets.
A: Bandit was a puppy that my brother kept from a litter his daughter bred to sell and he came to me as a grown dog but I have known him since he was born. He has always been cared for with love. He got out shortly after he cane to live with me and before he was neutered, he bred a neighbor’s dog. Poppy was the only puppy that dog’s owner allowed me to take because she had mange at 5 weeks old. She was the only puppy to survive.
A: Both my Australian Shepherd, Bandit and later his “love child” , Poppy were clients. Both were microchipped as well as neutered/spayed and both received Rabies shots while there.
A: Pet over-population is an enormous problem in the South. I hear so often that the cost of “fixing” a pet is too expensive. I wish that people knew that there was a place that is both safe and cost effective.
A: I honestly can not remember. I probably heard about it from someone who knew of my habit of rescuing and rehoming dogs abandoned near my house in the country.
A: this country desperately needs to solve the animal population growth
A: since both were males I might have been hesitant to have them fixed