What's Needed: a Working Spay/Neuteur Ordinance

"...issue with this whole debate is this: A working spay/neuter ordinance would do so much more for lowering the..."

June 19, 2007 Postmarks

Time For A Spay/Neuter Ordinance

"...the city to look into passing some sort of spay/neuter ordinance? The boards of directors at Emancipet, the Austin..."

Oct. 9, 2012 Postmarks

We Need Spay/Neuter Laws

"...idea how many of them went out without being spayed/neutered? It is just easier to give away the kittens..."

Aug. 10, 2012 Postmarks

Austin Needs a Spay/Neuter Ordinance

"...sadly disappointed that no one is talking about a spay/neuter ordinance. For a progressive city like Austin, it saddens..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Postmarks

Austin Needs Spay/Neuter Ordinance

"...35 other cities have done and pass an enforceable spay/neuter ordinance. Without that ordinance in effect, the taxpayers of..."

May 4, 2010 Postmarks

Time to Pass a Spay/Neuter Ordinance

"...8]. There is no reason not to pass a spay/neuter ordinance except that dog and cat breeders are afraid..."

Aug. 14, 2008 Postmarks

Spay/Neuter Laws Help Budgets

"...the only two large cities in Texas without a spay/neuter ordinance, and Lubbock expects to pass one this year...."

Aug. 4, 2010 Postmarks

Spay/Neuter Law Would Save Money

"...Dear Editor, If the City Council had passed the spay/neuter ordinance put in front of them four years ago..."

May 19, 2010 Postmarks

Austin Should Pass a Spay/Neuter Law

"...Antonio, Dallas, Plano, and Fort Worth have all passed spay/neuter laws. About 35 other cities, including Seattle, Los Angeles,..."

Nov. 25, 2009 Postmarks

City Should Not Cut Funding for Free Spay/Neuter Program

"...if it cuts or eliminates funding to Emancipet’s free spay/neuter program, which provides 4,000 free pet sterilizations of Austin..."

June 29, 2009 Postmarks

Spay and Neuter

"...cats at TLAC is now 70%. What to do? Spay and neuter! Increase public education. Pressure and encourage landlords..."

Nov. 28, 2005 Postmarks

Spay Austin

Nov. 21, 2005 Postmarks

Don't Shoot the Messenger, Spay Your Pet

Nov. 22, 2005 Postmarks

Potential Neuter to Austin’s No-Kill?

The rules dictating when city animal shelters should spay or neuter lost pets may be changing, and may have an effect on the future of no-kill shelters

"...and board, and a $50 fine to avoid a spay/neuter. City code currently gives the Animal Services director the..."

Nov. 18, 2016 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Best Alternative To Teaching Fido To Use A Condom

TIE: Emancipet Low-Cost Mobile Spay and Neuter Clinic; Animal Trustees of Austin Low Cost Spay/Neuter Clinic

"...us. Animal Trustees of Austin runs a low-cost, nonprofit spay-and-neuter clinic, with surgery done by a licensed DVM. Since..."

Sept. 15, 2000 Best of Austin Feature

Cat Trap Fever

Austin Humane Society needs help taming feral cat population

"...And in the absence of an ordinance that requires spay/neuter of pets, there are a lot of reproducing cats..."

July 20, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

What Happened to the No-Kill Millennium?

Austin's plan to end wholesale euthanasia at Town Lake shelter remains a distant dream

"...original document. "The kennel clubs, cat fanciers, and the spay-neuter groups could all be part of the document. That's..."

Nov. 18, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

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Our readers talk back.

"...exposé is what it takes to get people to spay and neuter their pets – and any other animal..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Column

Five Years of No-Kill in Austin

What has the city learned about animal welfare, and how far does it have to go?

"...oversaw a series of contentious hearings concerning a mandatory spay/neuter ordinance on first impound. That means if an intact..."

Dec. 23, 2016 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Pet Sterilization Dogs City and Retailer

Hey, kitten, wanna get spayed?

"...taken so long to get nowhere in passing a spay/neuter ordinance?..."

April 11, 2008 News Feature by Patricia J. Ruland

Dogs and Cats Can't Put on a Condom

"...needless end result of what happens when people don't spay and neuter their pets. As a humane educator for..."

Nov. 23, 2005 Postmarks

Animal Friendly

"...programs in the metro area as well as the spay/neuter issue [“City Searches for a Feral Cat Fix,” News,..."

April 5, 2005 Postmarks

The Daily Hustle: 12/8/10

Raining cats and dogs on the animal welfare front

"...the following with a value of more than $200: Spay and neuter surgery. All vaccinations, including a one-year rabies..."

Dec. 8, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

City Searches for a Feral Cat Fix

Volunteers fight market forces and nature to control stray population

"...year of painstaking trapping, all these cats have been spayed or neutered. And, as Smith is fond of pointing..."

March 25, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

In Deep Sorrow for the Animal Community of Austin

"...do everything he can to kill or limit free spay/neuter programs in Austin. Good people were asleep at the..."

April 23, 2007 Postmarks

We Need a Law

"...to step up to the plate and support mandatory spay/neuter. Here is why we need a law instructing people..."

Nov. 29, 2005 Postmarks

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...year. One of the causes, say animal rescue and spay-neuter groups, is the lack of an ordinance requiring people..."

Sept. 16, 2005 News Feature

Lots of Animals, Lots of Love

Animal adoption specials this weekend at AHS and AAC

"...adopters on all kittens and cats. All animals are spay/neutered and up-to-date on vaccinations. The shelter is open from..."

Sept. 28, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

The Unflinching Abigail Smith

New animal services chief faces up to Austin's shelter warfare

"...really achieve no-kill status without some kind of comprehensive spay/neuter law? And has Smith's experience as director of the..."

March 25, 2011 News Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

No-Kill Concerns

"...major U.S. cities where they have passed a workable spay/neuter ordinance, the largest percentage of animals entering their shelters..."

March 2, 2010 Postmarks

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