{"id":318,"date":"2017-03-07T23:14:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T23:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sfspca.org\/san-francisco-spca-receives-100000-from-petsmart-charities\/"},"modified":"2023-06-05T09:59:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T16:59:05","slug":"san-francisco-spca-receives-100000-from-petsmart-charities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sfspca.org\/press-releases\/san-francisco-spca-receives-100000-from-petsmart-charities\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco SPCA Receives $100,000 from PetSmart Charities\u00ae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong>San Francisco SPCA Receives $100,000 from PetSmart Charities<sup>\u00ae<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Grant to Help Feral and Community Cats<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>The grant will fund efforts to spay\/neuter cats through Trap-Neuter-Return<\/em><\/p>\n<p>March 7, 2017 \u2013 The San Francisco SPCA has received a generous $100,000 grant from PetSmart Charities\u00ae, the leading funder of animal welfare in North America, to help fund spay\/neuter surgeries for feral and community cats in San Francisco. The SF SPCA\u2019s Community Cats Program spays and neuters community cats for free, which effectively controls \u2013 and ultimately reduces \u2013 the population.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re incredibly grateful for the generous support of PetSmart Charities,\u201d said Dr. Jennifer Scarlett, SF SPCA President. \u201cThe SF SPCA spays\/neuters approximately 1,300 community cats each year, and this grant will allow us to have an even bigger positive impact on the community cat population in our city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy spaying and neuter feral and community cats, the SF SPCA is taking a proactive approach to reducing the overpopulation of pets in the community,\u201d said Jenny Aho, regional relationship manager at PetSmart Charities. \u201cPetSmart Charities is proud to support their efforts to end pet homelessness and help local pets in need with this grant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The grant funds the SF SPCA\u2019s Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) program, which is the most humane and effective way to control the community cat population. With TNR, feral and free-roaming cats are caught in humane box traps, spayed\/neutered, vaccinated, and then returned to where they were found to live out their lives as healthy, altered, vaccinated Community Cats. TNR improves cats\u2019 lives: it helps to stabilize cat colony populations (no more kittens!) and eliminates mating behaviors like fighting and yowling.<\/p>\n<p>Since its inception in 1998, the SF SPCA\u2019s Community Cats Program has served more than 17,800 feral and free-roaming cats. The program has made a dramatic impact on cat intake in the city of San Francisco. San Francisco Animal Care and Control, the local open admissions municipal shelter, has reported a significant reduction in cat intake since the Community Cats Program launched in 1998 \u2013 including a 14 percent decrease from 2011-2014.<\/p>\n<p>PetSmart Charities aims to proactively prevent pet homelessness through increased spay and neuter efforts.\u00a0 With the help of animal welfare partners, such as the SF SPCA, PetSmart Charities has funded over 1.4 million spay and neuter surgeries in the U.S. since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfspca.org\/communitycats\">sfspca.org\/communitycats<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>San Francisco SPCA<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The San Francisco SPCA is an independent, community-supported, non-profit animal welfare organization dedicated to saving, protecting and providing immediate care for cats and dogs who are homeless, ill or in need of an advocate. The SF SPCA also works long-term to educate the community, reduce the number of unwanted kittens and puppies through spaying and neutering, and improve the quality of life for animals and their human companions. The organization does not receive government funding and is not affiliated with any national organization.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about San Francisco pet adoption, call the SF SPCA at (415) 522-3500 or visit\u00a0<a title=\"sfspca.org\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sfspca.org\/\">sfspca.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>About PetSmart Charities\u00ae<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PetSmart Charities, Inc. is a nonprofit animal welfare organization that saves the lives of homeless pets.\u00a0 Each year nearly 500,000 dogs and cats find homes through our adoption program in all PetSmart\u00ae stores across the U.S. and sponsored adoption events.\u00a0 Each year millions of PetSmart shoppers contribute to PetSmart Charities to help pets in need by making donations on a pin pad at the register.\u00a0 PetSmart Charities efficiently uses 90 cents of every dollar to support its mission of finding lifelong, loving homes for all pets.\u00a0 PetSmart Charities grants more money to directly help pets in need than any other animal welfare group in North America, with a focus on funding adoption and spay\/neuter programs that help communities solve pet overpopulation.\u00a0 PetSmart Charities is a 501(c)(3) organization, independent from PetSmart, Inc.\u00a0 PetSmart Charities has received the Four Star Rating for the past 13 years from Charity Navigator, an independent nonprofit that reports on the effectiveness, accountability and transparency of nonprofits, placing it among the top one percent of charities rated by this organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco SPCA Receives $100,000 from PetSmart Charities\u00ae Grant to Help Feral and Community Cats The grant will fund efforts to spay\/neuter cats through Trap-Neuter-Return March 7, 2017 \u2013 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - 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