Hi again, everyone,
It's Radha's Cat Haven in rural West Virginia, reaching out to y'all. We are approximately 2 volunteers operating a cat sanctuary, caring for neglected wild cats in our area.
We're in a bit of a tough spot with medical logistics. Our closest vet is about 25 minutes away, which isn't so bad, but as a tiny team with very limited funds, the cost of standard private practice care and the time spent on multiple round-trips can be very challenging.
Our local vets are standard private practices. They are wonderful, but they aren't set up for "mid-high-volume" TNR prices or the specific needs of unsocialized "wild" cats. For a tiny team like ours, shuttling 2-3 cats at a time for standard office rates isn't sustainable, but the high-volume mobile clinics often skip our areas and are serving areas really far from us. I'm curious if anyone else has found a way to bridge this gap?
Specifically:
- Have you found any success in asking local vets to 'match' a certain number of spay/neuter slots if the sanctuary covers the base medical supplies?
- When a mobile clinic isn't an option, has anyone had luck with 'voucher' programs through larger state organizations that local vets might accept?
Thanks for listening :)
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Beverly Ordonez
Non-Profit Administrator
Radha's Cat Haven
WV
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