Vacant dress shop in Galveston County to the FIX UR PET Spay/neuter Clinic
How did a shuttered Dress Shop become a Spay/Neuter clinic? In 2020, with so many low-cost resources for spay/neuter services closed due to Covid 19, the number of unwanted litters of puppies and kittens exploded.
It wasn’t that people didn’t want to fix their pets, the services were not available. SAVE Rescue had been a founding partner of THE EMPTY SHELTER PROJECT - HOUSTON in 2017, so our volunteers had some experience in what it takes to set up a large, MASH-style veterinary clinic to do spay/neuter surgeries. But the health situation at the time precluded these events because of the large number of people necessary to provide the services for hundreds of animals at one time. So we thought SMALL! What if a small space with limited volunteers could provide the services to the community safely and effectively? Thinking SMALL would help to fix a BIG problem. A vacant dress shop in a local strip center became FIX UR PET-Galveston County during the peak of the health crisis. With equipment purchased with Facebook Fundraisers, donations from other rescue groups and animal loving individuals, the clinic had its first real clinic in October of 2020.
Using a Facebook page and word of mouth, people poured in and the clinic altered, vaccinated and microchipped 2052 animals in the first 15 months of operation for FREE to local residents. Most of the volunteers for the clinic came from the community, cementing our relationship with the people we serve. The veterinarians and vet technicians we employ are skilled at providing high quality, high volume surgery for all the animals we treat. Our Outreach clinics have now become feral cat clinic with the opening of our FIX UR PET Full time access to care clinic which opened in Jan 2024. But during a time of great need, our little makeshift clinic fix 8729 animals for the residents of our Community.
Now Fix ur Pet Wellness and Spay/Neuter Clinic is open 5 days a week to provide low cost spay and neuter services, dental care, many soft tissue surgeries and wellness and minor illness
Our clinic had very meager beginnings, put provided much needed care to the community. Now it has been replaced with a modern fully equipped surgery suite.
Volunteers take on many roles from checking animals in for surgery to monitoring the pets after surgery, to cleaning instruments. Our volunteers allow us to treat more animals at a lower cost because of the time they give to Fix UR Pet.
recovering cats after surgery
Now our clinic is a bright, efficient place for your pets to receive wellness or minor illness or injury exams, get heartworm testing and prevention, and have many soft tissue surgeries. Of course, we still provide low cost spay and neuter services. Our goal is to offer pet owners an affordable option to provide good, basic care for their pets and improve their quality of life.
Located at 4247 FM 1764 in Santa Fe, the clinic is open Mon-Fri. Check us our at Fix Ur Pet
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