Claw had another spay day to help families in need to sterilise their animals.
As mentioned by Michelle Weedman from Claw, their policy is all animals that come in for treatment have to be sterilised to prevent unwanted litters.
She explained the Tales of Tails team does the sterilisations, Spay SA sponsored the initiative and Claw offers the space.
Taryn Smith along with Innocent Muleya from Tales of Tails took care of the prepping of the animals while Dr Katie Kotze, the team’s vet sterilised them.
She added they have helped Claw do sterilisations before and try to do it as affordable as possible.
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Weedman noted that they were able to do 44 sterilisations, unfortunately not as many as the previous spay day as the cold was a concern.
Dr Kotze said they do everything they can to ensure the sterilisations are done in a clean and hygienic environment and they ‘do everything to the best of their abilities’, however as Claw is a welfare organisation, the people who bring their pets in aren’t able to pay for the surgeries, so they can’t charge them.
“The whole point of outreach and welfare is to make it affordable for the people who are lower income or who don’t have the finances.”
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She also notes it is rather frustrating when people show up at the welfare clinic expecting cheap sterilisations while they have the necessary funds to afford private care, since organisations such as Claw focus on the poorer communities.
Cora Bailey from Claw reiterated this, stating she and Weedman take their own animals to private vets as Claw mainly tries to help the poorer communities and of course the animals who need to be rescued.
“Claw does so much for the whole community, so here we charge as little as we can to cover costs and get as many animals done as we can,” concluded Kotze.
