6234 Spays and Neuters Completed!
This page was last updated 2-12-07
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The Holly Help Memorial Spay Fund is a Bristol based organization which
focuses on the spay sterilization surgeries for dogs and cats. We were
founded in the Spring of 2001 and maintain a 501c3 tax exempt status.
We rely mainly on the money received from recycling aluminum cans to
fund our surgeries. We are all volunteers and Holly Help pays no
salaries.
As of May 2005, the Holly Help Memorial Spay Fund has paid for in
full or subsidized in part, the sterilization surgeries for over SIX
THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY FOUR animals! Because one unspayed female
animal can produce between 50,000 and 350,000 offspring in a 5 year
period, our sterilization rate thus far will make a very substantial
dent in the overpopulation rate of cats and dogs in our community.
We have successfully recycled approximately 46 tons of aluminum cans
which were generously donated to us by the animal-friendly public! The
proceeds were used to pay for the surgeries of these animals. It takes
approximately 4000 aluminum cans to pay for the surgery of one animal.
Holly Help is very sympathetic to the myriad of tragic circumstances that plague our four legged brothers and sisters. God only knows that animals have a lot of real problems and very few real friends. Issues such as, helping to return lost pets to their owners, providing dog houses to animals that are tied out in inclement weather, implementing more stringent laws to protect animals against those who probably shouldn't own them and educating the public on proper animal care, do not go unnoticed by Holly Help.
Although Holly Help is not in the business of performing the
functions of a full service humane society, we have none-the-less lent
ourselves to a variety of circumstances involving animal welfare
issues. In this area, Holly Help is certainly no stranger to the street
and has been found climbing ladders to rescue stranded baby birds,
providing emergency housing for displaced cats, assisting low income
families with spay neuter assistance, standing in the rain and snow to
trap and sterilize feral cat colonies and even trod well-used railroad
tracks to rescue a senile, wandering dog. Holly Help has and continues
to provide pet food (when available), to needy, hungry animals in the
community and has been the front-line factor in many pet adoptions
through our 'Match Made In Heaven Program'. We have provided shelters
to needy dogs and continue to be instrumental in providing the monthly
materials needed by other mutual humane societies who in turn, assemble
these shelters and distribute them to needy pets. For cases which
warrant more assistance than Holly Help is equipped to offer, we stand
ready to refer pets with problems to those organizations and agencies
that are being paid for their services to animals and for which the
tax-paying and dollar-donating public expect them to respond in a
timely manner. Holly Help has labored, hand-in-hand with other local
and area humane societies to increase the degree of relief provided to
our local animals. All of this was accomplished on a non-paid and
strictly volunteer basis. We are proud to harmoniously associate our
efforts with The Animal Defense League of Washington County, Johnson
County Humane Society, The Humane Society of Greater Sullivan County,
The Sullivan County Animal Shelter, Noah's Ark Therapy Dogs, Friends of
Shelters and the Virginia Federation of Humane Societies, to mention
just a few.
An efficient Director of any organization realizes that when faced with
limited funds, resources and manpower, it makes sound managerial sense
to provide the greatest amount of relief to the highest number of
animals possible. This can ONLY be accomplished through a "get tough"
spay-neuter program. We at Holly Help realize that reducing the number
of animals burn will automatically reduce the incidents of problems
that continue to exist for dogs and cats. In other words, it doesn't
take a rocket scientist to figure out that an animal cannot be abused
or neglected if it had never been born to begin with! Therefore,
through our very aggressive spay-neuter program, we have already
provided relief to many, many animals. Spay-neuter is, (or at least
should be), the heart and soul of any and all animal welfare movements,
lest the travails of animals see us all into our graves, and beyond.
These two issues, that of spay-neuter and that of animal welfare, are
so tightly bound to one another that it would be irrational to think of
one without instinctively thinking of the other as the first-line
defense in helping animals. A sound spay-neuter program is the very
back-bone and foundation of animal welfare.
If you take a look at our healthy record of the total number of spay and neuter surgeries and multiply that by the unborn litters of l00,000 for just a 5 year period, (you'd better have a mighty big calculator), you can easily see the staggering number of animals that have been helped in the quickest possible time, with the least amount of manpower, and using the minimum amount of money. And we did all of this by simply recycling aluminum cans. Can you imagine what we could have done if we had "real money" to work with?
An ounce of prevention is very well worth a pound of cure . Don't let anyone tell you different!
Holly Help Memorial Spay Fund
P. O. Box 1264
Bristol, VA 24203
Phone: 276-466-5375
You can also find us at: http://www.petfinder.org/shelters/VA195.html
SPAY AND NEUTER!
Our mission is to actively seek the prevention of births of unwanted puppies and kittens in our community and to vigorously pursue this endeavor until pet overpopulation no longer exists!
ANIMAL DEATH FACTS:
- Animal Control agencies and animal shelters receive approximately l0 million animals per year.
- Across the nation, shelter workers are forced to kill one dog or cat every six and half seconds.
- Every day in America, 20,000 dogs and cats are euthanized (put to death).
- Every year, over 5 million animals across the U.S. are destroyed
because they fell victim to the #1 Killer In America being unwanted.
- Every week, an average of l00 innocent dogs, cats, puppies and
kittens are administered a lethal injection in the animals shelters
that service the Bristol area. The only crime these animals were guilty
of was being born into a world where there wasn't enough homes.
