Animal Friends for Education and Welfare
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Make a homeless dog a little more comfortable. Donate a Kuranda Bed and get a dog off the concrete floor!
Our cats love to sleep on Kuranda cat beds, but we don't have enough for everyone. If you would like to donate a bed at a special wholesale price for a another cat to sleep in comfort, please donate a Kuranda cat bed
FIND YOUR LOST PETS!!!
OTHER FRIENDS!!!
Animal Friends for Education and Welfare (AFEW) periodically sponsors low cost spay/neuter clinics for cats and dogs utilizing the mobile spay/neuter van and veterinary staff from the Animal Welfare Association. Surgeries are available by appointment only.
Clinics are held at the Hamilton Animal Shelter in Hamilton, New Jersey. If you need to have your pet altered at a different time or if our appointments are all filled, you might consider checking with Ace of Spays spay/neuter clinic or Friends of Animals which provides low-cost certificates for veteriarians in your area.
It's a fact: Every time a person is born in America, so are 15 dogs and 45 cats, too many for the number of available homes.
- Spaying and neutering helps dogs and cats live longer, healthier lives.
- Spaying and neutering can eliminate or reduce the incidence of a number of health problems that can be very difficult or expensive to treat.
- Spaying eliminates the possibility of uterine or ovarian cancer and greatly reduces the incidence of breast cancer, particularly when your pet is spayed before her first estrous cycle.
- Neutering eliminates testicular cancer and decreases the incidence of prostate disease and anal tumors.
- Spaying and neutering makes pets better, more affectionate companions.
- Neutering cats makes them less likely to spray and mark territory.
- Spaying a dog or cat eliminates her heat cycle. Estrus lasts an average of six to 12 days, often twice a year, in dogs and an average of six to seven days, three or more times a year, in cats. Females in heat can cry incessantly, show nervous behavior, and attract unwanted male animals.
- Unsterilized animals often exhibit more behavior and temperament problems than do those who have been spayed or neutered.
- Spaying and neutering can make pets less likely to bite.
- Neutering makes pets less likely to roam the neighborhood, run away, or get into fights.
- Communities spend millions of dollars to control unwanted animals.
- Irresponsible breeding contributes to the problem of dog bites and attacks.
- Animal shelters are overburdened with surplus animals.
- Stray pets and homeless animals get into trash containers, defecate in public areas or on private lawns, and frighten or anger people who have no understanding of their misery or needs.
- Some stray animals also scare away or kill birds and wildlife.
