South Dakota West River Spay/Neuter Coalition

Clinics and Vouchers

Fix your cat at a Clinic for $35/female, $25/male

1. Pre-register your cat for a clinic, or call 605-593-5550 to sign up. Scroll down to see when our next clinic will be held.

2. Talk to a Coalition volunteer.

3. Go to the clinic. We work with top Black Hills vets who care about animals and want to save animal lives.

4. Give yourself a pat on the back for saving pet lives.

clinic
Karen Darby (Canyon Colony), Shari Rose, Sweetgrass Inn (Coalition Board
Member, clinic organizer), and Mary McEriff (Valley Colony)

More pictures below, thank you Shari Rose!

Upcoming Clinics

e-mail for details and updated clinic information.

You can spay or neuter your pet at one of our clinics for $35 for females, $25 for males. Click on the veterinarian link for a handy map to the clinic.

We also provide vouchers for reduced cost spay/neuter, primarily for feral cats.

Past Clinics

Spay and Neuter Facts
Based on statistics published at the Humane Society of the United States website (2006):

Feline average years of fertility: 7
Average number of litters a fertile cat can produce in one year: 3
Average number of kittens in a feline litter: 4-6
Average cost to shelter a stray cat for the three required days, plus euthanasia and disposal: $70 per cat. (Note: this cost does not include feral trapping and transport by animal control officers.)
In 2008, when the Coalition began to offer spay/neuter clinics, 69% of the cats taken in at the Humane Society of the Black Hills were euthanized. In 2010, only 49% were euthanized.
In actual numbers, 50% fewer cats were euthanized in 2010 than were euthanized in 2008.
See a chart of Coalition spay/neuter effectiveness on shelter deaths here.

Cumulative Totals

Year	Total Surgeries	Kittens Prevented	Euthansia Rate	Lives Saved (expected euthanasias at baseline euthanasia rate minus euthanasias at current rate)	Direct Costs Averted (estimating $70 per euthanasia)
2012 (incomplete)	147	15,435	not yet calculated	not yet calculated	not yet calculated
2011	768	80,640	46%	776*	$54,344.00
2010	680	71,400	49%	514*	$35,948.00
2009	434	44,570	61%	223*	$15,608.00
2008	370	38,850	69%	-8*	$-561.00
2007	303	31,815	67%	80*	$5,579.00
2006	236	24,780	69%	baseline*	baseline
TOTAL	2,910	605,550		1,572	$110,918.00

euthanasia rate Humane Society of the Black Hills Number of Cats Altered by the Coalition

* Shelter data courtesy of the Humane Society of the Black Hills

TOTALS FOR 2012

TOTALS FOR 2011

Date	City	Participating Vet	Total	Females	Males	Ferals	Kittens Prevented	Feral Kittens Prevented
January 3, 2011	Rapid City	Animal Clinic of Rapid City	11	6	5		1155	0
January 7, 2011	Rapid City	Animal Clinic of Rapid City	20	11	9	18	2100	1890
January 8, 2011	Rapid City	Humane Society of the Black Hills	6	4	2	6	630	630
January 11, 2011	Spearfish	Spearfish Animal Hospital	19	8	11		1995	0
January 22, 2011	Black Hawk	Wendy Howard, DVM	24	12	12	24	2520	2520
January 29, 2011	Belle Fourche	Belle Fourche Veterinary Clinic	17	9	8		1785	0
January 29, 2011	Keystone	Lloyd Emond, DVM	2	2	0	2	210	210
February 1, 2011	Rapid City	Humane Society of the Black Hills	10	7	3	10	1050	1050
February 7, 2011	Rapid City	Animal Clinic of Rapid City	14	8	6	7	1470	735
February 8, 2011	Belle Fourche	Belle Fourche Veterinary Clinic	14	8	6		1470	0
February 8, 2011	Rapid City	Humane Society of the Black Hills	6	4	2	6	630	630
February 19, 2011	Black Hawk	Wendy Howard, DVM	7	4	3	4	735	420
February 22, 2011	Rapid City	Animal Clinic of Rapid City	7	5	2		735	0
February 22, 2011	Rapid City	Humane Society of the Black Hills	10	5	5	10	1050	1050
March 8, 2011	Rapid City	Humane Society of the Black Hills	5	3	2	5	525	525
March 11, 2011	Rapid City	Animal Clinic of Rapid City	16	8	8	12	1680	1260
March 12, 2011	Black Hawk	Wendy Howard, DVM	9	6	3	3	945	315
March 14, 2011	Spearfish	Metzger Holcomb Animal Clinic	13	7	6	5	1365	525
March 15, 2011	Rapid City	Humane Society of the Black Hills	8	3	5	8	840	840
March 19, 2011	Keystone	Lloyd Emond, DVM	7	4	3	7	735	735
March 22, 2011	Rapid City	Humane Society of the Black Hills	11	3	8	11	1155	1155
March 25, 2011	Rapid City	Animal Clinic of Rapid City	11	7	4	5	1155	525
April 5, 2011	Rapid City	Humane Society of the Black Hills	8	7	1	8	840	840
April 8, 2011	Rapid City	Animal Clinic of Rapid City	15	7	8	10	1575	1050
April 12, 2011	Spearfish	Spearfish Animal Hospital	18	4	14		1890	0
April 16, 2011	Keystone	Lloyd Emond, DVM	21	5	16	21	2205	2205
April 16, 2011	Black Hawk	Wendy Howard, DVM	10	5	5	6	1050	630
April 19, 2011	Rapid City	Humane Society of the Black Hills	9	6	3	9	945	945
April 19, 2011	Spearfish	Spearfish Animal Hospital	9	4	5		945	0
May 1, 2011	Rapid City	Animal Clinic of Rapid City	11	5	6	6	1155	630
May 2, 2011	Rapid City	Humane Society of the Black Hills	9	7	2	9	945	945
May 16, 2011	Rapid City	Humane Society of the Black Hills	7	5	2	7	735	735
May 21, 2011	Keystone	Lloyd Emond, DVM	11	7	4	11	1155	1155
May 30, 2011	Rapid City	Humane Society of the Black Hills	10	6	4	10	1050	1050
June 6, 2011	Rapid City	Animal Clinic of Rapid City	9	4	5	6	945	630
June 7, 2011	Rapid City	Humane Society of the Black Hills	2	2	0	2	210	210
July 9, 2011	Keystone	Lloyd Emond, DVM	5	4	1	5	525	525
July 12, 2011	Spearfish	Spearfish Animal Hospital	14	9	5		1470	0
August 17, 2011	Spearfish	Metzger Holcomb Animal Clinic	12	9	3	3	1260	315
September 12, 2011	Rapid City	Animal Clinic of Rapid City	9	7	2	2	945	210
September 13, 2011	Belle Fourche	Belle Fourche Veterinary Clinic	10	6	4	0	1050	0
October 8, 2011	Black Hawk	Wendy Howard, DVM	14	6	8	2	1470	210
October 11, 2011	Spearfish	Spearfish Animal Hospital	16	9	7	0	1680	0
October 14, 2011	Rapid City	Humane Society of the Black Hills	9	7	2	24	945	2520
October 21, 2011	Rapid City	Humane Society of the Black Hills	9	5	4	9	945	945
October 21, 2011	Rapid City	Lloyd Emond, DVM	2	2	0	2	210	210
November 4, 2011	Black Hawk	Wendy Howard, DVM	8	6	2	8	840	840
November 7, 2011	Rapid City	Animal Clinic of Rapid City	16	9	7	0	1680	0
November 11, 2011	Black Hawk	Wendy Howard, DVM	5	1	4	5	525	525
November 12, 2011	Keystone	Lloyd Emond, DVM	2	2	0	0	210	0
November 16, 2011	Black Hawk	Wendy Howard, DVM	5	4	1	5	525	525
November 17, 2011	Black Hawk	Wendy Howard, DVM	13	6	7	0	1365	0
November 14, 2011	Spearfish	Metzger Holcomb Animal Clinic	10	9	1	1	1050	105
November 23, 2011	Rapid City	Lloyd Emond, DVM	19	7	12	19	1995	1995
December 8, 2011	Rapid City	Animal Clinic of Rapid City	16	9	7	12	1680	1260
December 14, 2011	Rapid City	Wendy Howard, DVM	21	9	7	12	2205	630
Total	.	.	611	338	273	351	64,155	36,855
Vouchers	.	.	157	95	62	80	16,485	8,400
Grand Total	.	.	768	433	335	431	80,640	45,255

TOTALS FOR 2010

Date	City	Participating Vet	Total	Females	Males
January 6th	Edgemont	Cheyenne River Animal Hospital	7	4	3
January 13th	Spearfish	Spearfish Animal Hospital	10	7	3
January 15th	Rapid City	Animal Clinic of Rapid City	19	8	11
January 23rd	Black Hawk	Wendy Howard, DVM	14	8	6
February 6th	Black Hawk	Wendy Howard, DVM	13	8	5
February 9th	Belle Fourche	Belle Fourche Veterinary Clinic	17	9	8
February 22nd	Rapid City	Animal Clinic of Rapid City	22	8	14
February 27th	Black Hawk	Wendy Howard, DVM	17	9	8
March 1st	Spearfish	Metzger Holcomb Animal Clinic	10	6	4
March 13th	Rapid City	Wendy Howard, DVM	21	10	11
March 22nd	Rapid City	Animal Clinic of Rapid City	19	6	13
March 27th	Black Hawk	Wendy Howard, DVM	17	7	10
April 13th	Spearfish	Spearfish Animal Hospital	16	7	9
April 21st	Custer	Southern Hills Animal Clinic	11	1	10
April 24th	Black Hawk	Wendy Howard, DVM	12	2	10
May 4th	Belle Fourche	Belle Fourche Veterinary Clinic	17	8	9
May 7th	Rapid City	Animal Clinic of Rapid City	10	6	4
May 22nd	Black Hawk	Wendy Howard, DVM	12	3	9
June 14th	Spearfish	Metzger Holcomb Animal Clinic	11	7	4
June 18th	Rapid City	Animal Clinic of Rapid City	15	8	7
July 20th	Spearfish	Spearfish Animal Hospital	13	10	3
September 25th	Black Hawk	Wendy Howard, DVM	17	7	10
October 5th	Belle Fourche	Belle Fourche Veterinary Clinic	15	8	7
October 12th	Spearfish	Spearfish Animal Hospital	16	9	7
October 15th	Rapid City	Animal Clinic of Rapid City	12	8	4
October 30th	Keystone	Lloyd Emond, DVM	14	7	7
November 5th	Rapid City	Animal Clinic of Rapid City	19	7	12
December 7th	Spearfish	Spearfish Animal Hospital	8	5	3
December 7th	Spearfish	Metzger Holcomb Animal Clinic	9	3	6
December 11th	Black Hawk	Wendy Howard, DVM	24	15	9
December 18th	Keystone	Lloyd Emond, DVM	10	8	2

Clinic Total	.	.	447	215	232
Vouchers	.	.	231	124	109
Grand Total	.	.	678	339	341

TOTALS FOR 2009

Date	City	Participating Vet	Total	Females	Males
January 13th	Spearfish	Spearfish Animal Hospital	15	9	6
February 10th	Rapid City	West Winds Veterinary Services	26	13	13
February 10th	Belle Fourche	Belle Fourche Veterinary Clinic	13	7	6
March 9th	Spearfish	Metzger Holcomb Animal Clinic	15	6	9
March 4th	Rapid City	West Winds Veterinary Services	22	6	16
April 7th	Spearfish	Spearfish Animal Hospital	18	8	10
April 21st	Rapid City	Canyon Lake Veterinary Hospital	9	5	4
May 12th	Rapid City	West Winds Veterinary Services	6	2	4
May 19th	Spearfish	Metzger Holcomb Animal Clinic	11	5	6
July 21st	Spearfish	Spearfish Animal Hospital	12	8	4
September 1st	Belle Fourche	Belle Fourche Veterinary Clinic	13	8	5
September 14th	Rapid City	Animal Clinic of Rapid City	12	6	6
October 6th	Spearfish	Metzger Holcomb Animal Clinic	13	7	6
October 13th	Spearfish	Spearfish Animal Hospital	15	9	6
October 23rd	Rapid City	Animal Clinic of Rapid City	10	9	1
November 23rd	Rapid City	Animal Clinic of Rapid City	13	7	6
December 1st	Black Hawk	Wendy Howard	16	11	5
December 15th	Black Hawk	Wendy Howard	13	7	6

Clinic Total	.	.	252	137	121
Vouchers	.	.	173	103	70
Grand Total	.	.	425	236	189

2006-2008 data available on request

Our Fantastic Volunteers and Clients in Action!

Gerry and Chris - volunteers from the Big K Colony

ready for the vet
Volunteers and clients prepare for a clinic

Stacking them up
Lots of cats at a clinic means fewer cats in the shelter. We have fun, too!

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Grand Total

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425

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