Today is World Spay Day, and animal advocates across the country are spreading the word about the urgent need to humanely reduce pet overpopulation. Over three million healthy cats and dogs are euthanized in U.S. shelters each year – 90% of which are considered adoptable. World Spay Day is an annual campaign to highlight spay/neuter as a mechanism for saving the lives of companion animals, in addition to stray cats and dogs who might otherwise be euthanized. 
To help raise awareness of its programs and the importance of spay/neuter, FixNation Co-Founder and Executive Director, Karn Myers, joined with other spay/neuter and advocacy groups Found Animals Foundation, ASPCA, SNP LA, Spay-4-LA, Pet Care Foundation, SCA and Lucy Pet Foundation, to meet with Los Angeles City Council Members in Downtown LA. The event included a presentation to the council members and a tour of Spay-4-LA’s mobile surgical rig.
In Los Angeles alone, one million cats currently live on the city’s streets, one of the nation’s highest populations of homeless felines. These animals are unsterilized and their numbers continue to grow year after year.
“The solution isn’t animal shelters, which are already at maximum capacity, and it isn’t needless euthanasia on a mass scale. There’s a much more humane and effective option: Trap-Neuter-Return,” said Karn Myers, co-founder of FixNation, a non-profit providing free spay/neuter services for feral cats, the only such program in the nation.
