With animal shelters filling up, Lubbock Animal Services decided to do their part by spaying and neutering select animals that come to their facility.
Steven Greene, director of Lubbock Animal Services, said they have over 400 animals currently in their care, most of which are not spayed or neutered.
Greene said because of the overpopulation problem in Lubbock, LAS has decided to take steps to help prevent the numbers continuing to rise.
“We have started recently spaying and neutering our animals in our facility,” Greene said.
Greene said they started performing the operations in order to help out local vets that are swamped from the high volume of animals needing the procedure.
“Under state law any animal that leaves an municipal shelter through adoption is supposed to be either spayed or neutered or leave with a voucher,” Greene said. “It’s overwhelmed the vets in our community, they have a long waiting list so every little bit we can do in house is just gonna help alleviate that back log.”
LAS on-site vet, Eila Machado, said starting off she is performing surgery twice a week, with the help of local vets who are volunteering their time.
“So far we’ve had really great outcomes a lot of our patients have actually literally left that day because they have been adopted,” Machado said.
Greene said as this program is getting off of it’s feet, they are asking the public for help.
“We can use plenty of towels and blankets, any heating pads or blankets, any kind of surgical equipment,” Greene said.
