We adopted a kitten over the summer from a local rescue. The foster mom of our kitty works at RI community spay neuter clinic and had mentioned the option of taking our kitten their to be spayed. At the time we had another vet so we didn't think much of it (though being a big advocate of s/n and having helped in rescue myself over the years I was SO happy to hear this place was open in RI!!).
Since the summer we have decided to switch vets for reasons that have nothing to do with this post, so I'll skip that. In any case, we decided to take our kitten here for her spay and it went great. They request that you come in and fill in paperwork first - this allows you to get all of that out of the way and THEN you bring in your pet. GREAT process in my opinion, as I always worry about other people's pets and what illness they may be able to transfer to my pets while in a veterinary environment. So...when I walked in with our kitten, they immediately were there to take the carrier out of our hands and bring her in to another room to be prepped for surgery, etc.
She was given pain medication after the surgery via injection, seemed to be cared for very well and I though the extra note on her paper work telling us how ""cute"" she was (we think so, too!) was a nice touch. For a place that's common goal is to make spay/neuter more affordable and encourage the community to spay and neuter their pets - I was sort of pleasantly surprised by the level of personalized care. They are really going to make a difference in reducing the pet overpopulation problem in RI, which in turn will help eliminate the senseless deaths of so many homeless animals.
My kitten's incision was very small, she was in good spirits when I took her home and she seems to be recovering very, very well.
I am very pleased with the results. Thanks so much for what you are doing. RI REALLY needed something like this. I know that my dog's vet charged us $500 to NEUTER him and our other cats were around $300. For whatever reason, some pet owners just can not afford this, not to mention people that may want to fix the ferals in their neighborhood, or cat that was dumped by the neighbors and didn't have an affordable option to do so. Now they do!
Kudos to you guys for a job well done!
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