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Causes: Animal Protection & Welfare, Animals
Mission: Provide material support to jefferson parish animal shelter in care of homeless animals; financial support to animal trappers in removing strays from feral environment; financial support to spaying and neutering of feral and privately owned cats and dogs in jefferson parish.
Programs: Spay-neuter - the jefferson spca low-cost; no cost spay/neuter program provided spay/neuter surgeries for animals in jefferson parish in 2017. Near 70% of the surgeries were free spay/neuter surgery for neighborhood cats in 2017.
general operations: in the jefferson spca provided life-saving heartworm treatment to adopted dogs from the jefferson parish animal shelter, provided a volunteer liaison coordinating volunteers for shelter pet socialization and off-site pet adoption events, responded to over 4000 calls for found pets for the rabies license hotline.
50,811 pets received rabies tags during 2017.