My Nonprofit Reviews

I called the Sacramento SPCA to get information about their trap-and-release spay/neuter program. In the conversation with the person who answered the phone, she said that people do line up early for the clinic. (There is no need to have an appointment.) They only take five cats on any given day. I decided to go ahead and try to trap one of our feral cats. Luckily, we were able to catch one. I got up the next morning at 4:15 to bring the cat to the SSPCA. I got there at 5:30 in the morning. There were already five cats in line. The owners were all in their cars. I was really surprised that I was an hour and a half early and there were already five cats. I asked the other people when they had arrived? THREE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING. A worker for the SSPCA came out to check the other cats in, and I told the woman that nobody really gave me the correct information regarding when I should actually get the cat to the SPCA to be neutered. She said that she tells people. However, whoever I talked to DID NOT tell me.
The reason this information would have been helpful is because I would NEVER have trapped the cat in the first place. Now I have a poor cat in a trap. My options are to come back to the SPCA at 3:00 in the morning and try again, keeping the poor cat another 24 hours in a trap; letting the cat go, knowing that we will never be able to trap it again; or paying my regular vet over $300 to spay/neuter it. (I did have the cat neutered by my vet. I was lucky that they let me bring it in.)
I called and spoke with someone at the SSPCA spay/neuter clinic and I tried to explain WHY the SSPCA should be more honest with people when they call to get information. Why not post it? She seemed to think that I was just upset about not being able to get the cat taken care of. I tried to explain to her that I would have made a different decision if I had been given more accurate information.
So, if you are reading this, and you want to get your feral cat spayed/neutered by the SSPCA, know that you should get there at 3:00 in the morning and it is still not a sure thing. Also, you need to know that the SSPCA is NOT in a great area to be sitting in your car in the middle of the night.