Two new city-owned veterinary clinics at the moment are providing free spay/neuter surgical procedures for San Antonio residents’ canine and cats — a part of the town’s ongoing effort to scale back the variety of stray and roaming animals.
Appointments opened on-line on Could 1 for the brand new Westside clinic at Las Palmas Mall, with areas accessible Tuesday by way of Saturday.
A second clinic on the East Facet opened in July, with appointments additionally accessible on-line. Each are anticipated to carry out about 25 spay/neuter surgical procedures per day.
The spay/neuter providers will probably be accessible freed from cost for residents’ canine and cats, however appointments are required and precedence reserving will probably be given to residents in sure zip codes with excessive charges of service calls to the town’s Animal Care Providers Division.
Right here’s how the brand new group vet clinics will work.
The place to seek out free spay/neuter surgical procedures
The Westside clinic on the Las Palmas Mall is positioned at 803 Castroville Rd., Suite 120.
The Eastside clinic is positioned close to the Denver Heights Group Heart, at 1608 S. New Braunfels Ave.
Each clinics will probably be run by the town’s Animal Care Providers Division, utilizing contracted veterinarians. Appointments could be booked on-line.
The town additionally has two different long-running free spay/neuter clinics: in Brackenridge Park close to the San Antonio Zoo, run by the nonprofit Spay Neuter Community, and at Brooks Metropolis Base on the town’s Southeast Facet, run by the Spay-Neuter Help Program.
Appointments for these clinics could be booked from the hyperlinks above, however are sometimes aggressive. Areas sometimes replenish for the month as quickly as the following batch is opened up on-line, in accordance with the town.
Who qualifies?
Metropolis veterinary clinics are open to all San Antonio residents, however require an appointment and pet homeowners should have the ability to confirm that they dwell inside San Antonio metropolis limits.
Metropolis clinics serve cats and canine solely.
Appointments for the Eastside and Westside clinics will probably be given to residents of zip codes with the best charges of calls to the town’s Animal Care Providers Division.
Precedence zip codes embrace: 78201,78202.78203,78204,78205, 78207,78208,78210,78211,78213,78214,78218,78219,78220,78221, 78222,78223,78224,78225,78226,78227,78228,78229,78235,78237,78238,78242 and 78264.
Animal Care Providers spokeswoman Lisa Norwood cautioned that many individuals have San Antonio as their mailing handle as a result of it’s the USA Postal Service’s hub location, however don’t really dwell inside metropolis limits. Residents who dwell within the county or one other municipality like Balcones Heights or Fortress Hills is not going to qualify.
Different veterinary providers
Canine and cats that obtain spay/neuter providers from the brand new clinics may even be eligible for added primary veterinary care, reminiscent of microchips and core vaccinations.
Proper now, microchips and vaccines are solely accessible to pets already coming in for a spay/neuter appointment, as the town focuses on sterilization to chop down on the stray and roaming animal inhabitants. The town intends to make them accessible individually sooner or later.
