PETA Global 2018 Issue 2

PETA’s fleet of mobile low- to no-cost Spay/ Neuter Immediately, Please! (SNIP) clinics has sterilized more than 150,000 animals in low-income areas near PETA’s headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, preventing the births of hundreds of thousands of unwanted animals. A SNIP Here, a SNIP There

PETA fieldworkers travel to some of the most impoverished areas of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina to help animals like Itchy, who was neutered, treated for heartworms, and adopted by PETA member Alysoun Mahoney.

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PETA offers free transportation to and from appointments for guardians who don’t have a vehicle or who – like Oreo’s “mom” – are elderly, disabled, or otherwise unable to drive. In some rural areas that PETA serves, the mobile clinics offer the residents’ only access to veterinary care.

Itchy ‘after’ shot: © Charles Long/CharlesLongPhotography.com • Dr. Drew: © Starmaxinc.com • Photo frame: © iStock.com/blackred • Globe: © iStock.com/ChakisAtelier

PETA is tackling companion-animal overpopulation at its very roots – by supporting spay/neuter programs that prevent thousands of animals from being born into poverty, neglect, and homelessness, in the US and around the world. World in Around the

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Special events help generate interest, such as PETA’s 24-hour Spay-a-Thon, a Father’s Day Spay ghetti Special that gave SNIP clients free pasta and Newman’s Own pasta sauce, and a fall

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festival, complete with a Great Pup kin Patch and free candy for the kids. (You can sponsor an event like this by visiting PETA.org/SpayDay .) And every child who comes to the clinic gets a free animal-friendly book to take home!

Sex addiction specialist Dr. Drew Pinsky knows that too much sex can be a bad thing – especially when it involves unsterilized dogs and cats. So the former Loveline host teamed up with PETA to narrate radio and TV spots that remind Los Angeles residents that city law requires them to “fix” their dogs and cats who are 4 months of age or older. “The best advice I can give everyone is to get their animals spayed and neutered,” he says. “[I]t’s the law!” Dr. Drew Wants Less Sex in Los Angeles ( for Dogs and Cats, That Is )

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Happy “customer” of PETA-supported spay/neuter efforts in Mexico

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FIXING THE PROBLEM