SNAP Expands into Liberty County, Texas
State Grant Funds Free Spaying-Neutering through Mobile Clinic Program

SNAP is pleased to announce that it will begin offering free spaying and neutering for companion animals of low-income families living in Liberty County, Texas, in September 2007. This expansion of our service area is being made possible by a $59,848 grant from the Animal Friendly License Plate Fund, administered by the Texas Department of State Health Services Zoonosis Division. The fund awards grants to help control animal overpopulation in Texas.

The SNAP mobile clinic will travel to different areas throughout Liberty County 31 times over the next 12 months. SNAP is working with Liberty, Dayton, and Cleveland Animal Control agencies to identify sites where the services are most needed.  The vast majority of the county’s population (71 percent) does not have access to animal control operations, and there are no private veterinary clinics in the county that provide free or reduced-cost spay-neuter services.
 
Due to animal overpopulation in Texas, over half a million animals are euthanized annually at a cost of over $20 million dollars. These figures do not include animals that are abandoned and die from starvation, disease, or trauma. Failure to sterilize animal companions is a major cause of animal overpopulation.

SNAP continues to explore opportunities with other counties in Texas to provide free spay-neuter services. You can find out if you qualify to have your animal companions spayed or neutered for free by checking our website at www.snapus.org or by calling 713-862-3863.