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We started informally in 2012, partnering with local vets and eventually the Animal Friends clinic in Pittsburgh to facilitate low-cost spay/neuters for cats of local community members. We had no space of our own, so we operated out of parking lots and occasionally borrowed space, meeting clients in the early morning to receive their cats, shuttle those cats to the clinic at our own expense, return to the clinic later to pick the cats up, and then meet with the cats’ caretakers to return the cats and provide post-op care instructions. When we saw how much need there really was for this work, we formalized operations as a 501(c)(3) organization in 2014, though we still continued to operate out of a series of temporary spaces. As the community became more aware of our work and could see how serious we were about it, donations began to increase, facilitating our ongoing growth to the point where we were finally able, in 2018, to purchase a building for our own use. We continue to expand our services to the community while also remodeling the building to make it more suitable for our purposes. We opened our own on-site surgical suite in August of 2019; we now offer surgeries both here and also still in cooperation with Animal Friends in Pittsburgh. Our goal is to continue expanding services until we are able to offer more weekly surgical slots than have ever been available for our community before. We also now offer low-cost wellness services so that everyone can afford to provide the basic care that every cat needs.
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