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 The Need - Pet overpopulation, caused by the uncontrolled, unplanned, breeding of fertile cats and dogs, is a serious problem in Baton Rouge – a serious problem that creates thousands of innocent animals born each year only to meet the fate of being destroyed. Our goal is to decrease uncontrolled/unplanned breeding, thus ending this cycle.
Over 9,000 unwanted pets will be destroyed by the East Baton Rouge Animal Control this year alone. The best solution to this sad reality is to stop the unwanted animals from being born. As part of that solution, Spay Baton Rouge provides spay and neuter assistance to qualified pet owners through association with Azalea Lakes Veterinary Clinic, the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine, and a number of local area vet clinics.
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Read more: About Us
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A Spay Day is a day where a licensed veterinarian, vet technicians and volunteers work together to spay or neuter pets that qualified for assistance through our program.
Spay Days occur in many locations. The main location is at our facility, The Joan Greco Memorial Spay Baton Rouge Facility. Mr. Joe Greco generously donates use of this building behind his business, Greco Pet Supply. The Azalea Lakes Veterinary Clinic has also been very supportive to our mission. They open up their clinic once a month, when it is normally closed, to spay or neuter pets for our program. We also participate in LSU Spay Days held monthly at the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine. |
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 Baton Rouge Parish euthanizes over 80% of the animals impounded yearly. If we continue to euthanize as a method to control our pet overpopulation problem, we will continually be playing catch up with animals that produce on average 10 offspring per year. Spay Baton Rouge is a non-profit organization established in 2004. We recognize that the pet overpopulation problem in our parish is a community problem. With more animals than homes, the only logical way to slow down the overpopulation problem is to stop the production of the problem at the source.
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Read more: Why Spay/Neuter?
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