Spay-Neuter Assistance Program SNAP

10/23/2026

Since last November, Mendocino County has held $408,000 in funding for pet spay and neuter services, yet it has managed to spend only $41,000.

The bottleneck is a critical shortage of shelter veterinarians. Although 36 licensed vets reside in the county, none work directly for the county shelter as private practices offer significantly higher pay.

To help deploy the remaining money, Mendocino County animal shelter director Amy Campbell expressed openness to sharing the funding with the Coast Humane Society, which recently lost its own vet.

Link to the story in the comments.

10/11/2026

❤️‍🩹 A quick note from our team: Our phones and email are temporarily down while one of our volunteers heals from an injury. You can still email us or leave a voicemail, and we'll get back to you as soon as we can, though it may take a few weeks. We’ll let you know when we are fully operational again! Thank you so much for your patience and understanding. 🐾

10/05/2026

❤️ We’d like to give a huge shoutout to our friends at Northern Aggregates Inc for their generous donation! Your support truly means the world to us, and to the animals of Inland Mendocino County. Thank you so much for standing with us and supporting our critical work to help fix the pet overpopulation crisis.

🐶🐱 To our followers: this donation from Northern Aggregates will help a lot, but we still need your support in order to keep the phones on. We want to continue serving our community, but our finances are tighter than they have ever been. We are operating week to week, not knowing when the money will run out.

You can donate by clicking the link below or by mailing checks to:

SNAP P.O. BOX 4 Talmage, CA 95481

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/mendosnap

To all those who have donated or shared our posts, thank you from the bottom of our hearts! We truly couldn’t do this without you.

09/23/2026

This trip was paid for by SNAP. Please donate so we can continue funding low cost spay and neuter for Mendocino County.

09/20/2026

🚨 URGENT: We need your help to keep saving lives 🐾

Right now, our spay/neuter assistance program fixes around 100 pets every single month here in Mendocino County. That takes about $10,000 a month to keep the phones ringing.

We're at a breaking point. Without emergency donations, we will have to shut down operations next month.

Here's what that means: 100 fewer pets fixed, every month, going forward. In a county already struggling with pet overpopulation, that's not just a budget problem. It's more litters, more strays, more animals in already overcrowded shelters, and more suffering on the streets that could have been prevented.

We don't want to stop this work. We need your help to keep going.

💛 Here's how you can help right now:

📱 Donate: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/mendosnap or send checks to SNAP P.O. BOX 4 Talmage, CA 95481

🏢 Business sponsorships: [email protected]

📢 Share this post, even sharing helps get the word out

Every dollar goes directly toward getting pets fixed and keeping Mendocino County's pet population healthy and under control. Thank you for standing with us.

08/23/2026

Fixed cute is the best cute 🥰 Thanks for sharing a pic of these adorable SNAP clients, Robert Christoph!

08/20/2026

🚨 We need your help — TODAY 🚨

Our spay/neuter assistance program is 100% volunteer-run, and right now we’re operating month to month. Funding is critically low. If it doesn’t turn around soon, we may have to shut off our phones, which means fewer cats and dogs get fixed, and more litters end up in our community.

We keep overhead as low as possible (our only real cost is printing our newsletter a few times a year), so every dollar you give goes straight to helping animals get spayed and neutered. 🐾

If you’re able to donate, even $5 or $10 makes a difference, or if you’re a local business interested in sponsoring us, please reach out. 💛

We can’t keep the phones on without you. Thank you for standing with us. 🐱🐶

To donate, please click the link or send donations to the address below:

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/mendosnap

Mendocino Spay-Neuter Assistance Program (SNAP)
P.O. Box 4
Talmage, CA 95481-0004

Go to paypal.me/mendosnap and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

08/08/2026

🐾 Happy International Cat Day! 🐾

Today we’re celebrating every whiskered, purring member of the family and reminding cat lovers why spaying and neutering matters so much.

One unaltered female cat and her offspring can lead to hundreds of kittens in just a few years. Spaying and neutering isn’t only about population control. It also helps prevent certain cancers and infections, reduces roaming and fighting, and means a calmer, happier life for your cat.

This International Cat Day, celebrate the cats you love by making sure they’re spayed or neutered. 🐈❤️ need help? Reach out to us today!

Pictured below: some of the extremely cute residents cooling down at Ukiah’s own CPR 2nd Chance Cat Sanctuary. These cutie pies and more are available for adoption, foster, or cuddling if you want to stop by and volunteer! (and they are all spayed and neutered 😊)