{"id":405088,"date":"2024-02-13T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=405088"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Spay-neuter-your-pets-at-ongoing-SHS-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Spay-neuter-your-pets-at-ongoing-SHS-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"Spay\/neuter your pets at ongoing SHS clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Saipan Humane Society\u2019s spay\/neuter clinic at the Koblerville Community Center (former Koblerville COVID-19 Testing Center), is ongoing until Feb. 15.<\/p>\n

As of last Friday, Feb. 9, the clinic has already done 111 spay\/neuter surgeries, three amputations, and had 57 sick\/wellness visits. The clinic was set up last Monday, Feb. 5, in collaboration with visiting veterinarians, SHS staff\/volunteers, and the Saipan Dog Control Program staff.<\/p>\n

The prices for spay\/neuter services are $50 for male cats (neuter), and $75 for female cats (spay), or male\/female dogs. Price varies for specialty surgeries (amputation, eye removal, etc.).<\/p>\n

Online registration for the spay\/neuter clinic is ongoing at saipanhumanesociety.org\/. From the home page, click the button that says \u201cRequest an appointment\u201d and follow the instructions. Drop off your pets between 7:30am and 8am and the last pick-up time is at 4pm. You can also email clinic@saipanhumanesociety.org\/.<\/p>\n

One visiting veterinarian, Dr. Jessica Nelson, told Saipan Tribune last Friday that the clinic has been \u201cwonderful.\u201d She arrived on Saipan for the first time the Sunday before the clinic and said that everybody has been welcoming and the clinic has been \u201cwonderfully run\u201d by SHS and DCP.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re just happy to be one of the little cogs in the machine, but we\u2019re not the main part\u2014everybody else is doing the work,\u201d said Nelson.<\/p>\n

On top of the many spay\/neuter surgeries, Nelson said the clinic crew also takes care of any emergencies that come in, along with providing rabies vaccines. She is also helping and providing SHS with more knowledge \u201cso they can continue providing the wonderful care they do.\u201d This week, they will also provide health certificates to help facilitate pets that need to get off island and just \u201cdoing whatever we can,\u201d said Nelson.<\/p>\n

Nelson is originally from Portland, Oregon, and has previously helped with one of Guam\u2019s spay\/neuter clinics. After a year of planning to assist SHS, she finally made it out to Saipan, along with veterinary technician Lauren Ruiz.<\/p>\n

With the community coming out and getting their pets serviced, Nelson said she\u2019s impressed but not surprised that people here love their pets. \u201cEverybody just wants what\u2019s best for their pet. \u2026I\u2019m just impressed with how much Saipan cares about their pets\u2014not that I was expecting anything differently, but it\u2019s just kind of reinforcing the belief that, yeah, it doesn\u2019t matter where you are, everybody loves their pets\u2014or even the random dog or cat on the side of the road.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for maybe hosting another spay\/neuter clinic on Rota and Tinian, SHS president Lauren Cabrera said they would need more funding as it\u2019s expensive to fly down there with all their equipment.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Front row, left to right, Saipan Humane Society executive director Lauren Cabrera, Dr. Jessica Nelson, licensed veterinary technician Lauren Ruiz, SHS\u2019 Ruby Ma; back row from left to right, Dorsha Moreno, Kim Vasick, Shareen Mongkeya, SHS\u2019 Jehnifer Villagomez, and SHS\u2019 Lupe Attao.<\/p>\n

-LEIGH GASES
<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Saipan Humane Society\u2019s spay\/neuter clinic at the Koblerville Community Center (former Koblerville COVID-19 Testing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}