About Our Program:

KittiCo operates a Spay-Neuter Program (Dallas/Fort Worth/Operation Zip Code) as part of our mission to reduce the number of stray cats in the metroplex and surrounding areas. This program is geared toward feral and stray cats. We also assist low-income/financial-assistance recipients (with verification) with spay/neuter surgeries for animals in their care. These two groups of animals have historically been without spay/neuter or regular medical care. KittiCo has chosen these groups as their niche/focus to provide services not only to a segment of the animal population where there was little assistance available before, but also to come alongside the for-profit veterinary community as a partner and not as a competitor. Questions? Please visit our FAQ page before contacting us with a question, as you may find the answer to it there.

Notices:

The Dallas Spay/Neuter Clinic will be Closed for the Holidays. The last open date this year is Monday December 17. The clinic will reopen on Thursday, January 10th, 2008.

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Please be advised that due to manufacturer discontinuing FELV only tests, we will now carry FELV/FIV combo tests. These tests cost us more, so we will have to charge $20 per test. This is effective immediately, and intake volunteers/staff have been notified to charge the new rate, even if not reflected on the paperwork yet.

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The Dallas spay/neuter clinic, is located at 2520 Electronic Ln #803, Dallas, TX 75220-1228. Look for the KittiCo sign in the window. Please Note: All drop-off and pick up is now at the clinic only!

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Feline Leukemia testing may be performed on a cat in a trap if it looks extremely sick, thin, etc. Cats testing positive for Feline Leukemia will be humanely euthanized. This will prevent the spread of this horrible disease and stop the cat's suffering.

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Dallas KittiCo Spay/Neuter Clinic:

Program Information:

KittiCo Cat Rescue operates the Dallas Spay/Neuter Clinic from 2520 Electronic Ln #803, Dallas, TX 75220-1228. Look for the KittiCo sign in the window. Please Note: All drop-off and pick up is now at the clinic only!

Days of Operation:

Drop-Off: Monday and Thursday at 7:00-9:00 am, at our new clinic location.

Pick-up: ALL cats and kittens (tame or feral/carriers or traps) will be returned the same day you dropped them off, between 7:30-8:30 pm , at our new clinic location.

Cats will be moved to another location if not picked up between 7:30-8:30 pm. You will be required to pay boarding cost and pick your cat up from the boarding location.

We do know there are extenuating circumstances, so for those times when there is a problem picking up your cat(s) on time please call the clinic pager number at 214-246-0235 between the hours of 5:00-6:30 pm. Please only call for emergency related reasons, as stated on the aftercare instructions sheet, or if you are unable to pick up your cat(s) on time. Please do not call the pager for this until 5:00-6:30 pm, otherwise you will be interrupting surgery.

Note: Please check this site ahead of time to confirm clinic dates. Please visit our FAQ page before contacting us with a question, as you may find the answer to it there.

Registration: Appointments are not required. On arrival you will be asked to register your animals. A copy of all the clinic paperwork is available by clicking here, including the spay/neuter surgery aftercare instructions sheet. We encourage people to complete as much of the paperwork as they can before arriving at the clinic (except for the colored cards), but if you cannot do so, we have copies available for you when you drop off your cat. Please allow yourself plenty of time to fill out the required paperwork, as we will not accept animals for the clinic without it.

Guidelines: All cats/kittens MUST be enclosed in either a standard trap or standard carrier (standard meaning commercially manufactured for the purpose of transporting felines, with a secured door) that is labeled with your name and telephone number. We can not accept animals in cardboard boxes, cardboard carriers, milk crates, picnic baskets, pillowcases, other non-standard or homemade devices, oversized carriers and oversized traps. Be sure to put a towel or several sheets of newspaper in carrier in case the cat urinates.

Anyone wanting to bring in more than four (4) cats must get approval from our feral cat coordinator, Celia Orr. She can be reached at 214-826-6903 ext. 2 A minimum of 12 hours notice is required.

Please do not put multiple cats in one carrier if possible. Checking your carrier to ensure it is in good repair will help to ensure your cat is unable to escape. Check to ensure screws, bolts, or other fasteners are secure.

Services: Animals will be spayed or neutered. Along with a spay or neuter, each cat will receive a rabies vaccination (in accordance with age and health) and feral cats will have the ear tip notched. The ear notch is a universal sign that a cat has been fixed. Donations are requested from those people bringing in cats in carriers unless financial hardship exists.

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New Policy for cats in Fort Worth-Arlington area

Fort Worth "Mondays" are being expanded, with the hope that more people from Fort Worth will bring their cats to the KittiCo Cat Rescue Clinic.

Since 2004, we have sent a van and driver to Fort Worth to pick up cats once a month. This was at a single location, usually at Eastchase and I-30. We are no longer able to transport cats in large numbers from Fort Worth to Dallas. Thus, we will no longer offer the transportation part of our service on this day.

The KittiCo Cat Rescue Clinic is normally open every Monday and Thursday. Instead of one day a month ("Fort Worth Monday"), our Clinic sterilizes cats eight or nine days a month. Fort Worth-Arlington area residents and volunteers are now invited to drive to Dallas and "carpool" if possible. This is the same invitation that people all over North Central Texas and the Dallas Fort Worth Metropolitan area have had, and accepted, for years.

Those who have a van or SUV can help others. If you do not have a car, or have relied upon Fort Worth or Arlington residents to take your cats to Eastchase and I-30, please contact those volunteers, or ask other friends, if they can bring you and your cats to the KittiCo Cat Rescue Clinic, at 2520 Electronic Lane, Suite 803 (near the intersection of I-35 and Walnut Hill Lane).

When area residents bring free-roaming cats to the Clinic for eight or nine days a month - instead of only one day - more will be treated for Fort Worth elderly, disabled and low-income residents.

Guidelines

We need an intake sheet filled in and signed for each owner whose cats are brought. We need a separate vet card filled in for each cat that is brought. We need the zip code where the cat was trapped, not just where the trapper lives, and this should be written on both the intake sheet and the vet card. We supply intake sheets and vet cards at the Clinic, and they can also be downloaded from our website.

All cats sterilized at the Clinic are eartipped. This is approved by the American Veterinary Medical Association as a universally recognized signal that a cat has been fixed.

The only exception to this will be cats for whom a $55 donation is made to cover the subsidized cost of their surgery. When residents are able to make a donation in this amount, that demonstrates that they are able financially to care for the cat and keep it indoors.

Area shelters are filled with escaped and abandoned cats, and euthanize thousands each year. Eartipped cats, as recognizably sterilized cats, have an enhanced likelihood of survival since they can be adopted out as fixed cats and, if feral, can be safely released.

Anyone who transports 5 or more cats to the Clinic on a single day must notify Celia Orr (214-826-6903, ext 1 or 469-865-4438) twelve hours in advance and get permission. That person may be asked to bring the cats another day if the day they are coming is an especially high volume day.

We ask that people who can afford to make a donation please make a donation. No suppliers of veterinary medicines or instruments, and no veterinarians or veterinary technicians, work for free. Every one of them must be paid. The landlord, water and electric utilities, and all suppliers must be paid. We do fundraising and ask for grants to support our work, but no foundation or members of the public cover all our costs. We work hard to cover costs, asking for a donation of $55 per cat, which is a subsidized amount that and is less than our actual cost.

Area rescue groups may contact Celia Orr to request our guidelines for working with them. We offer special discounted rates to these groups for each cat. Our mission of helping elderly, disabled, and low-income residents means that we help people, not groups. It is important to us to meet with our individual clients whenever possible because we ask even the indigent if they can contribute toward a cat's cost of surgery, and accept what they offer with gratitude. We have limited funds, which we must use for specific, funded programs; for training individuals and neighborhoods; purchasing humane traps; buying veterinary medicines, surgical instruments, rabies and other vaccines, and antibiotics; paying rent, electricity, and water bills; and being financially responsible for many other obligations.

Rescue groups that have people, volunteers, the ability to raise their own funds, and leadership have far more resources than elderly, disabled and low-income residents. We offer these groups a discounted rate because of economies of scale and hope you will be able to work with us in this way. If your group has not yet contacted us to work out an agreement, please visit with them about this, and ask if they'd like to email our Executive Director at exec_dir@kittico.org or call 214-826-6903, extension 4.

We are able to keep our doors open only by using a business model. We do not incur debt. Please be responsible if you are using our services and contribute what you can.

Before you come, check our website at www.kittico.org or call 214-826-6903, extension 1 to make sure the Clinic is open the day you want to come since the Clinic (on rare occasions) may be closed for bad weather or emergencies.

Directions

1. Take I-30 or I-20 to Dallas and head North on Interstate 35 to Denton.
2. About 10 miles north of Downtown Dallas, while on I-35, take the right exit onto Walnut Hill Lane, turning right and heading East.
3. At the first light after exiting the freeway, turn right onto Composite.
4. Take the next left onto Electronic Lane.
5. Shortly afterwards, turn right into little strip mall center. Look for the "Alvin Ord Sandwiches" sign on the end of a building and turn right immediately after that. The Clinic is in Suite 803, the first door on the right after you turn into the parking lot, next to a large tree on the right.

We hope to see you soon! Several of you have already driven over to the Clinic and we hope that more of you will make a trip here with your cats!

With Best Wishes from KittiCo Cat Rescue

Updated 02.20.2008

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Kittico's Community Cares Operation Zip Code:

Program Information:

If you have a cat, or see any stray cats/kittens in your neighborhood, we want to help prevent a population explosion (in seven years, one cat and her young can produce 420,000 kittens!) by offering free spay/neuter to cat owners/caregivers in the following zip codes: 75211, 75212, 75216, 75217, 75224, 75227, 75228, 75232, 75233, 75236, 75237, 75241, 75253. 75023. Please bring the cats in cats in traps/carriers to 2520 Electronic Ln #803, Dallas, TX 75220-1228 on Monday and Thursday between 7:00-9:00 am, and mention your zip code for verification. You do not have to live in these zipcodes to utilize our services. This is just an extra program for these zipcodes.

Days of Operation:

Drop-Off: Monday and Thursday at 7:00-9:00 am, at our new clinic location.

Pick-up: ALL cats and kittens (tame or feral/carriers or traps) will be returned the same day you dropped them off, between 7:30 to 8:30 pm, at our new clinic location.

Note: Please check this site ahead of time to confirm clinic dates. Questions? Please visit our FAQ page before contacting us with a question, as you may find the answer to it there. If you cannot find the answer to your question, call 214-826-6903 ext. 3, or email spayneuter@kittico.org.

Registration: Appointments are not required. On arrival you will be asked to register your animals. A copy of all the clinic paperwork is available by clicking here, including the spay/neuter surgery aftercare instructions sheet. We encourage people to complete as much of the paperwork as they can before arriving at the clinic (except for the colored cards), but if you cannot do so, we have copies available for you when you drop off your cat. Please allow yourself plenty of time to fill out the required paperwork, as we will not accept animals for the clinic without it.

Guidelines: All cats/kittens MUST be enclosed in either a standard trap or standard carrier (standard meaning commercially manufactured for the purpose of transporting felines, with a secured door) that is labeled with your name and telephone number. We can not accept animals in cardboard boxes, cardboard carriers, milk crates, picnic baskets, pillowcases, other non-standard or homemade devices, oversized carriers and oversized traps. If you do not have an approved carrier, please contact us so we can loan one to you, or make accommodations for your cat.

Services: Animals will be transported to a clinic for spaying or neutering. Along with a spay or neuter, each cat will receive a rabies vaccination (in accordance with age and health) and feral cats will have the ear tip notched. The ear notch is a universal sign that a cat has been fixed.

KittiCo's Spay-Neuter Program is funded 100% by donations. If you would like to partner with us in this endeavor go here.

Donations:

We greatly appreciate any donations. It costs KittiCo $55 per cat for this care and we have limited funds. Any amount helps us to help more cats and cut down on the number of feral and unwanted cats and kitten births. Please give donations (check/cash/credit card) to our volunteers at the drop off site, or mail a check or money order to:

KittiCo Cat Rescue PO Box 600447 Dallas, Texas 75360-0447 Please put Driver's License number and date of birth on checks. In memo section write: "Donation/TNR". All donations are tax deductible. KittiCo thanks you for your assistance.