Spay/Neuter Awareness Day
Spay Day USA - February 23, 2010
Spay Day USA takes place each year on the last Tuesday of February. Created by the Doris Day Animal League (DDAL) in 1995, Spay Day USA became a program of the HSUS when DDAL combined operations with The HSUS in 2006. Spay Day USA is America's first and ONLY national day of action to promote the spaying or neutering of pets. During Spay Day USA, veterinarians and their staff, animal welfare professionals, business owners, and concerned citizens join forces nationwide to spay or neuter as many animals as possible, and to promote spay/neuter as an essential component of good pet health care, in addition to being an effective and humane means of decreasing the euthanasia of homeless animals in shelters.
During Spay Day USA's first fourteen years, participants spayed or neutered more than 1,418,500 animals! When you consider how prolific animals are, and that the average cost for shelters to handle each homeless animal is $176, it is clear that Spay Day USA participants have, potentially, prevented millions of surplus births and saved millions of taxpayers' dollars.
