Animal Charities of Northern New York
PO Box 590, Dexter, NY 13634
315-639-2486   

                      A non-profit, tax deductible, all volunteer organization, dedicated to helping animals                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

About Us....                              
Animal Charities of Northern New York is an all-volunteer, non-profit, tax deductible organization founded in 1993 offering financial assistance for spaying and neutering animals.  We do not take in animals.

Our Mission.....
To reduce the ever-growing population of unwanted puppies and kittens born each year in Northern New York. But, we do "NOT" operate a shelter or take in stray animals.    

Our Goals.....
To increase the number of animals being spayed and neutered to help reduce the pet overpopulation problem.
To one day have a low-cost spay neuter clinic in operation in Jefferson County. 

How Can We Accomplish This?
Through fund raising efforts, grants and donations we have established a program that offers financial assistance for the spaying and neutering of animals for qualified individuals when funding is available. Since we are all volunteers, we do not have an office but work out of our homes.  You may reach us by phone, calling 639-2486 and leaving a message.  Since we were first established we have been able to spay and neuter over 5000 dogs and cats.  We're proud of that number but could easily double that if we had the funds.

Why Are We Always Out of Funding?
Good question.....we can't even begin to answer all the needs of our community.  But, we keep being asked to do more and more.  Every day our phone rings off the hook with people asking for help with strays, wanting assistance to spay or neuter their pets or looking to us to solve their pet problem.  We can't do it all.  We're volunteers, we don't get paid, we don't have a shelter, we work from home.  Yes, we do fundraising but there is only so much money to raise. The rest comes from the heart-donations.  That's up to you and the community.  The more donations we receive, the more animals we can help.  With the state of the economy right now times are tough and there aren't alot of "givers" out there. We do what we can with what we have.

PROJECT BARN KITTY
This is something we felt was absolutely necessary in Northern New York-addressing the problem of feral, stray and abandoned cats around Jefferson County.  We are trying to focus more and more on this project because the cat situation is way out of hand.  There is little being done to help these poor cats who have been abandoned and dumped. 

Since Ft Drum has not renewed their contract for animal pick up with the Jefferson County SPCA, you will now be seeing even more problems than ever before.  These poor animals have done nothing but belong to the wrong person and then get dumped off somewhere, abandoned and alone. Something has to be done to help them. Since we don't have a shelter, the only option is to spay as many as possible to make their life easier and stop the reproduction process.  

Hiring Spay Neuter Now (a mobile clinic) and working with volunteers, more than a hundred cats were trapped, altered and released throughout the county when we first started this program in 2004.   Since then, hundreds of cats have been altered thanks to the help of our dedicated volunteers. Many of these were kittens.  These kittens were altered thanks to the "early-age" spay program, fostered by a volunteer and put up for adoption, thus preventing thousands more unwanted cats in Jefferson County.  There are lots of barns, abandoned buildings and even places in the city of Watertown where cats are congregating and multiplying.  Trap, neuter, release is really the only way to humanely solve the problem.   People think dropping a cat off at a farm is a good way to get rid of it.  Well, that's the wrong thinking.  More often that cat is too traumatized to survive or other cats drive it away.  But to often these farms are a dumping ground for cats and before you know it there are kittens having kittens......   Help us by sending a donation and marking it for the  "Barn Kitty Project".    

 

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 The first spay clinic in Jefferson County, May 2004 - 18 cats were altered in one day! This was just the beginning...

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

Do you need help having your pet spayed or neutered?  If you can't afford the cost yourself and would like financial assistance to alter your pet then call us now at 639-2486for more information (if funds are available)                                                

EVENTS & FUND RAISING
 none at this time.

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