The Ryan Newman Foundation

Ryan and Krissie Newman, spokespeople for the Humane Alliance’s National Spay/Neuter Response Team, would like to call attention to an important free webinar offered by PetSmart Charities to educate communities, animal shelters and pet rescue organizations about how to start their own successful low-cost, high-volume, high-quality spay/neuter clinic. 

PETSMART CHARITIES UPCOMING WEBINAR – STARTING A SUCCESSFUL SPAY/NEUTER CLINIC 
Have you dreamed of starting a high volume s/n clinic but just don’t know how to get it started or where to find the funds? Or do you have a program already but are struggling to do a few thousand a year and break even? Do you feel like you are never going to get ahead of the unwanted litters being born and need to greatly increase your numbers without knocking yourself out? Then this webinar is for you!  

Join Quita Mazzina of Humane Alliance and Aimee St. Arnaud of PetSmart Charities as they walk you through the steps to opening a successful spay/neuter clinic including floor plans, budgeting, hiring and training staff, and start up funds to purchase equipment available through PetSmart Charities. Humane Alliance has helped open 47 clinics across the county using their model. PetSmart Charities has helped fund over 120 clinics in the last 3 years. You can be next! 

DATES:
- Tuesday, February 10:  10-11 a.m. pacific, 11-12 p.m. mountain, 12-1 p.m. central, 1-2 p.m. eastern
- Wednesday, February 11:  8-9 a.m. pacific, 9-10 a.m. mountain, 10-11 a.m. central, 11-12 p.m. eastern
- Thursday, February 10:  12-1 p.m. pacific, 1-2 p.m. mountain, 2-3 p.m. central, 3-4 p.m. eastern 

These sessions will fill up quickly, so make sure to register at http://petsmartcharities.webex.com.  

ABOUT THE RYAN NEWMAN FOUNDATION SNIP REGIONAL SPAY/NEUTER CLINIC 
The Ryan Newman Foundation SNIP Regional Spay/Neuter Clinic opened in December 2008 in Hickory, North Carolina.  The foundation donated $400,000 to a local rescue group's capital campaign to build the low-cost, high-volume, high-quality regional spay/neuter clinic in the multipurpose facility, which contains the SNIP (Spay Neuter Initiative Partnership) Clinic, a no-kill animal shelter and education center. 

The clinic serves individuals and animal rescue groups in eight counties in the heart of NASCAR country—from the mountains to the piedmont of NC.  In their first 11 months of operation, the SNIP Clinic spayed/neutered 6,249 dogs, cats, puppies and kittens, preventing the births of 1,874,700 unwanted pets.  

ABOUT THE HUMANE ALLIANCE’S NATIONAL SPAY/NEUTER RESPONSE TEAM 
Ryan and Krissie Newman are spokespeople for the Humane Alliance’s National Spay Neuter Response Team (NSNRT).   The NSNRT operates much like a NASCAR pit crew, sending groups of trained vets and veterinary technicians to help nonprofit organizations learn how to open spay/neuter clinics using the Humane Alliance model.   

Through the NSNRT initiative, which began in 2005, the Humane Alliance’s team of facilitators has trained and mentored over 47 organizations across the nation to successfully implement its high volume, high quality spay/neuter model.  Those clinics will perform an estimated 300,000 spay/neuter surgeries per year. Additionally more than 40 nonprofit organizations around the country have applied to open low-cost, high-volume, high-quality spay/neuter clinics within the coming year.  These nonprofit spay/neuter clinics will partner with hundreds of local animal shelters and rescue groups in their regions across the nation.  

WHY IS SPAY/NEUTER SO IMPORTANT TO THE RYAN NEWMAN FOUNDATION? 
Spaying and neutering is the only way to permanently curb the proliferation of millions of unwanted and abandoned animals each year in the United States.  Sadly, U. S. shelters have to euthanize an estimated 3-4 million cats and dogs each year simply because there are not enough homes for all the abandoned dogs, cats, puppies and kittens. 

Spay/neuter humanely reduces the number of healthy, homeless pets who are euthanized. For example, the Humane Alliance of Western North Carolina non-profit high volume, high quality, affordable spay/neuter clinic located in Asheville. Since its inception 12 years ago, the Humane Alliance clinic has sterilized 180,000 companion animals and reduced the euthanasia rate in the Asheville community by an astounding 72 percent. 

SPAY/NEUTER SAVES LIVES!