Could you maybe tell us a little bit more about what you guys are doing today? Sure.
So at today's Spay neuter clinic, we have two doctors.
Um, and there are two techs back in surgery.
I'm volunteering back in surgery today, so I'll help to prep the cats.
Um,
so it's just another way that we're by having two doctors,
we're able to get through more cats and today we'll do, like I said, about 70 cats.
Um, high volume, high quality, low cost day neuter.
Is that, um, what, um, average, uh, for the cats that you guys do? Ok. Um,
70 is about generally about average. Um,
sometimes we only have 50 cats,
sometimes it'll be more like 80 but I'd say 70 is about the average for our clinic.
Can you maybe please close, um, um, who you are and what you're doing here today?
Sure. My name is Gabriel Griffin
and I am a foster home with the Pittsburgh Cat Action team,
uh, sometimes abbreviated as P cats.
We, uh, take in cats who can be rehomed
uh, to their forever homes and in the meantime, we socialize them in our own houses.
So, unlike having a shelter, um, like a traditional,
um, re
organization might have,
we take them all into our houses, uh, keep them for
anywhere between a couple of weeks and a couple of months,
depending on what they need and how old they are.
Give them all the veterinary care
and
then adopters will put in an application,
um, to adopt a cat from us, they come out and meet the cat
and if they are a good fit, the cat goes home with them and they've had their shots,
they've been tested for any diseases,
they've been spayed or neutered and they're all ready to go.
Is that? Oh,
I'm sorry. Oh, go ahead.
Is that why you're here today to get some of your cats spayed or neutered?
Uh, one of our foster kitties is ill.
So he's here getting a little bit of treatment, um,
so that we can get taken back later.
He's very young. So he's not going to be ready for a couple of months to go to a new home.
Um, so
what does being a, uh cat caretaker entail?
Well, uh, initially when you see that there's a,
a lot of cats in an area you trap neuter and return, you
fix all the cats, get them the medical care that they need.
If any are friendly, you try to foster them and find them homes.
Um, but then on a daily basis you feed them, water them,
um,
make sure monitor their health, make sure everything's ok and then, um,
provide shelter so they have a place warm in the
winter time and, you know, all year long out of the elements.
What else do I do? I do now?
Um,
well, the trap neuter and return is the biggest thing to get them fixed.
So they don't continue to multiply.
And, um,
I volunteer at different places.
I,
my husband and I run in the food bank in
Leechburg and we volunteer at our local fire department too.