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02/22/2026

KITTEN SEASON is upon us. The SPAY/NEUTER clinics at Clinton County Animal Control are filling up fast. There are 4 clinics a month scheduled in February, March and April and they are booking now into late April and May. The $75.00 TOMCAT NEUTER is being extended into MAY (a neuter/rabies vaccination and county tag). Getting male kittens age 4 months of age and older, or adult TOMCATS neutered, whether your family pet, a stray cat, barn cat, or a feral cat, solves more than half the problem of litters and litters of over-populated kittens. Last year, Clinton County Animal Control spay/neuter program altered more than 300 felines, helping to control over-population of felines. Sign up for the clinic is in the Animal Control link in the CC government website.

02/17/2026

02/03/2026

Just another reminder, if you have a pet, cat or dog, 4 to 6 months of age or older that is intact, please get them spayed or neutered before they breed! The only way to control the pet over-population problem of stray animals that end up in animal shelters unclaimed and unwanted is to prevent them from multiplying. Neutering a male animal is less expensive than a female spay and less of a medical procedure, and actually prevents more than half the problem as a male can reproduce with multiple females for multiple litters. Contact Clinton County Animal Control and get your tomcat (tame or feral, we'll fix them!) neutered and rabies vaccinated during FEBRUARY AND MARCH for only $75.00. Register for a clinic online in the county website at this link. https://form.jotform.com/250694992443064

🩶💛💙Spay and Neuter Awareness Month is celebrated every February worldwide to encourage spaying and neutering of pets. It coincides with World Spay Day, observed on the last Tuesday of the month. This campaign encourages pet owners to take responsibility for their furry friends by having them fixed. This will help avoid unwanted litters, reduce overcrowding in shelters and will ultimately result in far less animals being euthanized simply because of unavailable shelter space.

Our organization was built on the mission of sterilization, and this is our month to shine and shout the message! We run several spay/neuter programs which provides communities with essential resources and funding for these services. Let’s break the cycle before it even begins.

Please consider making a donation to OpSPOT this month. Financial support is vital and deeply appreciated. https://opspot.org/donate/

01/20/2026

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01/16/2026

As an example of corporate influence you may not have known about - "Even before private equity began moving into the world of dogs and cats, corporations were active acquirers of veterinary businesses. And the biggest corporate buyer of them all is Mars, which has been scooping up vet clinics for 30 years." Yes, your biggest and maybe favorite candy maker has been involving itself in the veterinary clinic business and pet foods for decades. They make profits off all of the following - Petsmart and all Banfield Animal Hospitals. All Pedigree food products, all Royal Canin and Nutro products, Diamond pet foods, and in 2017, they took VCA Animal Hospitals to "private" and added 800 animal hospitals to their portfolio.
"Veterinary care is a cash business that produces a recurring revenue stream that is attractive to private equity firms and corporate investors, said Patrick Callaghan, an attorney with law firm Nixon Peabody, whose practice focuses on representing health care, dental, and veterinary clients on transactional and regulatory matters. Focusing on pet health has helped Mars, which in 1994 produced annual sales of $13 billion and was bleeding money, Fortune reported at the time. Since entering the vet space, revenue has soared 284%."

Corporate control in pet healthcare is why it makes it expensive for everybody else to stay competitive since even if they are a solo practice owned clinic, everything they use in the business has to be purchased from Mars veterinary related companies and other big corporate suppliers.

01/09/2026

Wow! Now that's fast teamwork!

01/08/2026

A note on pet ownership. Per the Illinois Animal Control Act, 510 ILCS 5/2.16, ownership is defined as: “Owner” means any person having a right of property in an animal, or who keeps or harbors an animal, or who has it in his care, or acts as its custodian, or who knowingly permits a dog to remain on any premises occupied by him or her. “Owner” does not include a feral cat caretaker participating in a trap, spay/neuter, vaccinate for rabies, and return program."
It goes without saying that most people who like animals, when presented with a stray cat or dog NOT THEIR PERSONAL FAMILY PET, but a repeat four-legged visitor who keeps coming back to your home/property because you are doing the Good Samaritan act of giving it food and water or accessible shelter out of genuine concern for the animal, constitutes you as the "Owner" of that animal.
In particular, with feral cats and stray abandoned domesticated cats, providing these felines with food and water implies your assuming "ownership" of that animal.
With the over-population of felines in many areas, in town and rural areas alike, the Trap and Release Program offered thru Clinton County Animal Control is one way to address getting these unclaimed felines spayed and neutered and rabies vaccinated and returned to the "owner" that has been providing them with food, water, and shelter, and also prevents further breeding of even more cats.

Neutering male felines reduces their territorial inclinations, and spaying female felines prevents litters of additional unclaimed kittens. (Stray or feral kittens four months of age or over are eligible for spay/neuter surgery if healthy.) In the case of some being domesticated abandoned cats that are adoptable, that is another option to pursue thru Animal Control.

Anyone wanting to address getting an unclaimed stray feline spayed or neutered that has made your backyard or property its place to hang out and call "home", contact CC Animal Control and ask about the Trap and Release Program and the spay/neuter clinics held every month. All animals are checked for micro-chipping to determine if there is a registered owner of record.

Last year, the county's public-service spay/neuter clinics resulted in over 250 plus felines being altered, preventing 250 plus litters of kittens adding to the feline over-population problem in Clinton County.

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01/05/2026

"Pet “overpopulation” encompasses two primary factors: (1) allowing cats and dogs to reproduce with little chance to find homes for the offspring and (2) pets being relinquished by owners who can no longer keep their animals, or who no longer want them.

Every year, millions of cats and dogs are euthanized in our nation’s animal shelters because there are more pets than there are responsible homes for them."(source, American Humane Society).

January and the start of a New Year. It is also the "start" of the next "kitten season" as this time of year is when non-neutered males and non-spayed female felines are prime for reproduction in the next couple of months. Cat over-population is the biggest reason local Humane Socieities and animal shelters usually have more cats than dogs they are trying to find homes for to avoid euthanasia as the last choice to have to make.

Feral cat colonies, barn cat colonies, and domesticated cats that are just randomly dumped anywhere convenient when owners no longer want responsibility for them contributes to the growth of kitten litters that eventually end up in shelters and with rescue socieities. They often have these mamas and kittens in their care for weeks before they can be put up for adoption. Litters with no mamas take additional resources, time and care. In these trying economic times, it becomes financially difficult to address kitten-litter rescues when these organizations operate on limited budgets and donations.

Now is the time to get your family feline spayed or neutered if they are not already altered. Your local veterinary clinic is always the best place to access for your pet's overall health. If your situation does not afford that access for you, CC Animal Control offers spay and neuter clinics several times every month to address this feline over-population problem in the area. If you have a cat colony problem that is out of control with just too many cats, Animal Control can work with you to get all your cats fixed and rabies vaccinated in one clinic.

Feral cats always present a health issue to the general cat populations, even domesticated cats who are outdoor cats. CC Animal Control offers a Trap and Release program to help trap, spay/neuter/ and rabies vaccinate feral cats if you want them returned to your property for rodent control purposes.

Call your veterinarian if you have an unaltered feline family pet over the age of 4 months and ask about getting them fixed.

If you do not have a vet, or have a cat colony problem, or a feral cat issue, or financial constraints, registering your for a spay/neuter clinic in January, February or March at CC Animal Control can be done through this link in the county website.
https://form.jotform.com/250694992443064

Getting more felines fixed, preventing future litters, and controlling feral cat colonies reduces the number of felines that end up having to be euthanized as the solution to this nation-wide problem, especially in these trying financial times when keeping, or adopting, a family pet becomes an affordability choice.

Please click the link to complete this form.

01/05/2026

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