Seattle Animal Shelter Virtual Tour

Municipal Spay & Neuter Clinic - Holding/Recovery

Our skilled and professional staff monitors our patients closely. In addition to our watchful staff we have several instruments to monitor our patients heart rate, breathing rate, and blood oxygen saturation.

The Early Neutering Program (ENP) surgically sterilizes puppies and kittens prior to the traditional age of six months. After 20 years of study, it has been shown that there are no significant differences in a dog or cat sterilized at the age of 7 weeks or 7 months. This program allows the shelter to neuter or spay adopted animals before they leave the shelter and further reduce the overpopulation problem.

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