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Celebrity Bow Wow Bingo
Please join us this Saturday!
The Silverton Casino is hosting a grand bingo tournament to support the lifesaving, no-kill work of Nevada SPCA.
All animal lovers welcome! (Players must be 21 years of age to participate though.)
The Nevada SPCA Celebrity Bow Wow Bingo tournament begins at 1pm.
Great prizes, celebrity participation and performances. More details coming soon.
Please plan to join us!
Reduced adoption fees on cats 5 years and older.
The $20 adoption fee for cats 5 years and older includes spay/neuter, major vaccines, microchip ID, starter food, and more.
We reduced their adoption fee to encourage people to consider the many dozens of sweet, affectionate adult felines who await loving, forever homes.
The adoption fees for adult cats under 5 years of age is $40 (and includes all of the adoption benefits listed above).
The adoption fees for kittens is $70 for those 6 months and younger, and $50 for the "junior kittens" who are between 7 months and less than one year of age. (The same adoption benefits are included with kittens -- spay/neuter, major vaccines, microchip ID, starter food, more.)
Thank you for supporting Nevada SPCA's lifesaving work for cats, making 2011 our best-ever year for cat and kitten adoptions!
[Pictured here: Jazz Man, a soft-spoken and gentle Lynx Point Siamese, neutered, 14 years of age, great with other sweet cats.]
Adopting senior animals, who have a magic all their own, brings rich emotional rewards.
The wise, gentle love from senior animals is every bit as unconditional and powerful as the love from puppies and kittens.
Many adopters strongly believe that there is also deep gratitude, and an understanding that they are being saved.
Seniors tend to get overlooked by most visitors, some of who are only seeking baby animals. But we challenge them to be open to the magnificence of all animals, regardless of age or color or size.
Personality and lifestyle are the best indicators of a forever match.
Rio, featured here, is a radiant 9-year old Australian Cattle Dog mix glowing with hope. She has made remarkable progress believing in people again after surviving years of abuse.
December's best-ever adoptions!
Canned Cat Food & Paper Plate Donations Needed
We have more rescued kittens than ever before and ask for your help with donations of canned cat food to Nevada SPCA.
Thank you!
Front office staff and volunteers are at Nevada SPCA headquarters from 9am-4pm weekdays and 9am-5pm on Fridays and Saturdays.
Honor Animals' Strong Bonds and Adopt Soul-mates
Immensely social animals, dogs often do best in pairs, or triples, for lifelong companionship, with more than enough unconditional devotion to bless you with too.
We work hard to honor the strong bonds that animals build with one another and on any given day there may be a half dozen or more soul-mates who need to be adopted together.
Pairs are harder to adopt, but splitting them up is usually out of the question for many reasons, including the high probability of severe depression that would result from a broken heart.
One strongly bonded pair we hope you will consider is Kona & Scoop. Their remarkable portrait posted here is courtesy of Pet'ographique to help them get adopted together.
These two rarely stop smiling. They are jolly and bursting with good cheer, happy to have each other even when they lost everything else when their previous owner moved away without them.
Both Kona & Scoop enjoy playing ball and they are housetrained and crate-trained. Kona is a girl, medium-size Retriever mix, spayed, 5 years. Scoop is a boy, Pomeranian mix, neutered, 2 years of age.
Please visit and ask for Kona & Scoop by name, or any of the other strongly bonded pairs who are waiting for someone special to welcome them into their homes and lives today. Thank you.
"Easter Bunnies"
Rabbits, like all pets, need forever homes where they are cherished and regarded as members of the family.
Much of the rabbit overpopulation crisis in southern Nevada, and nationally, stems from the use of bunnies for a holiday gimmick.
Each year, tragically, in the months after the Easter holiday, we are bombarded with unwanted domesticated rabbits. Many meet tragic ends after being abandoned in parks, golf courses, desert areas, backyards, and so on.
Please help encourage family, friends, and co-workers to adopt animals from Nevada SPCA and other reputable shelters that spay/neuter them prior to adoption. It is critically important not to buy them from breeders and end up encouraging more breeding.
Please visit Nevada SPCA's Lovebugs Room for more information about rabbit care, adoption, and responsible pet ownership.
Students Saving Lives
The amazing, compassionate second-grade students at Meadows School in Las Vegas raised almost $7,000 for Nevada SPCA's animal rescue work at their annual Valentine's Day Bake Sale!
The students created their own booths and costumes, then baked cookies, brownies, lollipops, chocolate bars, cupcakes, and numerous other treats for sale to parents, teachers, visitors, and other students.
The bake sale followed the students' tours of Nevada SPCA's headquarters in January and early February. They helped feed the rabbit and guinea pigs their daily salad greens, learned about dog training, explored the free-roaming Cat Condo playrooms, met hundreds of rescued animals, and learned about the adoption process.
They presented their donation to Nevada SPCA and celebrated their achievements with assemblies on February 25th during a mock telethon they created for animals, complete with singing, dancing, and other educational performances.
The initiative and enthusiasm of the students gives us tremendous hope for the future!
The World Is A Kinder Place With Every Innocent Life Saved
Deepest thanks to all of you who support animal rescue and adoption.
The animals need you. Every time you adopt, donate, volunteer, foster, or share the animals' pictures and descriptions on Facebook and other social media, you are making our community that much better for those who don't have a voice of their own.
With your help we are shattering the myth that rescued animals are somehow flawed, when the truth instead is usually that a person has failed them. And we are encouraging people to think of adoption as forever, a lifelong commitment to making an animal a cherished member of the family.
We strive for an end to the pet overpopulation crisis, when people choose adoption and rescue over buying from puppy mills, backyard breeders, and others who are worsening the plight of animals.
Nevada SPCA is honored to have your support and participation.
Nevada SPCA has a new web site!
We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
Besides featuring larger images of the adoptable rescued animals, it is now easier to share each animal's feature (with family, friends, and co-workers) through Facebook, Twitter, email, and other media. And with time we plan to utilize many other new features to help the animals find forever homes.
The silhouettes of animals in color blocks at top right make it easy for you to immediately jump to the pages you are most interested in seeing.
When you click a preview picture you will be taken to each animal's feature. Lay your cursor over the animal's picture and it will enlarge for you.
Very special thanks to Dan Geary and the other wonderful people at Proof Interactive for donating their professional talents and time to create this unique web site to help Nevada SPCA save the lives of community animals in need.
P.S. We are still transferring content to the new site, so please bear with us as the site is completed. Thank you.
