Kenmore-based Pawsitive Alliance is excited to announce the organization has received a 2015 grant from Best Friends Animal Society to continue its successful Highway 2 Transport Clinics, which provide spay and neuter services for the pets of low income families. This service is helping to reduce the number of homeless animals in Snohomish County from Monroe to Index. More than 60 percent of the intakes at the local shelter are strays or abandoned pets.

“This grant means that we can continue this very successful lifesaving project partnering with Pasado’s Safe Haven in Sultan,” said Yolanda Morris, co-founder and board president. “With the support from Best Friends, we are now able to increase the total number for this spay/neuter project to 600-plus cats and dogs in the targeted area along Highway 2. Our overall goal for this transport clinic project is to impact the number of stray animals and unwanted litters in the communities of Monroe, Gold Bar, Sultan and Index.”

Reservations for low income cat and dog spay/neuters are now being accepted for the Highway 2 Transport Clinic. Reservations can be made at http://www.pasadosafehaven.org/snohomish-county-spay-neuter-program/

Pawsitive Alliance participates in Best Friends’ No More Homeless Pets Network, a program offering financial and technical support to shelters, rescue groups, and other grassroots animal welfare organizations saving lives in their communities.

Liz Finch, senior manager of Best Friends National Programs, added, “This grant project will help address one of the critical components in the homeless pets issue. By helping families afford to spay and neuter their companion animals, we can make a significant impact on the number of unwanted litters that are born each year.”

Every day, more than 9,000 pets are killed in U.S. shelters because they don’t have homes. Best Friends Animal Society and its No More Homeless Pets Network partners, including Pawsitive Alliance, are committed to saving them. This lifesaving grant is part of Best Friends Animal Society’s determination to Save Them All.