Spay & Neuter Investment Project (SNIP)
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Extending end date
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One year on
24 October 2024It’s been a year since we opened this give a little page and what a year it’s been. Thanks to your support we have improved the lives of so many dogs, since Jo and I started, we count over 200 dogs have been desexed through SNIP. With hopes of many more surgeries to come, we are extending the end date of this page! Jo and I will keep fighting for these dogs - just the other day we were asked for help with a pregnant stray dog, Jo rushed over that night with food, flea and worming, bedding and even a date for her desexing surgery. There are still so many dogs that need our help, so please continue to support us with our extended give a little page ❤️
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More Mama dogs desexed ♥️
12 June 2024The gorgeous girl on the right was desexed this week, the 2 others are booked in. As you can tell they have all recently been mothers and were/are at risk of becoming pregnant again. Due to the lack of funding at this time, these are the dogs we are focusing on: the VERY high riskers.
The owners were very grateful for Jo’s help in education and the opportunity to get their girls desexed and stop the endless cycle of unwanted pups.
I’m seeing puppies being given away daily on Facebook community pages, and all I can think is “imagine if we hadn’t desexed all the dogs we have already”. There would be double the posts, double the stress and double the dumpings.
I’ve asked friends for any contacts with the media as we need to get some publicity on the importance of our cause - it’s the only way forward. I’ve just been contacted by a journalist at a radio station to talk about mandatory desexing and our desexing cause. I’m hoping something good comes of it!!
As always, thank you for your on going support. Please reach out if you have any questions or concerns, or you’re able to help in any way
Jo & Chloe
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Pregnant with 1 puppy that would’ve killed her
31 May 2024Last Sunday Jo went to visit a feeding mum with puppies. While speaking to the owners, they told her the dog at the house in front may also be pregnant so Jo being the ballsy lady she is, waddled on over to have a chat. The dog was pregnant, to her brother. The owners were adamant they did not want to deal with a litter of puppies, so Jo offered to get her desexed. By a complete stroke of luck my Monday desexing appointment had been impounded so we had a vacancy! The owners were super keen and dropped her off first thing the next morning. She was pregnant, but only to 1 pup. It was 1 very large puppy. The vets suspect she naturally aborted the others but this one failed and continued to grow, absorbing all the nutrients that were meant for the others. They advised that the mum dog likely would’ve died if she went full term and tried to birth this pup because of how huge it was. What are the chances of us finding this dog and being able to get it a desexing appointment the very next day that very likely saved its life?? Nothing ever fails to amaze me these days!! Her beautiful face is our photo this week ♥️
I swear every where we turn there’s unwanted puppies. It’s exhausting but just proof that we need to keep going.
Jo, myself and all these dogs we’ve helped, appreciate every single cent you have trusted us with. We are making a difference, even though it seems like we can’t keep up with the demand, we have changed so many lives already and we need to keep going.
Jo&Chloe
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THANK YOU!
10 May 2024I just wanted to take some time to thank you guys, after our last update we received some awesome donations which allowed us to desex a few more high risk dogs! At the moment we are just focusing on the high riskers, the mums and the roaming dogs. Just yesterday I saw a post with a photo of 2 roaming dogs in a tie, the poster making a joke about the owners having to look after puppies soon 🤦🏼♀️ hopefully the owners will reach out and we can desex the female before the puppies are born.
On a brighter note, we desexed this gorgeous girl last week. Jo drove from the other side of Auckland to take her to and from the vet herself to ensure she would be desexed as she’s had 3 previous litters, we didn’t want to risk not getting her spayed asap. Jo got a call from the vet once she was done…. She was pregnant AGAIN with 11 puppies… this would’ve have been her 4th unwanted litter 😭
We are so relieved to get her desexed in time as the previous unwanted litters were given away at just a few weeks old, her life is now going to be SO much better now, no more pregnancies or puppies for you darling ♥️
Thank you to all our supporters, you’ve helped so many lives improve already. Jo and I see it daily, we really are making a difference in these dogs lives.
We hope you have a fantastic week and we will see you at the next update!
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We’ve hit a road block!
24 April 2024We’ve had a few more surgeries done this week including this mum dog who’s had puppies recently. The owner of was giving the pups away on fb so I jumped on the opportunity to desex mum before she gets pregnant again. Luckily enough the vet could book her in that Saturday (it’s a miracle getting one so quickly but they obviously love what we do thankfully!). I decided to meet the owners at the vet themselves so they could meet me in person, I also gave them a bag of food for her and the pup. Her owners were extremely thankful and shook my hand in appreciation, they were lovely people and simply had just not been educated about pregnancy and puppies. She is healing nicely ❤️
I’ve also just got word of a pregnant dog and the owners are not wanting the pups. So fingers crossed that same vet can get her booked in asap and we can get her desexed before it’s too late!
Unfortunately our bank account is now empty so I’m having to stop all bookings for the time being (this pregnant dog being the last), until we get some funds in. If you’d like to help fundraise for our cause, please use the give a little page link and feel free to message me on Facebook. If you can, please share share share this page far and wide, you never know who’s out there! Media coverage of our work would be amazing and surely bring in some more supporters!
Thank you as always for your support and have an awesome week ♥️
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We need your help!!
8 April 2024Since working closely with Mangere Bridge Vet we have left the surgery bookings to them. We provide the details to the owners, and they organise the desexing themselves directly with the vet. Unfortunately this means there is a delay in exact numbers of how many desexed, but the clinic manager has said they are doing AT LEAST 2 a day of our SNIP owners!! We started using them end of February so with that math we must’ve desexed over 60+ just at 1 Vet (not to mention we have been desexing at other vets too!). And I know for a fact just last Monday there were 5 of ours going in for surgery. I’m so immensely proud of the work we are all doing and it’s so critical that we continue.
These two girls were desexed through SNIP the other day and the owners were so thankful and impressed with the vet staff and experience they had. They were rescued by the owner from a horrible situation and she knew she just had to get them out there with out thinking twice.
Unfortunately at the moment our funds are extremely low and Jo and I are having to top up constantly from our own pockets. Money is tight for us too but we just can’t stop now when there’s a crisis out there. Please if you can donate, do, if you can’t then share share share this page!
As always thank you for your support
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THIS is why we need to keep going
27 March 2024Last week this post popped up on a South Auckland community page. A puppy found dead in a gutter. Turns out the owners dog had a litter and gave the puppies away to “good homes”, less than 24hours later a pup was found dead. We hear this all the time: “I have good homes for all 10 puppies” and weeks later we get asked for puppy food or to take the pups because those homes fell through. Yesterday I got a message for a second time asking for puppy food when I’d already offered them a spay abort months before hand and explained how expensive puppies are. They refused and are now obviously struggling.
On a brighter note, since the last update Jo and other volunteers did 3 big food drops and got HEAPS of engagement from people wanting to desex. I think with posts like this one, they’re starting to see why we need to stop breeding. Im proud to say, the main vet we use have a 2 month wait because of all our future desexes booked 😅 we do have other vets available but they’re more expensive so we use them only for emergency desexes or if the owners can cover some of the costs themselves.
PLEASE if you can spare some cash this week then please donate into this Give a Little. I have just paid our latest bill and are down to $250 in the desexing account. It’s awesome to have so many surgeries booked but we need some way to fund them, and in all honesty if we don’t get them done now, they may never get done. We need to keep going, even if it runs us dry!
Thank you for your support ♥️
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9 month old pregnant to her brother 😬
9 March 2024Yesterday on my day off I drop these gorgeous girls to their desexing appointment on the other side of Auckland. They were high risk as the tan girl has had at least one litter before, the white girl is her daughter from the most recent litter. The owners also still have the brother who is being desexed next Friday - unfortunately the vets couldn’t book them all in for the same day, so we decided the girls are more important to get done first! And lucky we did because it turns out that gorgeous 9 month old girl was pregnant with 7 pups! Speaking to the owners about it, they admitted it would’ve been her brother who impregnated her 😬
We are so lucky a friend of theirs got in contact with us for help, otherwise who knows what would happen if she was allowed to have these pups. The pregnancy was in early stages so the spay abort was easy for the vets and they were thoughtful enough not to charge us extra for it. The owners are extremely greatful and I enjoyed getting to know these lovely dogs. I’ll be transporting the brother next week, and will give them collars, a Bravecto for mum (suspected mange) and some food to say thank you for their trust in us.
As always, I hope you have an awesome week and thank you for your support. Without you we would not be able to prevent so much suffering ♥️
Chloe & Jo
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High risk mum dogs were spayed this week
29 February 2024On Tuesday this week we had 4 desexes, 2 of them were high risk of becoming pregnant again after having multiple litters in the past. Because both were high risk and we weren’t sure if the owners would be responsible enough to get to the appointments, we had to organise transport. We managed to get a couple amazing volunteers who drove from one end of Auckland to the other, and back, just to make sure these girls got spayed. We are SO thankful to have such committed supporters and these dogs wouldn’t have been desexed if it weren’t for them.
I’d like to talk about the girl in the second photo for a second. We worked our butts off trying to find where this dog lived after multiple posts of her roaming on the community pages over a span of a few weeks. We could see she’d had puppies recently so we knew she had to find the owners. We managed to track down what street this dog lived on thanks to members on the community page who had seen her before, and we approached the owners. The family were uneducated about dog care and the risks of not desexing, which is why this lady had become pregnant and had puppies at 10 months old. They already had homes for the pups so we gave mum a worming tablet and left the family with food, bedding, care fliers and with the promise we would get mum desexed. A week later mum was desexed at one of our vets and the owners were thrilled.
Thank you to all our financial backers and driving helpers for making spays like this possible! ♥️
- Chloe & Jo
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Winning week
22 February 2024We had a few absolutely huge wins this week. These two girls featured in this weeks photo were spayed after months and months of hounding the owner. We have been working with them since mid last year when a rescue took a litter of puppies off the owner, and hadn’t heard back from them, to the point where Jo had to visit their house on multiple occasions just to get in contact with them. We decided we needed someone to pick up the mum and pup up and actually take them to the appointment, otherwise they’d never get desexed. So I took to the Instagram community and found some amazing volunteers who could do the transporting! Who ever said social media was a negative thing?? Turns out the mum was already pregnant again with 8 more puppies which the owners didn’t want. The pregnancy was terminated. Jo and I cried for the puppies and apologised to them for this shitty cruel world that has caused us to make this decision about their lives. Both dogs are healing nicely and are due for a check up soon.
We have signed up deals with 3 new vets around the Auckland region which opens up SO MANY new opportunities for desexing anywhere and everywhere.
We also did a huge food drop out West in the weekend and gave out vouchers for desexing - it was awesome to be able to do that with the support and backing from our vets who are booking dogs in for us on our behalf. I see huge plans for the future with these new vets and I can’t wait to get dogs booked in for their surgery!
Thank you all♥️
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Let’s talk spay aborts
11 February 2024Abortion with humans has been a hot topic in the most recent years but I don’t think it’s talked about enough in the animal world. Not enough rescues go through with spay aborts and would rather say no to hundreds of dogs who are already living miserable lives while they’re waiting for the mum dog to pop. This seems backwards to me, why are we putting all our resources into dogs who aren’t even on this earth yet, and not giving those already here a chance?
Jo and I visited 5 mother dogs with an average of 8 puppies each, 40 puppies. Majority of the 40 pups will be given away to whoever turns up first after a fb post and likely won’t be desexed and may have their own litters, ever adding to the population. Not to mention if they go to really crap owners.
So far we have spay 4 pregnant females, preventing 29 puppies from being born, therefore preventing the suffering and further breeding of 29 lives. Please understand this is not an easy decision for us to make, we have both cried having to organise these. Unfortunately we have got to the point in this country where spay aborts are necessary in trying to reduce the population.
In the photo this week is Hayley, who was spayed last month. I looked after her after surgery and could see she was much more relaxed and comfortable once she was no longer pregnant. The owners did not want her puppies and would’ve likely dumped them.
If you have any questions you are welcome to reach out, our page is all about being open and honest.
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142 desexes in 2023
1 January 2024142, imagine 142 dogs running in a field, or 142 cats in your house watching tv with you - wouldn’t that be absolutely chaotic! That’s how many animals were desexed through us in 2023. I can confidently say we have prevented thousands of animals being born into this already over populated world and I couldn’t be prouder. When I entered 2023 it was my goal to desex 10 animals; “surely 10 will make an impact, even if I need to pay it out of my own pocket, it will be so worth it”. I could never have imagined we would be at 50+, let alone 142! Believe me when I tell you I’ve checked my spreadsheet at least 5 times to make sure I have the count correct. Absolutely mind blowing!
What’s next? What does 2024 have in store for us? I’m not sure but I’m bloody excited to find out!
At the moment I have someone making up a poster I can share to Facebook community pages that offers free desexing for mum dogs, mainly targeting South Auckland. Recently I’ve seen Auckland Council Impound posts of young litters without mums, I can only assume the pups have been dumped - although these pups will hopefully go up for adoption and be desexed to stop the cycle, it still leaves mum dog intact and ready to get knocked up again. We just want these mums to be able to live without having to be pregnant again and again. Once I post on the community pages, I have a feeling I will get many many messages asking for help. The key here is to not cast judgment and just get these dogs desexed.
Bring on 2024!
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12 surgeries this week and an EPIC food drop
18 December 2023Jo and I have been busy as usual. We went to Otara with a heap of volunteers from multiple rescues and gave out Xmas dog packs to residents. We went with 5 car loads full of food, treats, bedding and toys and everything went! We couldn’t believe how many people turned up, hundreds of people and their dogs (photo attached). I got about 20 messages from people we spoke to needing help with desexing - some of those have already been booked in. Every single person thanked us for our help, even though they had to stand in a massive line for an hour, they were still so grateful. It was an exhausting night but my god it was rewarding.
Tonight we went to Ranui to do the same, it wasn’t as big of a turn out as Otara but that meant we could have really good conversation with the people who turned up. Again, everyone was so thankful for our help, especially at this time of year. A few people got my details and will be in touch for desexing help.
This week there are 12 surgeries booked; 9 dogs and 3 cats 🐶 🐱
I’m starting to fill up all of Januarys spaces already 😅
Thank you for your support and allowing us to make a difference ♥️
Please share this page and talk to people about our project, the more media it gets, the better! Tell people we are actually making a difference and preventing homeless animals - and tell people to put their money where their mouth is! 😂
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10 completed, 18 booked since last update
8 December 2023We had a few big wins for us last week; 3 mum dogs, 2 of which I’ve been trying to get desexed for 6+ months. 1 of them being the reason I started desexing this year; 6+ months ago I saw her pups were being given away on the local community fb page and though “f**k it, I can’t take them, rescues are overflowing, let’s just offer desexing for her and the pups (when they’re old enough) and see if we can prevent more being born”. Low and behold, some of the new owners of the pups got in contact and 5 months later 3 of the pups were desexed, but the owner of mama never replied after multiple attempts of me contacting them. I felt defeated to be honest, but proud that I managed to desex at least some of the pups. A couple weeks ago I had a cancellation of a male desex appointment so I posted on the pay it forward fb page to see if anyone else wanted the appointment. The owners mother of all people contacted me asking to let her know when a female appointment was up for grabs. I put 2 and 2 together, realised what dog she was referring to and JUMPED on the opportunity to make sure she doesn’t have more babies. A week later the desexing was complete and a 20kg bag of dog food dropped to them to say thank you for their trust in me.
We went to Henderson on Tuesday night with 3 car fulls - everything was gone in 2 hours and at least 10 people will be in contact with me about desexing.
As always, thank you for your support, you guys are helping us make a tremendous difference.
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110 desexes ✅
29 November 2023It’s crazy to think just a few months ago we were starting this journey - my personal goal was to desex 10 animals by the end of the year. Jo and I had a count up and I’m so pleased to announce we have desexed 110 animals since June! What the actual f**k.
I’m so immensely proud of the work we have achieved thus far and I really do believe it is going to make an impact next year. Since the last update we have desexed 11 animals, including 4 mama dogs who are now going to live their lives without having any more pups.
Jo has been working hard out South Auckland visiting these families and educating them as to what good pet ownership is all about - especially when it comes to things like deworming their dogs, but also how simple and fun it can be to enrich their dogs lives. The beautiful mama pictured in the photo has been spayed, wormed, flead, and the owners and her are loving playing with the toys Jo left them. The most important thing is the kids love getting involved too which sets them up for a successful life being a responsible pet owner.
Another beautiful update from one of our desexed boys can be seen here if you’d like to hear about his story too ♥️ https://www.facebook.com/share/p/t1n75oXw5gT4Rn54/?mibextid=WC7FNe
As always, we couldn’t have got this far without your support. Thank you so much, from the bottom of our hearts ♥️
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No more puppies
21 November 2023Another busy week for Jo and I, we revisited a few families to see how their dogs were getting on. One that had been previously chained 24/7 (because he kept escaping) was now off the chain running around like a happy chap. He was desexed through SNIP last week, is recovering very well and we’ve given the owner some enrichment ideas to keep the handsome boy entertained. The owner has really improved, is taking on our feedback and is on their way to being a great pet owner.
Since our last update 8 dogs have been desexed, including a huge win of 2 female dogs that have had multiple litters each already in their short life. They won’t be having any more puppies and can now enjoy their lives.
The thought of how many animals we have prevented, even just with these 8 dogs, is overwhelming. We are still getting messages every day asking for help desexing, just this morning I have booked 4 dogs in.
Potentially thousands of future pups have been prevented all thanks to your donations 🐶
This photo is showcasing some of the recent desexes and the lives that’s have been changed for the better ♥️
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A busy 2 weeks
13 November 2023It’s been a crazy couple weeks for Jo and I. One Saturday we drove to South Auckland with 2 cars full of kennels, bedding, food, toys etc and visited a few of our known dogs - 8 of them being on the same street! We set them all up for success and every owner has expressed their interest in desexing. In the two weeks that have passed we desexed 4 dogs, however we have been busy making bookings! At the moment we have 1 male booked in every Thursday until Christmas, and have 13 females booked until the end of the year. People are now starting to recognise our names within the North Shore, West and South communities so we are getting messages every day asking for help desexing their animals. We are still commenting on every roaming dog post we see in hopes the owners make contact (it actually works pretty well!) and we are building key relationships with these communities - my favourite part of our trip South last week was when one of the community members recognised Jo and yelled from across the street, excited to see her. She ran across the street to give Jo a huge hug and a thank you again for her help with previous dog food. It really shows the impact we are making in the animals and humans lives.
Last week we also did a community drop in Sunnynook (photo attached) and booked in a couple dogs because of the conversations we had on the day!
As always, thank you immensely for your support - we would not be able to make such an impact without you guys!
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3 dogs desexed and successful community food drops
22 October 20233 dog desexes were completed this week including a couple notorious roamers! This gorgeous girl was also desexed ♥️🐶
We have also approached a couple of dog owners in Beach Haven to offer food, bedding, collars etc and will offer desexing once the pups are old enough. Jo had a successful food and bedding drop in Otara yesterday, her car was FULL to the brim of bedding and it all went! Lots of dogs had comfy places to sleep last night thanks to Jo and her team. She spoke to many people yesterday and could easily make a metre long list of people needing help with desexing! The only thing stopping us from desexing them all is funding!
I’m in the middle of working out how to create SNIP as a registered charity so watch this space!
As always, thank you for your support ♥️
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10 surgeries in a week!
15 October 2023We had a fantastic past week, 10 dogs were desexed through SNIP! Including 2 previous mother dogs and this handsome lad who is a notorious roamer in Beach Haven.
This boy has fathered at least 5 litters this year alone 🤯
The owners are very thankful for our help and I’ve left them with a kennel, food, bones, flea and worming and have advised the roaming should decrease now he’s desexed ♥️
I drove him to his appointment myself to ensure he would get done, and I’ll keep in contact with the family and help them where I can 😁
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Desexed dogs
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Desexed dogs
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