The Yancey Humane Society held a ribbon cutting celebration Feb. 23 for a low-cost spay/neuter clinic, JJ’s Fix-A-Friend, it announced in a news release. It is housed in a newly built facility just steps away from the main animal shelter. The clinic will be a vital resource for Western North Carolina, helping reduce overpopulation and providing low-cost services to other shelters, and the public.
“It seriously is a dream come true,” said Renee Tomberlin, executive director of Yancey Humane Society. “Many of us have been working on bringing this to reality for at least a decade. The need is critical because shelter animals cannot be adopted until they have been spayed or neutered.
Tomberlin said in the release the Yancey Humane Society partnered for many years with the local American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, or ASPCA, spay/neuter clinic, based in Asheville, to perform its surgeries…