Your help can make a difference.

Cheerio, Abby, Scotch, Peanut and a passel of    Alabama puppies know this to be true.

In recent months we have had more heartbreaking health issues with animals than we have seen in a while. 

Invasive mammary cancer in senior dogs Abby and Scotch, unexplained and seriously elevated liver values for Peanut, bladder stones and a mass on his foot for Cheerio that would typically warrant amputation, and highly contagious ringworm in Bessie, Betsy, Blake, and Becca brought in on a dog transport from a high kill shelter in Alabama. 

In a typical shelter, medical conditions of this nature would make animals                unadoptable. But not at the SPCA of Tompkins County. We take our no-kill status seriously. And our loving adopters do, too.

How we help them

Our superb medical team from the Maddie's Shelter Medicine program at Cornell University, along with our veterinary technicians and animal care attendants, readily take on the challenge of caring for these all of these animals, and many more just like them, every week of the year.

Our veterinarians provided surgery to remove complex mammary carcinomas from Abby and Scotch, offered intensive care and intravenous fluids for Peanut, performed a cystotomy to remove urinary stones from Cheerio, and created an infectious disease isolation ward for our energetic ringworm puppies.

Wearing Tyvek suits, gloves, boots, and hair nets, our shelter staff provided daily oral          medications, twice-weekly anti-fungal dips/baths, and once-per-week fungal culture testing.  All of this took place for eight weeks in our rescue building while running normal operations and providing routine medical care and surgical procedures for many other animals.

Our goal in this lifesaving work? 

To move them from the medical wards in our rescue building, to the loving care of our volunteers in the Dorothy and Roy Park Pet Adoption Center, and from there to their happily-ever-after homes with Elizabeth and Christopher, Mary Kate, Leigh, Jennifer, Bryan, Justin, and Jacqueline, and other animal lovers just like you.

Can you please help us with support for medical care?

We would be forever grateful to you, and so would our animals. 

Thank you for all you do for the SPCA of Tompkins County.