The fifth annual Spay Day is February 23rd. It was created by Doris Day to encourage each humane American to take responsbility for having one cat or dog spayed or neutered during February. It can be your own pet, a friend's or neighbor's, or one awaiting adoption at your local animal shelter or human society.

One female cat and her offspring can produce 420,000 cats in seven years, and one female dog and her offspring can produce 67,000 dogs in six years. Amazing, isn't it?! Many of these offspring starve or die of disease or exposure on the streets or go to shelters where they are euthanized because there are no homes to be adopted into.

It costs $2 billion of our tax dollars to catch, kill, and dispose of these helpless creatures - 6 to 8 million of them - each year!

In the past four years of Spay Day, participants have altered 250,000 cats and dogs which has prevented millions of future births and needless suffering and death, but we need to continue!

Lady and Sam have been spayed and neutered as we believe in not only being responsible parents but responsible pet owners as well. It's rewarding to be a part of the solution to the sadness of pet overpopulation, and we can say, "We have helped save millions of animals today by having our pets spayed and neutered!"

If you do participate in this responsibility, please call toll-free 1-888-SPAY-DAY between February 1st and March 31st to report having an animal altered. This will help track the progress.

The Doris Day Animal League (formerly known as "The Doris Day Pet Foundation") is a very important organization that not only founded "Spay Day" but also supports animal rescue projects as well and will soon undertake another very important project - a a spay/mobile that will spay and neuter animals for low or no cost right in the vehicle! They will also have their own web site (currently in development), and you will find the URL here as soon as it is available.

Thanks for visiting this site and for getting involved! If you would like more information or to make donations, please contact or write:

Spaying/neutering will make my pet fat. NOT TRUE. Too much food and not enough exercise are the main cause of obesity.

She should have one litter first. NOT TRUE. It is actually better for her not to have a litter or a heat period before being spayed. Although animals have traditionally been altered at six months, veterinarians are now practicing early spay/neuter surgery, which can be performed on animals as young as eight weeks.