LSU Vet Med Spay-Neuter

The LSU School of Veterinary Medicine is dedicated to improving the lives of shelter animals and helping to control the stray animal population.

We work with animal welfare groups to provide low cost spay/neuter procedures for stray/feral cats.

06/15/2022

Need an outside cat?

We have plenty of working cats ready to do their job!!!
Sometimes we intake cats that are unable to be placed up for adoption into a home environment.
These cats are placed up for adoption as “Working/Barn Cats”. This allows these cats to receive the shelter, access to food, water and care they need while offering the service of expert rodent control to their kindhearted adopters.
Working cats are feral or semi-feral fully vetted cats adopted at a reduced charge to families with barns, warehouses, shops, sheds, garages, etc. who would like a cat to help with pest control and/or to keep farm animals company.

06/14/2022

Please put your dogs and cats on heartworm prevention! 💛💜🐛

Heartbreaking.

This is why we require all adopters give their pets monthly heartworm prevention. We require it not just when someone applies to adopt, but require you prove a history of giving prevention.

ONE mosquito bite started this. ONE. Monthly heartworm prevention is necessary 12 months a year. It takes one infected mosquito bite to cause this. It can happen inside your house or on a 5 minute potty break.

Monthly prevention is the only way to stop this from happening!!

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UPDATE 6/14/22: We recognize this post has gotten a lot of attention, shares and comments - which is great! However, with that said, a lot of incorrect and/or harmfully false information about heartworms is being shared as factual in the comment thread.

For more information about what kind of parasite heartworms are, how they are contracted (through mosquitos), why humans don't get heartworms, and why it's important to keep your dog on prevention year-round, please visit: https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/animal-health-literacy/keep-worms-out-your-pets-heart-facts-about-heartworm-disease #:~:text=Heartworms%20are%20only%20transmitted%20by,before%20they%20become%20adult%20worms.

If you have questions or concerns about heartworms, please consult YOUR VETERINARIAN and not Facebook warriors.