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đź“‹ Before You Book: The Spay & Neuter Checklist

Surgical requirements change depending on the clinic, available grant funding, and your location. To ensure a smooth experience for you and your pet, run through this quick checklist before you contact a provider:
  • Check Availability & Scheduling: Many low-cost clinics do not accept walk-ins for surgery. You will likely need to book an appointment weeks in advance or apply for a subsidized voucher on a specific day of the month when funding reloads.
  • Confirm Fasting Rules: Nearly all clinics require pets to skip breakfast the morning of surgery to ensure safe anesthesia. Always double-check the exact time your chosen clinic wants you to stop food and water the night before.
  • Understand Carrier and Leash Policies: For the safety of all animals in a busy waiting room, dogs must arrive on a secure, non-retractable leash. Cats must almost always arrive in a clean, hard-sided plastic carrier (usually limited to one cat per carrier).
  • Ask About Extra Costs: While the core surgery may be heavily discounted or covered by a voucher, ask if there are mandatory fees for pain medication, a recovery cone, or updated rabies vaccines if your pet isn't already current.
  • Prepare a Quiet Recovery Space: Your pet will need a small, confined, and quiet area at home (like a crate, bathroom, or small bedroom) to rest and heal for 10 to 14 days after surgery away from children and other household pets.

Athens-Clarke County

Athens Area Humane Society
Address:1030 Mitchell Bridge Road
Athens, GA 30606
Pet food pantry and wellness clinic, in addition to spay/neuter services with special pricing for community cats (ferals).

Barrow County

Leftover Pets
30A Woodlawn Avenue
Winder, GA 30680
Low cost spay-neuter for pets, with special pricing for feral cats.

Beaufort County

Hilton Head Humane Assoc. Spay/Neuter Clinic
10 Pritcher Point
Okatie, SC 29909
Low-cost spay-neuter clinic, as well as offers vaccines, microchips and special pricing for feral cats.

Bibb County

SAFE - Saving Animals from Euthanasia, Inc.
4480 Riverside Drive
Macon, GA 31210
Low cost spay/neuter clinic, including feral cats.

Chatham County

Humane Society of Greater Savannah
7215 Sallie Mood Drive
Savannah, GA 31406
Low cost spay-neuter, vaccines, and microchips. Also offers a pet food pantry.

National Spay Alliance Savannah
11 Gateway Blvd. South, Suite 18
Savannah, GA 31419
Low cost spay-neuter, vaccines, and exams.

Save A Life
PO Box 16730
Savannah, GA 31416
Discount spay-neuter certificates.

Cherokee County

CatSnip
310 Gilmer Ferry Road, Suite 100
Ball Ground, GA 30107
Low cost spay-neuter for dogs and cats at main clinic and mobile cat spay-neuter clinics around Georgia. Special pricing for feral cats.

Coweta County

HELP Spay/Neuter Clinic
12 The Crescent
Newnan, GA 30263
Reduced cost spay-neuter, vaccines, heartworm preventatives, microchips. Special pricing for feral cats. Trap rental available.

West Georgia Mobile Vet
91 Selt Road
Newnan, GA 30263
Low cost spay-neuter mobile clinic.

DeKalb County

Lifeline Animal Project - Atlanta
3180 Presidential Drive
Atlanta, GA 30340
Low cost spay-neuter for pets, with special pricing for feral cats. Also offers general veterinary, vaccines and a pet pantry.

Pet Buddies Food Pantry
PO Box 18062
Atlanta, GA 30316
Pet food for owners in need in Eastside Atlanta. Spay-neuter sponsorship (including feral cats) for owners in financial need.

Dougherty County

CatNappers
PO Box 71203
Albany, GA 31707
Trap/Neuter/Return resources for ferals, semi-ferals and strays in southwest Georgia.

Douglas County

Douglas County Humane Society
2171 Mack Road, Deer Lick Park
Douglasville, GA 30135
Pet food for county residents in need, as well as spay-neuter assistance.

West Georgia Spay Neuter Clinic
5971 Sutton Drive
Douglasville, GA 30135
Low cost spay-neuter, vaccines, preventatives, and microchips. Special pricing for feral cat spay-neuter.

Fayette County

Fayette Humane Society
PO Box 244
Fayetteville, GA 30214
Veterinary, spay-neuter, and food assistance if you are in financial need.

Floyd County

Public Animal Welfare Services
99 North Avenue NE
Rome, GA 30161
Reduced cost spay-neuter, including rabies vaccine and microchip at time of surgery.

Forsyth County

Furkids
5235 Union Hill Road
Cumming, GA 30040
Low cost and free spay-neuter for community cats (ferals) and help with TNR. Low-cost vaccine clinics, including microchips and heartworm preventative are also available.

Humane Society of Forsyth County
4440 Keith Bridge Road
Cumming, GA 30041
Discount spay-neuter, veterinary care, vaccines, preventatives, and microchips. Pet food pantry and TNR assistance.

Pet Vet Inc.
4630 Martin Road
Cumming, GA 30041
Low cost office visits, spay-neuter and vaccines.

Fulton County

Fix Georgia Pets
6300 Powers Ferry Rd NW 600 191
Atlanta, GA 30339
Reduced cost spay-neuter vouchers.

Lifeline Animal Project - College Park
2533 Sullivan Road
College Park, GA 30337
Low cost spay-neuter for pets, with special pricing for feral cats. Vaccine clinics and mobile vaccine clinics (includes microchips).

Windward Animal Hospital
11895 Jones Bridge Road
Johns Creek, GA 30005
Discounted spay-neuter for rabbits.

Gilmer County

Homeward Bound Pet Rescue
PO Box 792
Elijay, GA 30540
Discount spay-neuter certificates.

Glynn County

Humane Society of South Coastal GA
4637 US Highway 17 N
Brunswick, GA 31525
Reduced cost spay-neuter (vaccines can be given at time of surgery for an additional cost) and a pet food bank.

Gwinnett County

Planned PEThood
2860 Buford Hwy, Bldg. F, Suite 2
Duluth, GA 30096
Low cost spay-neuter (with special pricing for feral cats), as well as wellness care, vaccines, microchips and preventatives.

Society of Humane Friends
651 N. Clayton Street
Lawrenceville, GA 30046
Low cost spay-neuter clinic.

SPOT Society
PO Box 81606
Atlanta, GA 30048
Low and no cost spay-neuter assistance for pet owners in need.

Hall County

Humane Society of Northeast GA
845 West Ridge Road
Gainesville, GA 30501
Reduced cost spay-neuter, veterinary services, preventatives and free vaccination clinics.

Hamilton County

Chattaneuter
5950 Brainerd Road
Chattanooga, TN 37421
Low cost spay-neuter and vaccines with appointment. Walk-in vaccine clinics a few times a month, which include microchips.

Henry County

Jazzy Paw, Inc.
11334 Tara Boulevard
Hampton, GA 30228
Low cost spay-neuter for pets, with special pricing for feral cats, as well as regular veterinary care and vaccines.

Lowndes County

Humane Society of Valdosta/Lowndes County
1740 W. Gordon Street
Valdosta, GA 31601
Low cost spay-neuter for pets, with special pricing for feral cats.

Madison County

Madison-Oglethorpe Animal Shelter
1888 Colbert Danielsville Road
Danielsville, GA 30633
Low cost spay-neuter, with special pricing for feral cats, as well as vaccine clinics and pet food pantry. Additional spay-neuter assistance available for those in need.

Meriwether County

Coco's Cupboard, Inc.
22599 SR-85
Gay, GA 30218
Pet food for owners in need, as well as spay-neuter assistance. Apply online.

Muscogee County

Affordable Veterinary Services
7600 Kayne Blvd.
Columbus, GA 31909
Low cost, affordable spay-neuter, vaccines and veterinary services. Microchips available.

PAWS Humane
4900 Milgen Road
Columbus, GA 31909
Offers low cost spay-neuter, with special pricing for ferals, as well as vaccines, microchips and preventatives.

Nationwide

Friends of Animals
777 Post Road, Suite 205
Darien, CT 06280
Reduced cost spay-neuter certificates nationwide.

Pickens County

Pickens Animal Rescue Veterinary Hospital
371 N. Main Street
Jasper, GA 30143
Low cost spay-neuter, as well as regular veterinary care.

Statewide

SpayGeorgia
PO Box 3780
Lilburn, GA 30048
Statewide program that offers low cost spay-neuter certificates

Sumter County

Sumter Humane Society
108 Industrial Boulevard
Americus, GA 31719
Spay-neuter assistance program.

Telfair County

Rescue Ranch
783 US 441
McRae-Helena, GA 31055
Low cost spay neuter.

Thomas County

South Georgia Low Cost Spay & Neuter Clinic
425 Covington Avenue
Thomasville, GA 31792
Low cost spay-neuter clinic, with special package for feral cats. Traps available for rent.

Walton County

ETC Georgia
PO Box 761
Loganville, GA 30052
Spay/neuter, vetting, food and doghouses to owners in need.

Paradox Spay/Neuter Clinic
1200 Industrial Park Way
Loganville, GA 30052
Low cost spay-neuter, including ferals, as well as vaccines, microchips and wellness visits.

Walton Animal Guild
PO Box 169
Monroe, GA 30655
Spay-neuter assistance program for county residents in need.

Whitfield County

My Kids Have Paws
169 Waterfront Way
Dalton, GA 30720
Reduced cost spay-neuter, vaccines, microchips, testing and other veterinary care. Special pricing for feral spay-neuter.

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