Act Now to Double Your Impact on Our Spay/Neuter Efforts

Vijay—

There are only a few hours left to have your donation to PETA's vital spay/neuter services matched. Don't miss this opportunity to have your gift go twice as far in order to keep more puppies and kittens from being born into homelessness! Please read the message below and act today to help PETA nip the homeless-animal crisis in the bud.

—Ingrid

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	Help us save lives and meet our goal of securing $50,000 in 24 hours to support PETA's Spay Day event and mobile veterinary clinics!     Dear Vijay,  When our fieldworkers found Pepper, an affectionate pit bull from a small, impoverished town in rural North Carolina, she showed signs of already having given birth to many litters of puppies. PETA arranged for this sweet dog to be transported to a life-changing (and -saving!) spay appointment at one of our mobile veterinary clinics so that her guardian will never again be able to add more "Pepper pups" to that region's population of homeless animals, nor will he be responsible for "peppering" backyards with more pit bulls in an area where chaining and dogfighting are part of country life. In 2013, this vital PETA program spayed or neutered 11,229 animals just like Pepper—and with your participation, we'll be able to help many, many more! For 24 hours starting Monday, February 24, at 6 p.m., PETA's mobile clinics will be hosting a special World Spay Day event to help end the animal overpopulation crisis in a region with one of the highest rates of homeless dogs and cats in the country. We need your help to raise $50,000 before 6 p.m. on February 25 to support Spay Day and the work of PETA's mobile clinics. A generous group of supporters* has agreed to match donations dollar for dollar up to $50,000 in this 24-hour period. With you on board, we can raise more than $100,000 for this lifesaving work and prevent countless animals from being born unwanted and condemned to a life of misery on the streets or to a lonely life sentence chained amid trash and mud in a far corner of someone's backyard. Will you help us meet this challenge by giving generously right now? Every day, PETA offers no- and low-cost spay and neuter services to dozens of dogs, cats, and other animals in underserved and deeply impoverished areas of Virginia and North Carolina that often don't haveany veterinary clinics, let alone a low-cost or free one. In the 13 years since this wonderful program began, PETA has spayed or neutered more than 100,000 animals—including thousands of unsocialized dogs and cats many other clinics would have turned away. Our fleet of state-of-the-art mobile clinics is bringing about a dramatic reduction in the number of unwanted and abandoned animals throughout our target areas. As you likely know, unwanted animals are often abandoned to fend for themselves. They succumb to untreated injuries and illnesses, become victims of neglect and abuse, or are turned over to overburdened animal shelters with little hope of being adopted. The homeless-animal crisis is truly a matter of life and death, and through our Spay Day initiative and year-round spay/neuter program, we're preventing the births of millionsof puppies and kittens who would never know a loving home. Please help PETA do even more to curb animal overpopulation and homelessness by giving today. Your generous gift right now will immediately push us closer to reaching our matching-challenge goal of $50,000—and to securing a total of $100,000 to help fund Spay Day and continue our work to bring about a day when all companion animals have a good home waiting for thembefore they are born. By supporting the life-changing work of PETA's mobile clinics, you'll be helping us reach that wonderful day sooner. Kind regards, Daphna Nachminovitch Senior Vice President of Cruelty Investigations P.S. Spay Day is a terrific opportunity to provide animals in underserved areas with no- or low-cost spay and neuter services and to combat the animal overpopulation crisis head on! We have only 24 hours to do this.Will you help strengthen this vitally important program with a special gift today? *PETA is thankful to the following supporters for making this Spay Day match possible: Alysoun Mahoney and Gregory Reiter, The Celia and Marcos Family Institute, Ron and Patty Allison, and Vincelee Stevens and Alex Singer.