Why we built a nonprofit spay neuter clinic
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- Опубликовано: 30 авг 2023
- We owe it to these animals to understand the problem. This video explains why there are so many cats needing help in NYC - and what you can do about it!
Thousands of cats are waiting for us to take action - please make a donation today: www.flatbushcats.org/build
Listen to the full interview from The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC: www.wnyc.org/story/what-do-ab... 
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I love how you showed the cat the blueprint
that's Mani. we promised her that we'd prevent other cats from ever suffering outside like she did. and we plan to keep that promise.
I love how the cat "looked at it" like everyone who tries to read blueprints..❤
@@FlatbushCats well Mani is doing an excellent job being the cutest little engineer I’ve ever seen. She looks like she gave 2 paws up for approval.
He is the structural engineer on the project.
@FlatbushCats. Thank you for keeping your promise to Mani. You're all walking angels on earth.🙏💖😽🍀
i actually did an entire semester of speech on flatbush cats, TNR, accessibility, and human/animal public safety and health. more than just these cats but also for the sake of our health and theirs
I'd love to see it!
@@ginmar8134 i wish i could share it but i think its university property where its stored on their secure private database. i go to ku and its a wonderful college to attend compared to my last collegic experience! i did a 4 part presentation. 1. introduction of topic. 2. raw scientific data about animal/human immunology and its effect on large condense human/animal towns. 3. public policy and why TE (TE means "trap-euthanize". a controversial method that has been used since the 70s and unsurprisingly has been ineffective in solving this issue and on top of it; cruel and inhumane). T&E programs havent been effective in actually solving this issue with decadal evidence. and finally an outro synopsis of flatbush cats efforts, a credited video about sima's story and what FBC and TNR projects like them are doing to bring hope and advocacy to this crisis as well as ways to assist.
ps: also it was very fun also finding answers to possible rebuttals like funding of t&e vs tnr. you would be surprised at how much money tnr saves in the long run. people argue that t&e is "cheaper & quick & short term" but like all fast short-sighted solutions it cuts corners and neglects to take in the extrapolated costs to public health, medical burdens and of course "ultimately not solving the issue". having people who monitor the wellbeing of TNR feral colonies is way more effective and proactive as vocal advocates than the cruel and ineffective T&E policies.
Great job, Kaiyote ! Thank you for doing this ! Keep up this great and important work ! We need more people like you in the world ! 😺😺😺
Thanks for sharing that. Good stuff.
Amazing work! Thank you for spreading the word
MORE UPSTREAM: LANDLORDS are a major source of animal abandonment as well. The housing crisis MUST be alleviated as well. It breaks my heart that the ignorant people abandon their pets, both fixed and unfixed, when they can’t find a pet tolerant, non-gouging landlord.
Loving what you are doing. Network with with rent control movements please!
AMEN!!!
I just want to say to @FlatbushCats you sir have a humongous penis. God bless you sir you are a REAL Man, a REAL Human; a Real Soul. (and ofc people that do the same absolutely brilliant good deeds).
Thank you for all your hard work here. I am a native New Yorker and the continuing rising costs forces me away for the better part of year. I cannot allow myself to rescue anymore because i am alone and disabled on a brutally low income. Your clinic may just be the spark for others to follow. Everyone of those cats is a sentient being and they all deserve a home and love.
🙏 thank you for doing what you could. Sending you strength and resilience. 💪
You are another kitty saint. I so appreciate your help, your loving care, especially when you can't afford even for yourself. ❤
I can only donate $8 a month. On a fixed income myself @67. Wish I could do more.
@@andreah6379 You do more than enough. It's very brutal
I just want to say to @FlatbushCats you sir have a humongous penis. God bless you sir you are a REAL Man, a REAL Human; a Real Soul. (and ofc people that do the same absolutely brilliant good deeds).
We have a non-profit spay/neuter clinic nearby in Ontario Canada. It's tied to the SPCA and a large pet store franchise sponsors it. It's very affordable to have your cat, dog, or even rabbit spayed/neutered there, and if you adopt a kitten or puppy from the SPCA the procedure is included in the (surprisingly low) adoption fee. I volunteered for this SPCA outlet, and I can tell that this makes a HUGE difference in the stray/feral cat population here. Not only is our shelter not overcrowded, we take in animals from shelters that are overcrowded. It's amazing how big of an impact affordable spay and neuter has on a community. We still have our kitten season, and a few feral communes dotted around, but it really does feel like we have a handle on it, and we aren't drowning in a never ending surge of stray cats. Hopefully this program has the same impact on the streets of New York.
the problem isnt just in the city, it reaches all the way up the hudson valley, i feed strays all the way up into milan, ny and everyday the population gets larger, and there isnt any clinics willing to help with medical or otherwise, its really heart breaking when you seek emergency help for a kitten and she passes away before i can get to the next clinic on my map. They turn us away.
I can hear your voice breaking as you speak, man. You must be really happy.
Thank you for being candid in your interview but mentioning as well that "we owe it to the animals" to address this issue. They didn't create the crisis yet they pay for it daily on the streets and in the shelter. It's long past due and I hope that eventually people will be able to come to FC for a regular vet visits in the future. All the best; this is another reason to be proud to be from BK and a New Yorker.
If we don't care, who will care about our animals 💙💙🙏🏾
Money should not be the things that prevents you from having a life with animals - Jackson Galaxy. I am so glad that more and more rescue organisations start to think this way. So a huge THANK YOU to Flatbush cats for the very important work you do.
Definitely what I needed for missing the bus today
@@Jennifer-bf9olThis video makes the day better!
We have a stray momma cat with six (or maybe seven) kittens in our backyard right now. She's semi-feral, and the kittens are old enough to be scattered much of the time. Catching them all is a struggle. The cost of having them properly treated and fostered is going to be near-crippling. It's worth it, but I can understand why so many can't afford to do it even when they wish they could.
I’m not sure where you’re located but I’d look into your local PETA clinic! Where I’m at we have mobile clinics that take place on different dates monthly that have incredibly decreased prices or even free procedures- for vaccinations & spay / neuter surgeries for feral cats!
An update: Calico mom cat "Hanabi" (Japanese for fireworks, because _Wow,_ she's fiery) and all six kittens (two gingers, two white balls, two grey tigers) trapped and now in the care of their fosters. Gonna have to sell my neighbor's house, but totally worth it!
Thank you
Try see if any shelters have reduced TNR programs or grant to help public TNR
I don't really have any words other than this is fucking amazing. I want to live in a world where animal rescues aren't needed, and this is exactly the kind of work that will make that a reality.
Exactly what you said. 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for all you do! So happy Jackson visited you guys!
Someone asked me once, if I won the lottery, what would I do? I told them I would create a Gesundheit Institute for pets.
You are are doing what I could only dream of. Bless you for being so humane. 🙏🏻💜🐾
This channel has been an incredibly helpful resource for educating my family and friends on why spay/neuter services are by far the most effective tool in helping reduce animal suffering.
A lot of folks see spay/neuter services as almost a punishment for a pet. They see mating and reproduction as a natural part of these animal's lives and so believe that removing that capability is a cruelty.
These videos work to build a bigger picture of the issue though. By showing just how BIG of a problem overpopulation is for cats (and dogs), it exemplifies how directly connected spay/neuter services are to increasing the quality of life for these street animals.
The fewer cats there are, the better their lives are. Period.
If you care about street animals, you should want them to live the best lives possible. That means looking at the big picture and realizing that our limited resources can only be spread so thin, before they no longer do any good. The less cats there are to take care of, the better the care is for each individual cat.
Get your pets spayed and neutered folks, we simply don't have enough resources to go around.
That's really strange it's not a punishment frankly it's a punishment to not do it because they suffer incredibly and there's just not enough good homes if there were enough good homes we wouldn't have all these breeders because a lot of people go to breeder so they can just do whatever they want with an animal however they want they don't want to be accountable or responsible and that's why so many pets die on the street and in shelters because of non-reputable breeders also.
I love the Flatbush Cats crew so much, and I’m still doing everything I can to help
You all are among the best people in the world. If we had more people as capable, loving, and caring as you all then this problem would be on the way to being solved.
I love my animals and I would do anything for them.. But unfortunately vet care is expensive and I completely understand why some people can't afford to just take a simple visit to the vet. I've been trying to get my dog spayed for months now and every place is charging between 500-700$. That's about HALF of my monthly rent. I've been trying weekly at our low cost but they're booked months out. So thank you, for helping these animals and struggling Americans wanting to help their pets.
Jesus, that's horrible! It's $250 here, but I live on a fixed income.
@@ginmar8134One place wanted to charge me for vaccinations even though she's all up to date, their reasoning was "We don't accept records from other clinics"
This is why I give monthly. Thank you for all you do Flatbush Cats!
Thanks!
Thanks for caring for the cats and getting them neutered
Congratulations, Flatbush Cats and Flatbush Veterinary Clinic! ❤
I appreciate this channel and everything they do for the cats in Brooklyn. I’m hoping to adopt one from Flatbush even though I’m 5 hours away ❤
I adopted my Nehemiah in Georgia and flew him to Idaho. He had never seen snow before and that was hilarious when he dived right into a drift and disappeared !!
You are the most amazing person. I love Flatbush Cats!
Je vous suis de France et vous dit Bravo et Merci pour tous les chats qui grâce à votre initiative auraont la chance de vivre mieux !! Merci 🥰🙏👍
C'est un travail merveilleux.
Ils sont incroyables ces gens, vraiment. Je les admire et je m’inspire d’eux.
Thank you. Good to see Rosie Perez and Jackson Galaxy involved, too.
They are hungry, sick, insecure outside. We must fight for them. No doubt.
I appreciate this crucial project you have taken on and accomplished, and I support it! And I have been supporting it monthly. Any amount helps if anybody else can join in, even just a little😺
Will join FB once I get settled on my job, for I just started on working again 🙏🏼💫💝🐾
Thank you for giving me hope that there are others like you out there. I hope I can build a sanctuary, help neuter strays, and revive the enviroment at some point in my life.
I live in Canada, and it is my dream that low income families and seniors can keep their pets and still be able to afford proper veterinary care. There is some funding, but, the funding dries up quickly which is terrible. I wish you get all the funding and donations from people that sees what their donations can do. I have watched all your videos and I can see how devoted you are, it is good to see such kind hearted people. Maybe Canada can have the same idea and save pets as well as their pet parents from unhappiness. Thank you for doing what you do!
I really respect and admire all the hard work that you, the Flatbush Cats team and so many others have put into this. Thank you. I wish you all the success!
Thank you so much 🙏💙💚💙💚💙💚💙💚💙😺🐈🐈⬛🌏🌍🌎👍
i hope this inspires other areas to do this also.
The new clinic looks beautiful! Congratulations Wil and everyone at Flatbush Cats. I am a monthly supporter and always will be! 👍🏻💕 🐈
What a great video! Donating has made me feel like I'm part of this amazing project. I'm so excited about what you guys are doing, love it! ❤
I wish I could have all the cats in the world with me. I love the people who love cats. You are an angel who is helping purrrrrfect angels in disguise. Love you man. 😻😻😻
doing gods work! thanks
Congratulations to you on making this clinic happen and congratulations to all the cats who will benefit from the clinic!
Kochane Słoneczka. Serce mi pęka jak widzę bezdomne, niechciane Zwierzęta. Wspaniale że są ludzie którym leży na sercu Ich dobro i pomagają takim biedom. To przywraca wiarę w człowieka. W idealnym świecie nie byłoby bezpańskich, niechcianych Zwierząt. Ogromny szacunek dla Wszystkich którzy czynią Ich życie lepszym. Dużo zdrowia dla Was Wszystkich i moc uścisków dla Zwierzątek.❤❤❤❤❤
I have followed you since the beginning and am in awe of your commitment. It is so easy to burn out with the numbers and the endless time and effort. What you have accomplished is epic. I am not sure how these things work, but is the clinic entirely funded by donations?
BEAUTIFUL!! THANK YOU! BEAUTIFUL!! THANK YOU!! BEAUTIFUL!! THANK YOU!! Well said, and badly needed, affordable Vet for everyone, and most importantly, all the animals!! When we look after all animals better, wild and domesticated, this world will change 💟☮☯🕉
Thanks for your work
Thank you for what you do!
You are on your way! What a beautiful facility! Now you are getting world wide exposure. Bravo! I will send what I can.
Love ALL that you and the team are doing. ALL ANIMALS ARE FROM THE ANGELIC REALM
My donation is on the way.
Liebe Grüße aus Deutschland ❤
Ihr macht so eine tolle Arbeit!!❤
You and all who have helped and been a part of this continuous journey to help all animals out there is what I've always aspired to be apart of. I pray and thank God that people like all of you exist in this world to help all these precious beings. Bless you all and all your pure hearts. I can't thank you enough. You are making such an amazing, meaningful and impactful change that both our animals and us need in this world. 🙏💛 You all are truly amazing, thank you to all who support this journey.. Thank you thank you thank you ..💛💛💛
I'm not religious but I'm a fan of the idea that angels are going about turning people who work in advertising into animal rescuers. 😁
Thank you for what you all have done and will do in the future for these cats.
❤ Loved seeing the guest speakers. What an awesome venture. Huge accomplishment. Congratulations!
You finally made it! Congratulations from Germany and best wishes for you labour of love ❤🐱🐈🐈⬛🐾
"I don't want to live in a world where pet ownership is a privilege for the few." Amen. When you say, "Don't get a pet if you can't afford one," you're saying "Poor people don't get to have pets." And pets are so wonderful, so healing and uplifting and joyful, it should be for everyone.
Bob Barker is smiling down on you ❤
Delighted to support New York cat lovers from Ireland
Much love to you all & the cats. Beautiful work!🙏💕
What a wonderful project. I watched your videos for a while and this project was a long time coming. You must be so proud.
Amazing! Great work, good luck!
This video literary made me cry for joy. Flatbushcats are amazing. Thank you! I'll start to support you guys once I settled with my new job 🙏🏼💫💝❤️🐾
This is amazing. Will, you have built an incredible community.❤
The video has me in tears. Cats are suffering and you are right. - Spay and Neuter is ESSENTIAL.
Wonderful work.❤🇬🇧
I've been following your mission for years. I'm so happy this has been the outcome of I'm sure hundreds of successful TNR missions. I participate in my local townships TNR program and even as a smaller town funding isn't allotted to it properly from the town council. I couldn't even imagine how proud and happy you are to have to come to fruition.
This is exactly how it is. I want another cat or two and maybe more but I am still paying off the debt from my last bff of 13years. She passed during Covid lock down. Her not being here, I still feel guilt because I wish I had been able to get care for her sooner and maybe she would still be here? Since I will be paying for everything from her illness to her euthanasia and ashes, for the rest of my life, I am afraid to get another pet. If I can't help or have another animal I really don't feel I have much to live for. My whole family has always been advocates for all animals. My Aunt even had a sanctuary in North Carolina. I wish for Flatbush to spred to everywhere in our country. A society that doesn't care for their ill or animals will never be a sane and whole society.
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God Bless you so much ! everyone involved ! Most people do not realize the core issues , over population is due to people not getting pets fixed! Not affording especially mama dogs and mama cats! Exactly ! They cannot rescue or foster all ! When the reproductive rate is a thousand fold ! We also need to get breeding mandated ! And hold abusers accountable , jail , fined and rehab ! Thank you GodBless you ♥️🙏🏾♥️♥️♥️
I want Flatbush cats in NY to a shining example to other cities
Yeah me to, that is so adoreable, Thank you Flatbush for all you do for all the cats, God bless you👍👍👍👍🥰🥰🥰🥰🐾🐾🐾🐾
My hope is that groups across the country can use this as a model
Grazie.
Love what you are doing. I just wish there were more veterinarians who would do pro-bono work, which would go a long way to solving over population and people having to kill their pet because they can't afford veterinary care.
Vets aren’t the problem. A LOT of vets take on hardship cases, but they can’t take on even a fraction of the cases that exist. It’s not just their time and effort that they spend, but clinic hours, paying techs (legally cannot allow employees to volunteer for unpaid work), paying for supplies out of pocket… add onto that the fact that vet school is just as expensive as med school, with much lower projected salary, and the fact that they often see animals at their sickest and worst, and it’s no wonder veterinarians have one of the highest rates of suicide. It is a hard job, and the problem isn’t that they don’t care, but that the issue is overwhelming. This shelter will be funded by grants and public donations (including the vets’ salaries, I’m sure, because they deserve to be paid for their hard work!), and that will hopefully serve as a model for other nonprofits around the country for tackling spay/neuter.
@@rudebega1494 this! I was headed to vet school but ultimately gave up that plan because I couldn't live with the inevitable debt. And maybe I just was lucky to work in a university veterinary clinic environment, but I don't know a single vet who _didn't_ volunteer their time in some way - be it wildlife or shelter care or spay/neuter services - in spite of that debt.
What an incredible achievement! It shows how much good people can do when they work together on a common goal. Thank you so much, FlatbushCats!
Great job! You did it! Thank you.
Setting up a monthly donation now! ❤
In your 17 Aug YT video.intro at 0:33 I see a Tabby missing it's RH rear foot/paw just above it's ankle. I see that cat again in your 31 Aug intro video at 0:37.
After 5 months of talking to my 'Billy Joe' whom was a member of a neighborhood colony whom was missing his LH rear foot/paw above his ankle I convinced him he needed to move in with me in 2017. Month's later Joe's Vet and I decided to completely remove that LH leg at hip joint because the stump would never heal properly where only skin and scab covered the leg bone. Joe get's along well without that leg. I sure feel sad for that Tabby in your video. I wish you could help that Tabby medically as well as finding it a home.
Your newly open Clinic looks wonderful, Congratulations and keep up the good work.
It shocks me how many people just walk past these cats... especially the injured and sick ones. Everything in my being wants to help them and I would. I know it can be overwhelming, but if everyone did a little bit, there wouldn't BE this problem. I am so glad that I don't have a hardened heart to the point where I would walk past a sick/injured animal.
Congratulations! You are doing the right thing for so many reasons. Thank you.
I hope this necessary clinic shows other cities how it can be done. Bless you, and all who sail on you.
seeing the blind kitty walk the streets all alone, that was so awful.
Well done Flatbush Org! 👏🏼 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼⭐️💫⭐️💫⭐️💫 💕
Thank you so much for your hard work, for affordable vet clinic. I paid $930 for 2 cats to fix them. In my neighborhood in Brooklyn we have hundreds of cats on the street and multiplying.
That's a lot of money. Those vets are very greedy. They do not want to help animals. They are only interested in making money.
Sweet Jesus...😮😮no wonder people can't afford vets in America!
I thought England was expensive! But that's ridiculous!!!
I really have tears in my eyes watching this and am so proud of Flatbush Cats and Rosie Perez and all the wonderful creators of this institution. I post on my Facebook page often about your progress, hoping some of the people who may see my posts are inspired to create their own non-profit cat/dog spay/neuter facility so people can stop watching the tube and going crazy about not having enough money and begin to love a real-life furry friend, and the furry wonders will not be dying in the streets. How can people not see the wisdom in making these types of clinics a ubiquitous universal system in every city?
Ahhhhhmazing work my friend! God bless you!!!!!!❤️❤️❤️
Sharing kindness, love, care - little deposits at a time from the "high" and "lowly" - help make this world a brighter, more compassionate place to live in.
Danke!
Im from Germany but if I’m ever in New York again I will visit you! Already donated!
Greatest Gift EVER❣
THANK YOU!!!
😻You've brought Hope, Light & Love for my BIRTHDAY 🎉
Congratulations on the opening, this is a dream come true!
Everyone deserves help. Thank you for you kindness. And I'll keep donating
Awwh, I saw Teddy in there!
Little support
I've been following you guys since 2018 and I'm so, so proud of how far you've come as a company. You all deserve everything good that comes your way. Keep going!
Same here👍
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Beautiful. Love their philosophy and kindness. We need spay neuter program for humans as well.
500,000 cats but 8 million people. Each cat should have a home.
Solid effort guys, well done! Amazing to see what you have become ❤
So happy to see this project continue and thrive. There's so many other benefits to spay / neuter that helps families, too. Hormones won't drive them to run and find other scents. There's not confusing times of heat that dominate behavior and actually drive people to be annoyed.
Some people with that empathic thought of a cat wanting to have offspring is misled. In the wild around a quarter of all kittens surviving to mate again. And unlike humans they're having dozens or scores of kittens at least. It's not the same mentality. And these animals in our communities deserve guardians that can adapt that need of quality life over quantity survival.
Thank you for this vet I hope it's design and purpose spread through all of New York and across the country. I will always aid how I can either with monetary or an oath to drive and help my neighbors do the same and keep their beloved charges for all their days.
Ahhh! I love Rosie Perez and Jackson Galaxy ❤️ I'm so glad they worked with you guys 😊
Blessings and success to Flatbush. You are what every community needs to save lives of beautiful animals that don't deserve to suffer. I sincerely hope that your mission is a seed that starts to scatter across our country to help all these animals have better lives and find forever homes. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
How proud can you be, of a group of total strangers?!
0:38 Mirepoix sighting!
People hate other humans. Animal give unconditional love. Cats and dogs don't deserve to be on the street