Special thanks to the Community Foundation of Sarasota County, Gulf Coast Community Foundation, Patterson Foundation,
and the Manatee Community Foundation.

By Pine View School's Students Organized for Animal Rights (S.O.A.R.) Club.

Each month we conduct a free-roaming/feral cat clinic under the plan called TNR (Trap - Neuter - Return) in an effort to control the exploding population of feral cat colonies throughout Sarasota County and surrounding counties. 

The estimated number of free-roaming cats in Sarasota County alone is between 35,000 and 50,000. The program has been in existence since 2006. It is a community service offered free to the public to sterilize cats from Sarasota, Manatee, Desoto, & Charlotte Counties, the majority of cats coming from colonies in Sarasota neighborhoods.

SDA hires a professional veterinarian and the use of the clinic for one day per month with the veterinarian performing the surgeries, one vet-tech assistant, and SDA's trained volunteer staff.

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Two weeks ago I received a telephone call from Cirese Terry who had visited a goat dairy farm near Sarasota, Florida and had seen a pitiful little goat out in the rain (goats hate rain) and knealing on her front legs.

Cirese was disturbed at the sight of this little female creatures and coordinated with me to take the goat to a veterinarian to get a diagnosis and possible treatment for her. Arrangements were made for a vet clinic appointment via SDA & our vet immediately said "This goat has a birth defect and there is nothing I can do for her. Her condition is untreatable and she will remain walking on her front elbows the rest of her life." He did not speculate as to what her life expectancy would be.

Wayne Pacelle, CEO of Humane Society of US, was in Sarasota for a book signing.

Wayne Pacelle's new book, The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them, examines our contradictory attitudes towards animals and points to a better way forward. CEO and president of the nation's largest animal protection organization, Pacelle has helped to bring animal protection from the margins to the mainstream during his quarter century of work in the field, which includes 17 years at HSUS.

"The Bond" has appeared on many best-seller lists, including The Washington Post, The New York Times and Los Angeles Times.