PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Justin De Sola, CEO of Astoria Animal Society, on Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Services
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Justin De Sola, CEO of Astoria Animal Society, testified about their low-cost spay/neuter services and the need for additional funding to expand their operations. He emphasized the high demand for these services, particularly from rescue organizations, and the potential to help more animals with increased support.
- The clinic currently performs about 200 spay/neuter surgeries per month, only on Wednesdays
- With extra funding, they could offer surgeries on more days and increase the number of procedures
- The clinic also provides free vaccinations (distemper, rabies, FVRCP) for cats and dogs
Justin De Sola
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Thank you.
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My name is Justin.
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I'm the CEO of Astoria Animal Society and Astoria Queens.
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My not for profit animal clinic helps My doctor Prophet Animal Clinic does low cost Spigenuter.
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I roughly do about 200 a month, and we only do surgeries on Wednesdays.
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With the extra funding, I do believe I can help more days, more surgeries.
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We do see a lot of rescues coming in, and it's very hard to book everybody with no funding.
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I come up with as much as possible out of my own pocket to help.
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We're understaffed It's a big issue with the population.
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We have a lot of private and non private clients that comes in, but the majority is a lot of rescues.
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And if we can get funding and help, we can actually save a lot of more animals, especially we do free distemper rabies and FRRCP for the cats and field and canines.
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And that's pretty much it.