Back to surgery

Dear friend,

The year has started the way most weeks do here: full surgery days, a steady mix of spay and neuter, community cats moving through the schedule, and the occasional urgent major surgery.

There is no winter slowdown. Demand for affordable surgery stays high year-round.

With 2025 behind us, we can look at what we've accomplished.

Last year, our team completed more than 6,900 spay and neuter surgeries. That work included almost 4,200 community cats, 2,423 supported through The Phyllip Fund.

We also performed 350 non-routine procedures, including mass removals, enucleations, wound repairs, and limb amputations.

One of those cases was Pauli, a community cat trapped for TNR who arrived with a non-functional eye that needed to be removed. We were able to fit his enucleation into a day that was already full.

The surgery went smoothly. Pauli recovered with his caretaker, and the follow-up was the kind we’re glad to hear - he was doing well and described as “really sweet.”

Nothing dramatic. Just surgery done when it was needed.

Days like these rely on a fully staffed team working together. We need the surgeon, veterinary technicians to manage anesthesia, and non-clinical staff to keep the rest of the clinic running. This is the operational work that makes timely surgery possible, day after day.

Add One Day is our ongoing effort to build the staffing and systems that let us say yes when cases like Pauli’s come through.

Thank you for being part of this work. Happy New Year.

Jean Goh, DVM
Medical Director
Animal Fix Clinic