Texas Spay and Neuter Pilot Program funding will support surgeries in nine South Texas counties over two years.<\/p>\n
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 A Coastal Bend animal welfare nonprofit has been awarded $500,000 in state funding to expand spay-and-neuter services across South Texas.<\/p>\n
People Assisting Animal Control (PAAC) received the funding through the Texas Spay and Neuter Pilot Program, part of a $13 million initiative approved by the Texas Legislature to support spay and neuter programs statewide.<\/p>\n
PAAC will receive the $500,000 over the next two years.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The funding will be used exclusively for spay and neuter surgeries in nine counties near the Coastal Bend, where access to affordable animal care remains limited.<\/p>\n
PAAC President Cheryl Martinez said the organization plans to focus on underserved communities to ensure the funds have the greatest impact.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe focus on the areas with the greatest need,\u201d Martinez said. \u201cThat\u2019s how we provide access to care and make the best use of state funding.\u201d<\/p>\n
The state funds can only be used for spay and neuter services.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Martinez added that private donations will help cover additional needs such as flea medication and other basic animal care services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Spay and Neuter Pilot Program funding will support surgeries in nine South Texas counties over two years.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-169899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}