Altered Tails
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Thousands of dogs and cats enter community shelters annually and many are euthanized. Spay and Neuter reduces unwanted births and the number of strays and free-roaming cats, effectively lowering shelter intake and euthanasia. At the same time, many pets owners do not have access to affordable spay/neuter services so the availability of low-cost, high-quality services is critical to serving the needs of pet owning individuals.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Spay and Neuter
Altered Tails provides various promotions discounting the cost of surgery and other services in order to make spay and neuter accessible for low income pet owners.
TNR
Altered Tails works closely with multiple community cat and feral cat programs/agencies in Arizona, including the Animal Defense League of Arizona to provide surgeries for free-roaming cats.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of animals spayed and neutered
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Spay and Neuter
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Average number of animals spayed and neutered per day
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Spay and Neuter
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Average cost per spay/neuter surgery
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Spay and Neuter
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Number of dogs and cats sterilized since 1999
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Spay and Neuter
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Our goal is to to make it possible for all pet owners to receive high-quality, low cost spay or neuter services for their pet. Additionally, through the high number of surgeries performed by our clinics annually, we hope to reduce the intake of homeless pets into shelters in the communities we serve. Since 2008, Altered Tails has sterilized more than 100,000 dogs and cats.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Altered Tails provides high-quality spay and neuter services at a low cost. At the same time, the organization maximizes the number of dogs and cats it can spay on an annual basis, exceeding 20,000 annually, on average.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Altered Tails is a Humane-Alliance certified organization, which means its clinics are modeled to complete a high volume of surgeries safely and at a low price. As a non-profit organization, Altered Tails is also able to secure grants and contributions to subsidize a portion of the surgeries and offer them at a low promotional cost or for free, thus making spay/neuter possible for individuals who could not otherwise afford it.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Altered Tails has sterilized more than 100,000 dogs and cats since inception. Our goal is to continue to increase capacity through the existing clinics and addition of new clinics.
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Operations
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Altered Tails
Board of directorsas of 02/22/2022
Mr. Dick Barnhart
No Affiliation
Term: 2009 -
Mrs. Melissa Williams
Crandall Catherine
Dick Barnhart
Jeff Hollahan
Melissa Williams
Dan Williams