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# Neutering grant helps cats and dogs at two Virginia shelters
- URL: https://www.catstandard.co.uk/virginia-shelters-neutering-grant-cats-dogs/
- Published: 2026-10-18T06:06:56.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-18T21:50:44.000Z
- Description: A grant supporting hundreds of neutering surgeries forms part of a practical effort to help shelter cats and dogs find homes.
- Author: Kieran Simpson
- Tags: The Cat Uplift, #news

Hundreds of cats and dogs have benefited from funded neutering at two Virginia shelters, according to a Best Friends Animal Society report published on 9 October.

A $35,000 grant to the William A. Harrison Jr. Foundation supported work with Henrico County Animal Shelter and Petersburg Animal Care & Control. The foundation also helps promote adoptable animals, runs adoption events and supplies food for a pet pantry.

Best Friends reports that both shelters maintained a save rate of at least 90% over the past year. That figure includes animals leaving alive and those still in care awaiting an outcome; it is not an adoption rate.

Adoptions at Henrico nearly doubled over the past 12 months, the foundation reports. These are shelter-wide results, rather than separate figures for cats. Practical help with the bill, the food cupboard and finding a home: fairly unglamorous work with a rather good result.

Source: [Alison Cocchiara’s report for Best Friends Animal Society](https://bestfriends.org/stories/features/spayneuter-helps-2-virginia-shelters-reach-no-kill?ref=catstandard.co.uk), published 9 October 2026; checked 18 October.