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Newsletter #128 June 2025

Lucky Star Spay Neuter Program News
A Publication of the Lucky Star Spay Neuter Program
12 Birch Lane Morristown, NJ 07960 Email: luckystarprogram@att.net
Volume 128 June 2025
Our Mission: To gather, recognize and celebrate the continuing annual commitment of each of our member veterinarians to provide some level of absolutely free spay neuter services to the needy animals of their choice, along with any other free services they choose to provide.
BIG THANKS TO OUR LUCKY STARS!
We are proud to present this roster of Lucky Star Veterinarians. Together these profess-ionals have generously pledged 394 absolutely free spay neuter surgeries & other free services for needy animals of their choice in 2025, for which they have our utmost admiration & thanks:

Dr. Erno Hollo & Dr. Melissa Rotella, Basking Ridge Animal Hospital

Dr. Danci Mock, West Caldwell Animal Hospital

Dr. Maritza Perez, West Orange Animal Hospital

Dr. P. Picone, Audubon Veterinary Associates

Dr. Sandra Stalder-Frey, Alpha Veterinary Care

Dr. Carolyn Wooley, MCSNIP, Pennington

Dr. David Croman, Medical Director, People for Animals,Inc., (PFA)Hillside, Robbinsville & Millville

ENCINITAS ROCKS!!

This CA town officially proclaimed Feb 2025 S/N awareness month & thanked those who S/N’d thou-sands of animals there making the town a better place for animals & the people who care about them. Would be GREAT if ALL towns gave S/N this recognition & were able to provide/access the resources S/N deserves. For a copy of the proclamation, please email Lucky Star.(A copy will be included with our e-distribution of this June 2025 newsletters.

TEMPORARY “FIX” HAS LIMITED “OK”
“…ACC&D has created a page:https://www.acc-d.org/egalitte re latest re Egalitte, a new, temp-orary immunocontraceptive for male & female dogs that has been developed & approved 4 use in Chile.”. Pls scroll entire pg for all info re their thoughts on its limitations, approval prospects elsewhere, etc. as of the date on the web pg.

ROWAN UNIV’s CLINIC SOON TO ROLL!
(We thank Maureen Koplow’s “Shelter & Rescue Digest” for this news. Excerpts selected here are focused on S/N & Rowan’s new mobile veterinary clinic. For more: https://insightintoacademia.com/rowan-university-veterinary/ )
“For some NJ residents, pet care is coming closer to home. With its new 40-ft mobile veterinary unit, Rowan’s Shreiber School of Veterinary Medicine (SSVM) will visit underserved neighborhoods & pet owners w/mobility issues, providing services ranging from free pet food & vaccinations to surgery… not only to “help pet owners who cannot afford traditional veterinary care but will also give Shreiber students essential hands-on experience. https://svm.rowan.edu/
The mobile … unit is a collaboration between SSVM & Merck Animal Health, funded by a $500,000 gift from Merck. Equipped w/ exam space, recovery cages, & a surgical suite, the
unit will supplement the small animal teaching hospital … scheduled to open in the fall.Students working w/the mobile unit will collaborate w/ local shelters to help S/N animals, making them adoption ready. …. the school will not welcome its first … 70 students til fall 2025, …with the mobile unit’s rollout planned for Nov.2025….”

S/N AWARENESS GREETING CARDS
Per Bissell Pet Foundation (BPF):"Send a message …w/… greeting cards featuring images from BPF’s Fix the Future® S/N clinics.… the nation's fastest growing free S/N clinics”.…Each pack of 10 assorted cards features photos from Fix the Future® clinics: https://shop.bissellpetfoundation.org/collections/all-merch/products/sponsor-a-spay-greeting-cards

“FELINE FIX BY FIVE MONTHS”

https://www.unitedspayalliance.org/feline-fix-by-five/
See why it’s important, who has endorsed it, who offers it & how veterinarians can sign up/on +video from a veterin-arian & a 5 month old kitten!

NEXT ISSUE: AUGUST 1ST 2025
June 2025 Lucky Star Spay Neuter Program News Vol 128.pdf