The Sioux Empire TNR Coalition’s Alter Assist Program helps individuals and companies who need assistance with spaying and neutering cats. This includes those who have a large number of farm or working cats, community caregivers of free-roaming cats, and low-income individuals who cannot afford to fix their pets.

How it Works

  1. Contact us first through our Request for Help form. A volunteer will get back to you within a few days. After assessing your situation, they will refer you to the Alter Assist Scheduling Form. Please note we are a 100% volunteer organization and we will respond as quickly as we can but it may take some time based on our available volunteers and current sterilization backlog.
  2. We have two locations for spay/neuter. We use Beresford Veterinary Clinic every Thursday and the Sioux Falls Area Humane Society once a month (date for each month TBD).
  3. Complete the form for the location you are using and pay the fee for each cat. Neuters are $75 and spays are $100. The surgery includes rabies vaccines and microchips.
  4. Please do not trap cats without an appointment set up for spay/neuter.
  5. You will drop the cats off on the scheduled date with our volunteer who will transport them to the vet. They will give you a pick-up time at the time as drop off as this will depend on the number of cats scheduled for the day.
  6. CATS MUST BE IN INDIVIDUAL HARD-SIDED CARRIERS. If you do not have enough carriers, let us know and we can assist you. 
  7. If you are dropping off community (or “feral”) cats, they can remain in the trap rather than in a carrier.
  8. Cats must not be fed before 5 pm the day prior to the surgery.

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