The ASPCA Opens Animal Support Center in Collaboration with Oktibbeha County Humane Society
In collaboration with Oktibbeha County Humane Society (OCHS), the ASPCA® today announces the opening of the OCHS Animal Support Center by the ASPCA, a first-of-its-kind facility in Mississippi that will bring animal sheltering and veterinary care services to thousands of vulnerable animals in the state each year.
The Animal Support Center’s high-quality, high-volume spay/neuter and relocation efforts will impact thousands of animals in the state by reducing the number of unwanted litters within the community, decreasing animals’ length of stay at shelters in the region and improving access to low-cost spay and neuter procedures for pet owners.
“The ASPCA is incredibly proud to have partnered with OCHS over the past eight years with a shared goal of creating a better future for animals across the region, and this new center is a monumental step forward in creating that better future for vulnerable animals.”
Over the last eight years, the ASPCA and OCHS have worked together to improve the lives of shelter animals in the Starkville, Mississippi, area and surrounding communities. OCHS is a partner shelter in the ASPCA Animal Relocation Program, an initiative that works with overcrowded shelters in under-resourced areas of the country to relocate their animals to other shelters where those animals have greater chances of being adopted into loving homes.