The largest discount spay and neuter clinic in Southeastern North Carolina was destroyed by four feet of floodwaters in Brunswick County Monday.
Fix-A-Friend is a non-profit clinic sponsored Adopt An Angel. They averaged 100 surgeries a day in its Winnabow location before Monday’s unnamed tropical system brought more than a foot of rain to Brunswick County. The clinic has provided more than 120,000 surgeries on dogs and cats since its founding in 2013. In addition to helping individual petowners, Fix-A-Friend provides low cost spay and neuter services to 40 pet rescues.
Volunteers evacuated 80 cats and 20 dogs using boats Monday when pet owners couldn’t navigate flooded roadways to retrieve their animals, the group said in a social media post. While they do have insurance, including flood insurance, most of the equipment is not covered. Volunteers also used bags of animal food as makeshift sandbags, and their entire supply is now ruined.
The group lost a washer and dryer, refrigerators, two $20,000 autoclaves, six anesthesia machines and other supplies in the flood.
“The insurance will help build it back to the way it was,” the post said. “However, we have had two 500-year floods in six years so putting it back the way it was is not the answer.”
The group hopes to join forces with Adopt An Angel and build a larger, higher facility with an adoption center on the two acres they already own in Winnabow.
“We are talking with our contractor who is meeting with architects to raise the entire building three to four feet,” the post said.
Fix a Friend is setting up a GoFundMe, donations can also be made via adoptanangel.net , or mailed to Adopt an Angel, P.O. Box 15095, Wilmington, N.C. 28408.
