CINCINNATI -- United Coalition For Animals, a local spay/neuter clinic, will be able provide hundreds of free surgeries and vaccinations to pit bulls thanks to a $30,000 grant from the Petco Foundation, UCAN announced Monday.
UCAN’s Save the Pitbulls program allows owners of pit bulls, a class of dogs that has recently faced bans in some areas, to have their pets sterilized and given a rabies vaccine at no charge.
“The great majority of dogs in our Hamilton County shelter and the county shelters in our service areas are pit bulls and/or pit bull mixes, and it is very difficult to find good adoptive homes for them because of unfair stereotypes about the breed,” said UCAN executive director Melanie Corwin in a news release.
Corwin said the Petco Foundation grant would allow UCAN to treat 350 dogs at no cost to their owners.
