Happy National Spay/Neuter Awareness Month! As an organization with the phrase “Spay and Neuter” in our name, we’re already pretty aware of it, but maybe you’re not. Maybe you have questions about what the surgeries are, how they work, and what it means for your pet. So how about we make you aware :) The Basics A neuter is the...Read More
Winter brings on more than just cold weather. It brings with it the financial pressures of the holiday season, higher gas bills to warm your home, property taxes, and waving to you from just offstage is the hope of (or stress of) the approaching tax season. Tis’ the season for all those things. The winter months are stressful. The holidays...Read More
I grew up with dogs. Sort of. I didn’t know what to do with a dog. My family didn’t know what to do, either. We never had dogs for very long. We were a high-strung, neat freak sort of family (except for dad), so we had a lot of rules: no dog hair on things, no dogs on furniture, dogs...Read More
Pet Resource Center of Kansas City is the only targeted spay/neuter program in the greater Kansas City area. What does that mean and why does it matter? Back when we were revamping our outreach program a couple of years ago we started looking at some data. And it turns out that about 80% of animal control calls come from 12...Read More
When I started working in animal welfare, one of the things I was the most surprised about was the amount of misunderstanding and misinformation about what pet microchips are, how they work, and how they aren’t a long con on the part of the One-World Conspiracy to track our movements by using our pets against us. Some of the confusion...Read More
When we talk about animal rescue, what do we mean? Usually we talk about rescue organizations, those extremely passionate and hardworking people who spend every day (often literally seven days a week) out doing everything they can to help animals find their forever home. Because they’re usually nonprofit organizations, they have a person handling advertising, even if they only advertise...Read More
Cats, right? Tell me about it. I’ve lived with cats for the better part of a decade now, after growing up with dogs. One of the things it took me (far) too long to come to terms with was scratching. Not them scratching me, of course (though that did happen), but my furniture. I was not/am not the wealthiest person...Read More
It’s only recently that I’ve started doing social media and public relations for this organization. Before that I was a part of the Families Better Together outreach team, and before that I worked retail. Retail is such a different beast in terms of how things are emphasized and presented to the public. You want to make the sale, you want...Read More
Among the things we encounter all too regularly in our outreach program are folks who are moving because they’ve run afoul of their apartment complex’s pet rules, or who need to move to a new place but can’t, again because of restrictive rules on pets. There’s an argument to be made for apartments having pet rules and restrictions; wear and...Read More
Hello! Welcome to Pet Resource Center of Kansas City! We’re a low-cost spay and neuter clinic located in Kansas City; our name indicates as much, so maybe you figured that out already. We focus on providing resources, wellness services, and education for all pet owners, but especially those in underserved communities. Looking over data from the past decade or so,...Read More
