Spay and Stay is a non-profit organization dedicated to working with compassionate individuals and local governments to humanely control the growth of the feral cat population in Lake County, Illinois.
Spay and stay is committed to implementing long-term solutions to significantly reduce the population of unaltered, free-roaming and abandoned domestic cats in our area.
Spay and Stay was started in 2002 by two compassionate women who were concerned about the number of stray and feral cats they were seeing in and around their communities and decided to do something to help. They found funding to start the first and only TNR group in Lake County, IL. Approximately 29,000 cats have been sterilized and vaccinated through Spay and Stay since 2002.
Spay and Stay is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
Spay and Stay’s goal is to connect and collaborate with compassionate individuals in Lake County, Illinois to humanely control the population of feral and stray cats.
If you are outside of Lake County IL, please call or email a resource in your county rather than Spay and Stay - we have a list here: TNR resources
We provide veterinary resources and coaching for caretakers to trap, neuter, and return (TNR) cats in their area. Spay and Stay teaches trapping techniques and colony care to reduce the number of homeless kittens born and improve the lives of adult cats through sterilization and vaccination.
