is a volunteer-based, nonprofit, humane organization started specifically to establish high-volume, low-cost spay/neuter and adoption programs with the mission of solving the pet overpopulation crisis in the city.

SpayMart partners with area shelters & local humane groups to deliver proactive, results-oriented programs to help our shelters achieve the collective goal of zero-euthanasia of healthy, adoptable animals.

Utilizing existing veterinary clinics, SpayMart has been operating feral cat programs for over ten years to help control reproduction in feral cat colonies.

The feral cat program has been funded entirely by donations and supplemented by proceeds from the adoption of kittens.

SpayMart operates a sanctuary facility, unfortunately we are unable to take in any more cats. Hurricane Katrina rescues and a hoarding case of 100 cats have swollen us to capacity.

We have a dream for New Orleans …

SpayMart is a humane society that has a dream – that we will wake up in a city no longer filled with hundreds of thousands of neglected and starving animals roaming the streets. We dream that dogs and cats will be sterilized by responsible owners or caregivers and that pets will not be euthanized because of a lack of good homes.

When the winters are warm or spring arrives, free roaming cats may breed as often as four times a year (instead of the usual two), adding to the overpopulation misery and costing our city almost a million dollars annually to kill these innocent animals.

SpayMart sterilizes thousands of animals each year through a low cost spay/neuter program that we offer to the public. Our dream can become a reality if every pet owner spayed or neutered his pet and took responsibility for sterilizing the strays in his neighborhood. It is cheaper and much more humane to sterilize young breeding animals than to kill their offspring.

Call our Cat Helpline at 504-838-9167 for help with sterilization and together we can see our dream of a humane city become reality.