Our Ready to Go Home Program was developed in partnership with Los Angeles Animal Services (LAAS) and the Los Angeles County Animal Care Foundation to provide immediate sterilization for adoptable and newly adopted pets. With limited budgets and limited access to qualified HQHVSN veterinarians, shelters often face significant backlogs for spay and neuter surgeries. As a result, adopted animals can wait days to weeks for sterilization. During that time, they occupy valuable kennel space, strain shelter resources, and create delays that discourage potential adopters.

Our program fast-tracks shelter pets through our hospitals for surgery, removing sterilization as a bottleneck. This allows animals to move more quickly into homes, frees up kennel space, and directly reduces euthanasia risk by accelerating overall shelter flow.

Through Community Animal Treatment Center, a Caravita-powered HQHVSN hospital in Burbank, we are sterilizing more than 75 LAAS shelter animals each month. We provide surgeries both pre-adoption and post-adoption to ensure pets are truly “home-ready,” eliminating unnecessary wait times between adoption and surgery.

In the Antelope Valley, the Los Angeles County Animal Care Foundation and Caravita Foundation have partnered to provide immediate free spay and neuter surgeries for all dogs adopted from the Lancaster Animal Care Center. Through the Littlerock Pet Clinic,  Caravita-powered HQHVSN hospital, we are sterilizing hundreds of adopted Lancster dogs at no cost to the adopter.

By removing both financial and logistical barriers to sterilization, this initiative not only improves adoption outcomes, but impacts shelter outcomes as a whole as we work towards eliminating all unnecessary shelter euthanasia in Los Angeles City and County.