Quality food, cat litter, bedding, bowls, enrichment items like toys and scratches, and other supplies are critical to a pet's well being and happiness. These items are available at local pet supply stores.

Sunshine's Friends shops at these places:

• Chewy.com - place your first order and we receive  referral donation from Chewy
• PetSmart, Ellicott City, MD and Columbia, MD
• Arundel Mills Mall, Hanover, MD
• Whole Pet Central
• Petco
• Pet Supplies Plus

We strongly believe in spaying or neutering pets to prevent overpopulation and vaccinating them to prevent diseases. These programs are aimed at providing assistance and funding to enable people to help the animals in their lives.

• Trap/Neuter/Return (TNR) — we provide TNR education, loaner traps, and trapping help for large community cat projects and special situations. Cats are spayed/neutered, vaccinated, and then returned to their original location where they will be fed and monitored under the watchful eye of a caregiver.
• Spay/Neuter — we offer low-cost/ no-cost spray/neuter options through partnerships with local vets to cat and dog owners who are unable to afford the surgery and required vaccines.
• Resource & Referral — for people who need help but who are outside our service area, we provide counseling and referrals to nearby animal welfare organizations, vets, and other public and private resources.

There are several veterinary practices in the area that offer low-cost spay/neuter services. They are able to do so because they focus on spaying, neutering, and vaccinating a high volume of pets and feral cats. The vets are high quality, but they do not offer the range of pet wellness or specialty services that their full-service vet counterparts do.

Sunshine's Friends uses the following vets for low-cost, high-volume spay/neuter:

• Spay Now Animal Surgery Clinic - Laurel, MD
• Metro Ferals - Sykesville, MD
• Spay Spa & Neuter Nook - Davidsonville, MD