Although the county's
animal control office has stopped helping pet owners who can't afford to have their pets neutered, it still offers aid for neutering in other circumstances.The
office still will financially assist pet owners who
want to sterilize an
animal which has just had a litter, said
animal control director Frankie Thorp.If a pet owner brings those puppies or kittens to the shelter in Astatula,
animal control will chip in toward the cost of spaying or neutering the offspring's parent, Thorp said.