CANTON — The River Valley Animal Advocates recently received a $10,000 grant from the Belvedere Animal Welfare Fund of the Maine Community Foundation to be used to purchase medical and surgical equipment to be used in a mobile, self-contained, spay/neuter trailer for cats to be used in Oxford County.

“This grant will help many local animals and their owners to have access to economical veterinary care in the River Valley area,” said Becky McDonald, president of RVAA. The trailer will have a fully equipped surgical unit for veterinarian Don McLean to do spay/neuter clinics for local cats. It will be a self-contained, solar-powered and fully mobile (towed with a truck) trailer that can be used at any location. That is especially important for the trap-neuter-release program for feral cats and on site at farms.

The River Valley Animal Advocates was founded in October 2009. Their mission is to promote and support healthy, loving and positive connections and interactions between humans and animals for the physical, emotional and spiritual betterment of them all.

For more information, call 357-2666.