Borrowing & Returning Traps and Purchasing Certificates

How to Get Traps and Spay/Neuter Certificates

Anyone wanting to borrow or return traps or purchase subsidized spay/neuter certificates must attend a short orientation/training session at the Charlottesville-Albemarle SPCA on one of the scheduled dates listed below. Typically, training sessions are held in the downstairs training room, but the location can change depending on other activities going on at the CASPCA. Notice of where in the building the training will take place will be posted on the front and side doors the day of the training session.

The training session will last approximately 45 minutes to an hour. Please show up on time so the session can begin promptly as scheduled.

If you have already attended a training session with us, you can skip the training segment and simply borrow or return your traps or purchase certificates on these dates.

Please read our humane trapping guidelines.

Voices for Animals volunteers

Upcoming Trap Loan/Return & Training Dates

Tue., 8/3, 5:30 p.m.
Sat., 8/21, 10 a.m.
Tue., 9/7, 5:30 p.m.
Sat., 9/18, 10 a.m.

Trap Loan/Return Policies

To borrow traps or purchase certificates, you must be on time for the training presentation.

There is a $50 deposit per trap. You may leave a check for the deposit, which we will return to you (uncashed) when you return the traps.

Traps may not be loaned to third parties or used for any purpose other than to humanely trap feral unowned cats for sterilization and vaccinations.

To return traps, you must bring them to one of our regularly scheduled trap loan/return and training dates (you don't need to attend the training portion).

Please note that you must return traps to and purchase certificates from Voices for Animals' volunteers (not the CASPCA). Please don't return traps to CASPCA staff.

Note about wildlife: If you accidentally trap a wild animal, you must release the animal in the same location that he/she was trapped. Many wild animals can't survive relocation. Please respect our wildlife and their right to live. For more information, please read our humane trapping guidelines.

We have a limited number of traps, so please return all borrowed traps as soon as possible. If you must take a break in trapping, please return traps at the earliest possible date so others may use them, and you can make arrangements to borrow them again at a later date.