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Emancipet Unveils 2025 Impact Report

The low-cost veterinary service conducted 275,000 clinic visits and 59,000 spay/neuter operations last year.

A dog in Emancipet care.
A dog in Emancipet care. (Courtesy of Emancipet)

Affordable veterinary care provider Emancipet released its 2025 Regional Impact Report this week. It served 275,000 pets through clinic visits and conducted 59,000 spay/neuter operations.

Emancipet operates in Central Texas, Philadelphia, and Houston. According to the report, its staff completed 196,000 healthy pet service visits, placed 29,500 microchips, and administered 315,000 vaccines across those locations.

Additionally, Emancipet completed 5,400 heartworm visits (evaluations and treatments), as well as 3,020 dental exams and procedures and 1,040 soft-tissue surgery visits.

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In 2025, Emancipet relaunched its Central Texas Regional Low Cost Mobile Spay/Neuter Clinic, which offers low-cost, appointment-based spay-neuter surgeries in Burnet, Guadalupe, Williamson, Hays, Bastrop, and Caldwell counties.

Emancipet reports that complication rates remained below its 0.3% goal at just 0.24%, "even with roughly 5,000 more surgeries performed by our veterinarians than the prior year, with several new doctors receiving high-volume surgery training during this time."

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The nonprofit's Central Texas arm saw the bulk of the total number of visits with 151,000, and 16,800 pet families took advantage of the mobile free and regional services. Philadelphia pet owners visited Emancipet 49,000 times and Houston pet owners visited 74,000 times.

According to the report, "In 2025, Emancipet provided nearly $600,000 in direct support to clients to make quality veterinary care more affordable for them."

The Rachael Ray Foundation is Emancipet's largest contributor providing direct assistance to pet owners so that they don't have to postpone necessary veterinary care due to financial reasons. Other sponsors include the Andrew Delaney Foundation, Katherine St. Cyr, Mark Foundation, and more.

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