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VETERINARY EMERGENCY AND CRITICAL CARE FOUNDATION VECCF holds spay/neuter clinics at three Native American sites

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September 2008 - The Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Foundation (VECCF) sponsored free Spay/Neuter Clinics for two Indian Reservations in the Phoenix area for three days prior to the International Veterinary Emergency and Critical Society Meeting in September. The clinics were held on September 14 and 15 at the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Reservation. A clinic was held on September 16 at the Yavapai Nation Reservation at Fort McDowell.

Dr. Lorna Lanman, VECCF Board Member, was the local organizer with the assistance of the Salt River Environmental Health Office and the Yavapai Nation Animal Control Officer. Dr. Lanman provided her mobile veterinary clinic which served as the feline surgical suite. Appointments were set up for spays/neuters. Immunizations were provided by Dr. Evelyn Williams of the USDA.

Thirty-five attendees of the IVECCS Meeting volunteered one to 3 days to perform surgical procedures. Dr. William Smith, President, VEECF, coordinated the schedule for the volunteers. Volunteers came from all areas of the US, several from Canada, and two from Australia.

Dr. Lanman’s mobile veterinary clinic plus four surgical tables were set up with gas anesthesia and monitoring equipment in the Fire Stations at each reservation. Animals were received, physically examined, and induced prior to being placed on one of the surgery tables where veterinarians and technicians performed the applicable procedures. One hundred eighty-six animals are either spayed or neutered during the three days.

We are grateful to several industry partners for their generous donations and support for this project.

St. Bernard Parish Shelter Project

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In a collaborate effort between VECCF and LSU Veterinary School, the St. Bernard Parish Animal Shelter was identified as being most in need of restoration since the devastation of Hurricane Katrina two years prior. In only a few days volunteer veterinarians, technicians and students from all over the U.S. worked with the shelter staff to transform the facility. Equipment and supply items were donated on site by exhibitors at the Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Symposium including surgery instruments, wet tables, surgery lights, ophthalmoscope/otoscope combinations, stethoscopes and a gas anesthesia machine. Other equipment items were sold to the VECCF at significant discounts. Supplies such as vaccines, flea & tick products, antibiotics, diagnostic tests, needles, syringes, bandaging materials, etc were also donated and shipped by several industry partners.

Our heartfelt thanks goes out to all the volunteers and organizations evolved in the project for bringing hope and encouragement to the shelter.