SPAY CLINIC TEST RUN

After 2 years of planning, our very own PCHS Spay Clinic held its first "test run" spaying 5 cats and 3 dogs!

The clinic is a limited service clinic that helps those most in need in our community - qualifying income citizens, animal shelter/rescue/humane society pets, and feral cats.

We have hired our own Licensed Vet Tech, Luann, that works every Wednesday at the shelter. I now understand how much technical experience this position requires. She ran between 3 rooms for 8 hours like a ping-pong ball! I didn't even get a shot of her face since her head was down the entire time - FOCUSED. Between calculating, shaving, sticking tubes down throats, vaccinating ----- whew --- there was a LOT to think about (another back shot of Luann).

We have 2 participating vets that we are ever so grateful for --- Dr. Vaughn and Dr. Call. Both have agreed to help us on alternating days of the month to perform surgeries for our clinic! We're thrilled to have such experience surgeons help us. It was a truly exciting day - even if a little tiring. We were fortunate to have both vets helping us today - WOW - you can't beat that !

For some reason I want to launch into ... "We are famil-ie"... between our fantastic volunteers that never cease to amaze me at how much they give and give and give - to our wonderful local vets that also give and give and give --- it's truly a family community, making things better for our Pulaski pets!

Many thanks to Lisa, Anita, and JoAnn for helping today. While we were getting the clinic up and running, our "she-women" were helping haul in dog food, walking dogs, and scrubbing down kennels -- these are tiring and extensive jobs. I thank them and David for all they do. Debbie was combing the condo cats and Barb and Billy were running around doing laundry, getting photo updates for the websites, and answering the publics questions.

It was a really busy day - but one filled with excitement and hope that one day not one shelter pet will have to be euthanized simply because there are not enough homes because people have not taken pet overpopulation seriously.




I would also like to thank our county for allowing us to exist in the shelter at no charge - without this facility, we would be back to square one. Animal control has allowed us to take over the back of the shelter on surgery days and we also appreciate their understanding and commitment to our clinic opening. I always say, if we can do it, anyone can - it just takes a famil-ie.

I guess you have to be a serious shelter volunteer to appreciate this photo -------- here today, gone tomorrow ---- well, actually it was more like gone in 10 minutes! Lisa got the best job of the day ------- someone's got to do it ! Poor little Oreo -- our "first" victim.

Bye-bye little gems.