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World Vets Equine Welfare Clinic in Nicaragua

Katie — Tue, 14 May 2013 18:55:43 +0000

World Vets recently deployed a volunteer veterinary team to Granada, Nicaragua as part of our equine welfare project in the area. Our team, along with Nicaraguan veterinarians and students, held a free equine welfare clinic in and around the city which benefited 300 horses.

This clinic targeted carriage and cart horses whose owners can`t afford veterinary services for their working equines. Services included parasite control, hoof and dental work, vaccinations, castrations, pregnancy checks, wound treatments, mass removals and more!

This project is generously supported by Fondation Brigitte Bardot.

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World Vets “Wonder Women” in Grenada

Katie — Mon, 06 May 2013 16:46:09 +0000

In April World Vets sent an all female volunteer veterinary team to St. George’s, Grenada. There they worked in collaboration with the Grenada SPCA as well as students from St. George’s University. Together we provided a large scale spay/neuter and animal health campaign which resulted in animals from all over the island benefiting from our free services. We’d like to thank World Vets veterinary volunteers as well as GSPCA and St. George’s University for all of their support in making our visit and campaign a reality.

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Accepting New Project Requests for 2014

Katie — Wed, 01 May 2013 01:00:35 +0000

World Vets strives to work in partnership with foreign animal welfare groups, veterinary professionals, local and national governments and NGO’s as well as their respective agencies responsible for animal welfare, agriculture and public health. Throughout the year World Vets sends volunteer veterinary teams, who work in collaboration with many of these entities, to provide free veterinary services to animals in need. More specifically, we provide skilled teams of veterinary professionals to execute large scale community and/or island wide veterinary care.

If you would like to request that a World Vets team visit your area in the coming year to provide free veterinary services, please send an email to *protected email* to receive our official requesting veterinary assistance form.This form must be filled out by a member of the requesting organization and/or animal welfare or volunteer group who resides in the requesting project location.

To be considered for a veterinary team visit we must receive a completed requesting veterinary assistance form from you by if not before the deadline posted. The prospective project must also be located in a developing country and there must be a strong existing base of local support or at least the ability to create such partnerships that would aid and/or host a World Vets campaign. All of World Vets services are provided free. Our services should not be seen and/or solicited to serve as an income generating opportunity for requesting organizations. Read more about requesting veterinary assistance here

We will be accepting new project requests for 2014 until August 1st, 2013.

1 Spot Left on our Pilot Project to Suriname!

Katie — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:41:07 +0000

There is just 1 TECH/STUDENT position left open for our June 2013 pilot project to Paramaribo, Suriname, located in South America.

Join us in this new project location to be part of and provide a three day large scale sterilization campaign for cats and dogs. There will also be time for leisure to explore the surrounding area and sights. Read more about this volunteer opportunity here

The “Tech/Student “position is open to licensed and non-licensed veterinary technicians as well as pre – veterinary students, veterinary students and veterinary technology students. To learn more about the anticipated activities and tasks under this category, see volunteer descriptions.

Making the Impossible, Possible

Katie — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:09:52 +0000

“Pecas”, a 13 year old female dog, arrived at our most recent spay/neuter and animal outreach clinic held last month in San Andres Island. Overall she was in good shape and generally well looked after. However, over her lifetime she had had countless litters and was still cycling in her old age. For fear that she would accidentally become pregnant again, her owner wanted to have “Pecas” spayed. While this was not an uncommon scenario, what made this case especially unique was that “Pecas” had recently been diagnosed heartworm positive by a local veterinarian. She was also discovered to have a fast heart rate and murmur. It was claimed that because of this condition she would not likely survive the surgery.

Our team spoke at length to the owner and advised on the ideal way to get “Pecas” spayed – with gas anesthesia and more monitoring equipment – luxuries that were not present at our field condition clinic. Unfortunately this was not a viable option either as such equipment did not exist on the island for animals and the owner could not afford to fly “Pecas” to the Colombian mainland for the procedure.

After much consideration and being made aware of the risks involved, “Pecas” owner elected to have the surgery done as he believed it was in her best interest. Even though we did not have a fancy surgical suite, we did have on hand an AliveCor heart monitor to run an EKG as well as monitor “Pecas” heart rate. World Vets veteran Dr. Michelle Ward monitored “Pecas” with the AliveCor while Dr. Barry Nichols performed the surgery. Upon her return to the United States, Dr. Ward had the EKG analyzed, which confirmed that there were no EKG abnormalities. We would like to thank Antech for donating their services in the EKG analysis.

We are happy to report that “Pecas” recovered very smoothly from the anesthesia and had been doing great following her discharge from the clinic. In the end, the owner was very happy that he had decided to do the surgery and that World Vets had come to the island making her surgery impossible to possible.

IVM Program Spring Session Results

Katie — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:17:02 +0000

During the whole month of March, World Vets operated its International Veterinary Medicine (IVM) Program out of its Training Center facility located in Granada, Nicaragua.This program is specifically designed for veterinary, pre-veterinary and technician students who wish to gain clinical and practical experience, in addition to immersion within the field of international veterinary medicine. This program also provides volunteer opportunities for licensed veterinarians as well as licensed veterinary technicians as instructors.

As a result of this program, 214 spay/neuter surgeries were performed (during the month of March) on community owned animals that were in need of the operation. These much needed spay/neuter services, as well as any additional medical treatments, were provided free of charge to pet owners and the community.

“Semana Santa” Spay/Neuter Clinic in San Andres Island

Katie — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 02:32:29 +0000

During Semana Santa (Holy Week), World Vets had a veterinary team on the Caribbean Island of San Andres Island. We provided a large scale spay/neuter clinic and also attended health consultations. All services were provided free of charge. The island currently lacks regular veterinary services for small animals and our clinic, in collaboration with the island’s department of health, saw up to 300 animals and performed 198 surgeries in just a couple of days.

We’d like to thank the San Andres Island department of health for all their efforts that went into coordinating this event as well as World Vets volunteers and Fondation Brigitte Bardot for their support of this project.

An Outstanding Effort in Ecuador

Katie — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 01:06:17 +0000

During the month of March World Vets sent a veterinary team to the Otavalo region of Ecuador in support of our small animal project. We have been working in this region for the past four years with local animal welfare group PAE Ibarra to control the street as well as owned small animal population. We thank Fondation Brigitte Bardot for their continual support of this project as well as our volunteers that put forth an outstanding effort which resulted in 229 free spay/neuter surgeries being performed.

Join us on our next campaign (July 17 -24, 2013)! Read more

A Successful Veterinary Campaign in Roatan

Katie — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:56:11 +0000

We have just completed a successful veterinary campaign Roatan, Honduras. Our veterinary team provided not only free spay/neuter services but an animal outreach clinic which provided free health consultations and preventative health treatments to small animals. During our visit, we performed 160 surgeries and treated over 350 animals. One of our patients was a dog that jumped off a roof but was lucky enough to receive special emergency surgery from our outstanding volunteers.

We would like to thank Fondation Brigitte Bardot, our volunteers on Team Roatan, Sandra & Al Zeilstra and all of the local contributors that continue to support our efforts on the island.

Working Hard in Arusha, Tanzania

Katie — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:06:30 +0000

We have just completed a two week veterinary campaign in Arusha, Tanzania. During this campaign, our teams operated mobile donkey welfare clinics in multiple areas which resulted in close to 1000 donkeys receiving free veterinary services. Following donkey work, we also operated a vaccination campaign where 400 dogs were vaccinated for rabies.

We’d like to thank the Arusha Society for the Protection of Animals (ASPA) as well as our Team Arusha volunteers for such a successful outcome.