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Shelter Medicine Program

Based in the VHC Community Practice Section, our shelter medicine faculty members and technician provide exceptional care to shelter animals in need and excellent learning opportunities for veterinary students.

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Shelter Medicine Program

Our Shelter Medicine Program increases veterinary students’ opportunities for hands-on training in spay and neuter as well as preventive care while helping animal shelters keep down costs for veterinary care and improving shelter animals’ chances for adoption. We have a mobile unit that prior to COVID would visit shelters in several areas of Missouri. The mobile unit trips are currently on hold due to COVID, but we hope to resume them next year. Prior to COVID, we had had around four geographic locations on our regular outreach schedule (Kirksville, Sedalia, St. Charles, and Louisiana, Missouri). We were doing primarily trap, neuter and return for community (feral) cats at those locations. The exception is Kirksville, where we do surgeries for shelter animals. We will soon have our satellite surgery suite at the shelter in Kirksville (Adair County Humane Society) up and running.

We also work with CMHS and Second Chance to provide services.

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Impact

Shelter animals throughout mid-Missouri benefit every day from the medical services we provide at our dedicated surgical facility south of Columbia, on the road with our mobile shelter medicine unit, and on-site at our partner animal shelters.
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Contact

Small Animal Hospital
  573-882-7821
  https://vhc.missouri.edu/small-animal-hospital/

Partners

Central Missouri Humane Society
  (573) 443-7387
  https://cmhspets.org/
Second Chance
  (660) 882-5050
  https://columbia2ndchance.org/

Location

  900 E Campus Dr, Columbia, MO 65201, USA

More Information

http://vhc.missouri.edu/small-animal-hospital/shelter-medicine/

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