Mission Impossible? No, Mission Pawsible! We have the truck, a veterinarian and technician, and dogged determination to be spaying and neutering in rural and remote communities by April! We just need the funds to buy the specialized equipment to put in the truck.
The biggest pet problem in B.C. is inadequate access to vet care. For some folks, this is due to transportation challenges, for others it is the cost of pet healthcare. We get it. That’s why CARE Network is doing what no other organization in B.C. has been able to do: Starting a non-profit mobile vet clinic.
We need your help to get this plan rolling to rural and remote communities and to animal rescues.
One way you can help is to host a fun Spay-ghetti, No Balls Dinner Party. You and your friends will be raising the funds needed to outfit our unique, 32-foot truck to spay and neuter dogs and cats. One way it can work:
- You impress your friends by signing up to host a party (by donating $1000 to the new spay & neuter truck: carenetwork.ca/donate)
- We, CARE’s veterinarian, our vet technician and James (CARE co-founder), show up with: A pot of Spay-ghetti sauce and noodles made by a local eatery, enough wine and/or kombucha to get the party started, and an animal-themed playlist of tunes
- While the noodles are cooking, we will share a brief history of how we got to the point of needing to trick out a big truck to be B.C.’s first non-profit, mobile vet clinic and answer questions.
- Maybe your friends want to know how to do a feline spay surgery?
- Maybe they need to know why mass dog & cat sterilization isn’t a thing (yet)?
- We’ll then pass a hat around to your friends with the goal of raising another $5000 from the group to get the $150,000 vet truck rolling by this April!
At that point, we will hook you up with a fun dessert and leave you to celebrate your collective compassion and generosity.
Don’t feel like a party but still would like to get this clinic on the road to help countless animals? Please share the project and donate here: carenetwork.ca/donate
For ten years CARE has been working on the west coast to help any animal in need – eagles, dogs, cats, raccoons, etc. Over the years we have managed to help bring volunteer veterinarian teams to rural and remote communities in our region to do spay & neuter and vaccination clinics. But those opportunities are now as rare as a winning lottery ticket.
So, it is time to innovate animal care and population control at the end of the road. And we can have fun while doing it. We’ll bring the grub and some fun stories; you bring your friends and the funds. Together we can help thousands of animals in rural and remote communities.
(No animals were fed spaghetti for this story)