CLINIC DETAILS

Revenue for CPC will come from different sources. Before the clinic opens, we will utilize active fundraising campaigns naming specific aspects of our needs, asking the public to help. Revenue from our online yard sale Facebook page. After the clinic is open, we will utilize grants, revenue from the clinic, specific donation drives, general fundraising efforts as well as operating a thrift store. All these avenues will be used to help offset the day-to-day operating expenses and allow for specific low cost subsidies for low income individuals to be able to utilize services at a lower rate. Veterinary services will not be free but well within an affordable range.

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In the past few months, our organization has met with D.W. Lawhorn, the Bedford County Administrator, to discuss options for a potential wellness and spay/neuter clinic within the new shelter expansion. Details need to be worked out, but a joint effort with the County will help both CPC and the shelter by: 

1. Reducing the burden on taxpayers by saving money on traveling to outside clinics for services.

2. CPC would be operating and funding the clinic and utilizing the space within the shelter.

3. CPC would provide volunteers, staff if needed. Hiring a veterinarian or several could be negotiated between CPC and the county. We already have 2 veterinarians that would like to participate in offering spay/neuter surgeries as well as offering vaccine clinics.

4. CPC would save money on building a clinic by using the shelter space to operate the clinic, therefore using those saved funds for providing a mobile unit and other equipment like an x-ray machine and other expensive diagnostic equipment and supplies.

 

A clinic operated in Bedford County will have many benefits.

1. Reducing unwanted litters that may end up at the shelter.

2. Enabling pet owners to afford medical care rather than surrendering animals to the shelter.

3. Having a shared space with the County or stand-alone facility (mobile trailer for example) will save the shelter staff time and money. 

4. Adopters will not have to wait for their newly adopted pet to get spayed/neutered, thus moving animals out faster.

 

If every shelter animal leaves the shelter already spayed/neutered (given the appropriate age), the chance of returning offspring is zero! An animal that is already spayed/neutered is also more desirable and likely to be adopted quicker, again freeing up space faster.

 

Locally we must do more. Providing a clinic will help the community by making pet care more affordable, reducing intakes for the shelter while also providing a public safety element by offering pet vaccines reducing the risk of zoonotic diseases such as rabies, leptospirosis and distemper which can affect wildlife and non-vaccinated pets.

 

Our future goal is also to set up scholarships and veterinary technician training for Bedford County students and residents who are interested in the veterinary field. Our goal is to expand operations with a mobile unit to travel to the outreaches of the County to provide wellness services and spay neuter surgeries.