Hi guys,
We're working on starting up public low cost vet care (for sick pets, beyond well pet vaccines and care). Specifically our vet care will not be designed to be an income generating service, but instead to serve people in need without other options (we anticipate using some funding to underwrite some of the care). If you offer this service AND are open admission, I'd love to talk. If you aren't but know someone who is, suggestions gratefully received! Specifically what I'm wrestling with...if someone brings a pet to our adoption center at this time, and the pet is being surrendered because of a medical issue that we can fix, we fix it and give back to the family for whatever they can pay. Things we have been fixing include amputations, eye removal, bladder stone removal, parvo treatment, dystocia, pyometra, foreign body removals via abdominal explore - a lot of stuff. Once we start offering actual public available low cost care, and a client's pet has an issue that we are not able to address medically at the clinic, or we could but neither we nor the client have enough funding to have that care done through our clinic - they're just still going to come to our adoption center. What do we do then? Do we still fix them up and give them back, even though our clinic couldn't? Do we only admit them to fix them and give to a new family and refuse to return to their own family since their own family couldn't access care through our clinic? How do we maintain a balance between the clinic offering care vs things continuing to just get care through the adoption center? One of the reasons for us starting the clinic will be to alleviate the strain on the adoption center with these animals, but we will never be able to fix everything for free/low cost. If you've wrestled with similar or know an org who does, I'd love to talk. Thanks all! Karina --
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