'We were contacted by a 'new to us' organisation from the north coast to come and sterilise 30 dogs. Sables Creatures is another amazing organisation with awesome volunteers who ran such an organised 3 day steri clinc.
We left Merrivale bright and early on Friday morning only to discover there was an accident on the freeway which had completely closed it. After a long diversion, roadworks on the N3 and more roadwords on the N2 we finally arrived in Kwadakuza at about 11.30!! We were working in a municipal building and the 8 dogs were waiting, not so patiently, so with the help of the Sables volunteers we set up quickly and got started. Of course we were also in the middle of loadshedding, thankfully they had taken this into consideration and were using a generator. At the end of the day the dogs that had been booked in for Saturday had all started coughing so they wanted to make sure they were healthy enough for surgery so we headed off to check them out. Dr Lee started them all on antibiotics and gave the go ahead for them to be sterilised.We woke up to an amazing sunrise from our very comfortable accomodation. As we were working in the same venue we had left our tables set up so were able to get started by 8.30. We did 7 dogs and then sent them all home before the 5 coughing dogs came in. We also treated a few bite wounds as well as tick and flea treatment.
We had to move venue for Sunday as there was a church service booked. The new venue also had a church service happening in the main hall, while we worked in a room next door listening to the church singing. One of the dogs also joined in the singing. We sterilsed another 10 dogs which completed the 30 dogs booked. What a succesful clinic! Huge thanks to all at #SablesCreatures as well as Dierk and Rose who arranged our accomodation. There is such a need in the Kwadakuza area and they are doing an amazing job.' said or Midmar Vet Clinic reporter.
Well done to Dr Lee Pachonick and the whole team!
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