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Ponemah pet clinic part of campaign for more Indigenous veterinarians

In the gymnasium of the Ponemah Elementary School veterinarian Raye Taylor is hard at work. She’s visiting with a feline patient through the screen door of a green pop-up tent. Because of cats’ nature the clinician found it easier to work with these patients if the cats were by themselves.

But there’s more than just cat-care going on here.

According to an American Veterinary Medical Association report “the veterinary profession is one of the least ethnically and racially diverse professions in the country.” Native Americans make up only about 1 percent of US veterinarians.

However, this week in Ponemah, the numbers are very different. This is the first pet clinic for the organization Natives in Vet Med.

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A puppy is comfortable

The pet clinic continues in Red Lake until Sunday. It is the largest one in the area’s history.

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One of its founders, vet tech Mitakamizi Liberty, is an enrolled member

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Mobile animal wellness clinic brings services to families without access to a veterinarian

A new mobile animal wellness clinic has been moving around Greater Sudbury this summer, providing veterinary services to families without the means to take their animals to a local veterinarian.

The Ontario SPCA and Humane Society have partnered with Greater Sudbury Animal Services, and earlier this summer they launched their Mobile Animal Wellness Clinic.

The mobile vet clinic travels to a different location each month for its Animal Wellness Days. Through pre-booked appointments, the clinic provides general wellness examinations and vaccinations for cats and dogs and, when necessary and requested by a family, end-of-life care.

The appointments are reserved for those who receive government subsidies or have an Indigenous status card, and do not have a relationship with a local veterinarian.

“We’re trying to move [the unit] around the city and cover all our geographical locations where our services might be needed — so, the Flour Mill, New Sudbury, and we’re working on a south end location to try and make it accessible to anybody,” said Hope Lumbis, manager of the SPCA’s Mobile Animal Wellness Services.

A woman with brown hair wearing blue scrubs smiles and holds a gray and white kitten in front of a trailer.
Hope Lumbis is manager of the SPCA’s Mobile Animal Wellness Services. (Erika Chorostil/CBC News)

Lumbis says the wellness days took place over two to

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