GREENVILLE, WI (WTAQ) – A local animal shelter is using four wheels to help our friends with four legs.
The Fox Valley Humane Association is hitting the road with two new projects.
The Fox Valley Humane Association’s mobile clinic was just an old Gold Cross Ambulance in December.
Shelter Director Deb Lewis says today, it’s completely refurbished and ready to roll.
“It’s a full clinic. We have refrigeration in there, we have a surgical table, we have plenty of storage”
The clinic will go to community events to provide low-cost pet care for people in need.
The clinic will also do house calls on a case by case basis for people without transportation.
“A woman called from Greenville last week. She’s been in her home for two years. Her cat needs dental care, her cat needs to see a veterinarian”
Lewis told us bringing vet care to those in need means fewer pets will be brought here.
“We want people to be able to keep these pets in their homes and not have to surrender them to us”
The humane association is also hitting the road with another program. The ‘Bark Bus” should be up and running in about a week.
Shelter employees will bring vans of homeless dogs up from southern states to shelters in Wisconsin.
Once the Bark Bus is fully up and running two vans will be doing four transports a week bringing dogs here from the south.
The Bark Bus will also provide edcational outreach at the southern shelters.
The mobile clinic’s first official event will be next Wednesday. It will be at the LEAVEN campus in Menasha.
