Alaska Rural Veterinary Outreach, Inc.

08/16/2025

KOTZEBUE!!! Mark your calendars we are coming soon! ARVO will be at the ATC Friday afternoon 9/12 through Sunday 9/14 am. Scheduling for services for your pets is live and ready on our website: www.akrvo.org. We can't wait to be back above the arctic circle! Thanks for Maniilaq, ASPCA, Banfield Foundation, and PetCo Love for helping make this clinic possible!

08/16/2025

THANK YOU SO MUCH Noorvik and Kiana for trusting us to care for your pets this past weekend! We had wonderful team members from Banfield and Blue Pearl, THANK YOU for coming with us. We provided over 75 rabies and dhpp vaccines as well as some spay/neuter surgeries and deworming. Thank you to all of our ARVO supporters for making this trip possible, as well as Banfield, Blue Pearl, Maniilaq Health, PetCo Love, ASPCA, and Bering Air. A picture never does justice but here are some snapshots from along the way!

08/14/2025

Dog Food Drive for Togiak
Our friend Janessa in Togiak is running low on dog food. She rescues dogs, sends out unwanted dogs and supports pet owners in various ways. If you would like to drop off dog food - any brand, kibble or cans - at Southside Animal Hospital, that would be wonderful! We will make sure to ship it right off! THANK YOU.

Southside Animal Hospital and Wellness Center is here for the pet parents of Anchorage, AK. Contact our experienced veterinary team today.

08/05/2025

We are excited to be heading to Noorvik and Kiana!

Noorvik clinic: August 6-8 at the Noorvik City Building.

Kiana clinic: August 8-10 at the City Building

Appointments can be booked here:

Dog Spay Dog Neuter Cat Spay Cat Neuter Rabies vaccines DHPP and FVRCP vaccines Dewormer Dewormer for tapeworms Wellness exam Euthanasia Medications Health Certificate Non-surgical Nail Trim ​ Book...

07/02/2025

We are excited to announce that we are taking appointment requests for our August clinics in Noorvik (August 6-8) and Kiana (August 8-10).

We are grateful to our generous supporters for making this clinic possible, including Banfield Foundation+Blue Pearl Cares+VCA Charities, Petco Love, The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and many others.

Appointments can be requested here:
https://www.akrvo.org/noorvikkiana-august-2025.html

06/30/2025

We would like to thank PetZoo for their successful food drive for ARVO! The staff did a fantastic job making this happen at the local stores. The Wasilla store raised the most, but all the stores contributed to the overall success of the food drive and we are so grateful to the stores in Eagle River, Anchorage, Palmer and Wasilla for helping us meet our goal!

PetZoo donated 500 pounds of The Honest Kitchen dog Food. The Honest Kitchen dog food is dehydrated and made of human grade food, so once it’s reconstituted, these 500 pounds of food become 20,000 pounds! It is fantastic for shipping to the villages because it’s packed in a box and is easy to store. All 500 pounds were shipped to Buckland and distributed directly to dog owners’ homes by the Mayor and NANA Resource Employee.

We also would like to thank Northern Air Cargo (NAC) for donating the freight cost to ship it to Kotzebue. Bering Air was generous and provided a discount to ship it from Kotzebue to Buckland. We are so grateful to all of these organizations! Thank you!

06/28/2025

We wanted to share another fantastic part of our Cordova trip!

Unique to this clinic, we were able to host a veterinary student from University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) to join us in caring for our underserved pet population.

Katherine Hood, class of 2028, learned how to administer vaccines, place IV catheters, and monitor patients from surgery through to recovery while in Cordova.

We loved her energy and enthusiasm for expanding her knowledge beyond what the classroom provides, and we are grateful that she chose to spend part of her summer break with us.

Katherine paved the way for what we hope will be a long-term collaboration between ARVO and UAF in helping educate students about the challenges facing pets in Alaska!

06/25/2025

We are happy to report a successful first clinic in beautiful Cordova!

From Friday afternoon to Sunday morning, we saw a total of 53 patients, providing a variety of services including spay and neuter surgeries (total of 11), wellness exams (26), and vaccinations (over 96 vaccines administered!).

We are beyond grateful for the warm welcome by the community, and to those pet owners who entrusted their furry family members to our care.

We could not do what we do without our supporters. In particular, we thank the Friends of the Valdez Animal Shelter, the City of Cordova, the Cordova Foundation, St. George’s Episcopal Church, Katherine Mead, Belle Mickelson, Banfield Foundation, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Petco Love, many more organizations and individual donors, and of course our volunteer team of veterinary professionals.

06/21/2025

Second day of our clinic in Cordova.
We are grateful for the community support and the beautiful weather!

06/17/2025

Hello ARVO friends and supporters! We appreciate your support throughout the years and are proud of what we accomplished in 2024 because of you. Here is a snapshot of our 2024 success.

05/30/2025

Alaska friends, help us get the word out!! ARVO will be in Cordova the weekend of 6/20-22 to offer veterinary services! This will be our first Cordova clinic and we are excited for the City of Cordova and FVAS to be making us so welcome. We'll be offering spay and neuter services for dogs and cats as well as wellness visits and vaccines. Visit our website at www.akrvo.org to make an appointment! We look forward to meeting Cordova pets and their families!

05/29/2025

Hello ARVO supporters and friends! We transported Kai to Anchorage recently because he was in serious condition from a wolf attack. His owner is very committed to him and is raising funds to help cover medical expenses. If you feel inclined to donate, please do so via their GoFundMe page.
Thank you for caring about our rural pets.

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