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Southside Healthy Pet Clinic is a registered student organization at Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine. Southside is a healthy pet clinic only.
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We are a student-run, cost-subsidized healthy pet clinic for low-income residents of the Ithaca Community. ** Due to COVID-19, normal clinic protocols have been modified until further notice. **

Southside Healthy Pet Clinic is a local animal clinic run by students from the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine. Students provide vaccinations, basic laboratory tests, preventatives, and

physical exams at a reduced fee for residents who could otherwise not afford these essential services. Through Southside, we students aim to benefit our local community by taking care of the pets and their human companions! Currently, clinics are being held at the Southside Community Health Clinic in Ithaca, NY every other Wednesday each month. Southside would not be possible without the generous support of Cornell University, donations of product from pharmaceutical companies, and financial support from various private donors! Southside would also not be possible without the generosity of Domino's Pizza, which provides the pizza for each clinic at a greatly reduced cost. Each of our donors has allowed Southside to serve the needs of pets that may otherwise never receive basic veterinary care and to create learning opportunities for Cornell veterinary students.

02/29/2024

Hello!

We wanted to post a reminder about our appointment policy. The services we provide are very valuable to the community and we depend on our clients respecting their scheduled appointment time. We understand last minute emergencies happen, however, if you know you will be unable to make your appointment, please email, call, or message us at least with 24 hours notice.

After 2 instances of cancelling less than 24 hours or providing no notice, you will no longer be eligible to schedule an appointment and you will only be seen as a walk-in the day of.

We have a high demand for appointments and want to provide our services to clients and their pets who continuously respect their scheduled appointment time.

01/25/2024

UPDATE: The previous link has broken so please click this link for the registration document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bcG85uKMjZGTtDsFG_RBwoZzoTj3rhgutTPcFlRs6vk/edit

Hello Ithaca community!

As a student-run, healthy pet clinic we strive ourselves in providing low cost preventative care to local pets. However, we are limited in our abilities and are always saddened to share that we do not perform spay or neuter surgeries. Nevertheless, we are excited to announce Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine's Annual Spay Day! 🤩

If you have been waiting to get your pets spayed or neutered, please read the flyer and scan the QR code for more information! Cornell's Spay Day provides free services, namely spay/neuter surgery, as well as vaccines, microchips, & flea/tick preventatives. 🐈🐕

It will be taking place Saturday February 17th 2024 at Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine. The link for the registration form itself is in the attached flyer or click this link: http://rb.gy/8a8rpi. Registration will open on February 3rd at noon. 🗓️

Unfortunately their capacity is very limited and in the past couple of years, once the form opens, the available appointments and waitlist fill up VERY quickly. This year they will be closing the registration once the waitlist is full or on February 6th at noon (whichever comes first).

You can direct any questions or concerns to [email protected].

01/24/2024

We will not be taking walk in appointments tonight. All previously scheduled appointments will still be happening as normal. Thank you!

12/14/2023

Last night was our last clinic of 2023! ✨

Thank you volunteers and pet parents for joining us and making it a success. 🐾 But most importantly to our advisors who put on a wonderful holiday spread for all to enjoy, featuring litter box chips and goldfish in a pet feeder! 🍽️ 😂🫶🏼

11/19/2023

Hi everyone! This is your yearly reminder that we will not be open this Wednesday November 22nd. We hope you all enjoy your Thanksgiving! Our clinics will resume December 13th. Thank you!

11/14/2023

Another clinic in the books! ☑️

Thank you to our student volunteers for helping out and to these pets for being so cute! 🐾

08/28/2023

Though summer is coming to an end, our Healthy Pet Animal Clinics are continuing on full swing! ✨

You may have met some of our new directors this summer as they held down the fort and worked hard to keep the clinics running (thank you!!). Our 8 new veterinary student directors are now all back and excited to keep running the clinics over this next year! 🥳

From left to right: 🐾
Lead Vaterinarian Dr. Collins
Diane Hwangpo
Kelly Toribio-Varela
Chaia Ona
Angie Marin
Natalie Tan
Rebecca Jaramillo
Kimaya Bakhle
Kelly Maffei

Of course these clinics wouldn't be possible without the help of our lead veterinarian, Dr. Collins, assisting veterinarians, student clinician volunteers, pre-vet volunteers, Rhody, the Southside Community Center, and of course the Ithaca community! 🫶🏼

Looking forward to seeing your pets! 🩺

08/05/2023

Update: To clarify, this is especially important if we've seen your DOG in the last year as we have extra CANINE preventatives. Feel free to reach out with any questions.

Hi all!

We are looking to give away extra preventatives from our stock by the end of August! If you are a client who has visited us in the last year and is in need of more flea, tick, heartworm, and intestinal parasite prevention for your pet, please feel free to contact us via Facebook messenger or at our email: [email protected].

07/26/2023

Hello everyone!

If you have been to our clinic in the past few months and we asked you to call back about parasite preventatives that we did not have during your appointment, please stop by tonight between 6:30 and 8:30 to pick them up. Thank you all for your understanding!

05/11/2023

The 2022-2023 directors finished their duties as directors yesterday!

We are grateful for having this opportunity to work with the Ithaca community for the past year as directors of Cornell’s student run clinic.

We learned valuable skills that will be useful for our careers and it is a bittersweet feeling as we leave our roles, but we are really proud and looking forward to see the new set of directors take over the clinic!

Be on the look for a presentations of the new directors soon!

03/21/2023

Hello Everyone,

Our clinic tomorrow, March 22nd is booked full so we will be unable to accommodate walk in appointments. If you are in need of an appointment for a later clinic please send us an email at [email protected] or send us a message on facebook. Thank you very much for your understanding!

01/25/2023

Hello Everyone,

Due to the inclement weather, we have cancelled our healthy pet clinic this evening, January 25th.

If your pet had an appointment with us this evening, please either email us at [email protected] or message us on facebook to reschedule.

We are very sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused and thank you for your understanding!

10/11/2022

Due to our full schedule tomorrow night, our clinic will not be able to see any walk-ins. Patients will be seen by APPOINTMENT only. Thank you so much for your understanding and please email us to schedule any future appointments for your pet’s needs.

07/27/2022

Due to our full schedule tonight, our clinic will not be able to see any walk-ins. Patients will be seen by APPOINTMENT only. Thank you so much for your understanding and please email us to schedule any future appointments for your pet’s needs.

06/20/2022

We regret to inform that due to unforeseen circumstances our clinic on 6/22 has been canceled. All cancelled appointments for the 6/22 clinic are rescheduled and clients should have received a follow up email. Otherwise, please reach out to us by email to schedule an appointment for our next available clinic.

05/06/2022

It's a puppy parade!

Our students at Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine celebrated another successful Southside Healthy Pet Clinic last month — providing affordable clinical care to the local Ithaca community.

We love to see it! 🐾❤️🐕

Photo provided (and taken with owners' permission).

04/13/2022

We are accepting walk-ins tonight (4/13) at the Southside Healthy Pet Clinic! Come to the Southside Community Center from 6-8:00 TONIGHT for a healthy pet exam!
Appointments are $20 and include a full exam, any needed vaccinations, preventive bloodwork, and heartworm and flea/tick preventatives! We can provide microchips for an additional $10. **We accept cash only (and exact change, please!)** Please see the requirements below, as we are a clinic for low income individuals.
Call 607-873-2612 when you arrive so we know you’re here. We look forward to seeing you!
Income requirements:
Here is more information about the documents we accept:
- Medicaid card
- VA Disability
- Proof of social security disability income or Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
- EBT Card
- Pay Stub from last 6 months
- W-2 Form from the previous year
- Other proof of public assistance (food stamps, subsidized school lunch program)
Clients with income levels lower than twice the poverty line, as defined federally for the current year, are eligible. If you are not eligible based on these guidelines but have extenuating circumstances we will do our best to help you and your pet however possible.

04/05/2022

No, we're not KITTEN you! The Cornell Vet Feline Club is excited to announce that we will be hosting our 6th annual FELINE FOLLIES on SATURDAY, APRIL 9TH, 2022!

The event is open to the entire Ithaca community and will include a-MEOW-zing raffle drawings, adoptable cats, educational mini-lectures, cat photography, and so much more!

03/09/2022

We are accepting walk-ins tonight (3/9) at the Southside Healthy Pet Clinic! Come to the Southside Community Center from 6-8:00 TONIGHT for a healthy pet exam!

Appointments are $20 and include a full exam, any needed vaccinations, preventive bloodwork, and heartworm and flea/tick preventatives! We can provide microchips for an additional $10. **We accept cash only (and exact change, please!)** Please see the requirements below, as we are a clinic for low income individuals.

Call 607-873-2612 when you arrive so we know you’re here. We look forward to seeing you!

Income requirements:
Here is more information about the documents we accept:

- Medicaid card
-VA Disability
- Proof of social security disability income or Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
- EBT Card
- Pay Stub from last 6 months
- W-2 Form from the previous year
- Other proof of public assistance (food stamps, subsidized school lunch program)

Clients with income levels lower than twice the poverty line, as defined federally for the current year, are eligible. If you are not eligible based on these guidelines but have extenuating circumstances we will do our best to help you and your pet however possible.

02/23/2022

We are accepting walk-ins tonight at the Southside Healthy Pet Clinic! Come to the Southside Community Center from 6-8:00 TONIGHT for a healthy pet exam!

Appointments are $20 and include a full exam, any needed vaccinations, preventive bloodwork, and heartworm and flea/tick preventatives! We can provide microchips for an additional $10. We accept cash only (and exact change, please!) Please see the requirements below, as we are a clinic for low income individuals.

Call 607-873-2612 when you arrive so we know you’re here. We look forward to seeing you!

Income requirements:
Here is more information about the documents we accept:

- Medicaid card
-VA Disability
- Proof of social security disability income or Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
- EBT Card
- Pay Stub from last 6 months
- W-2 Form from the previous year
- Other proof of public assistance (food stamps, subsidized school lunch program)

Clients with income levels lower than twice the poverty line, as defined federally for the current year, are eligible. If you are not eligible based on these guidelines but have extenuating circumstances we will do our best to help you and your pet however possible.

02/20/2022

Tompkins County will be hosting a drive through rabies clinic on Saturday, March 12th, at the TCAT Bus Garage. Pre-registration is required!

Please visit https://tompkinscountyny.gov/health/eh/rabies to register or call (607)-274-6688 for assistance!

01/04/2022

The Southside directors and team hope everyone has had safe and happy holidays! We have canceled our 1/12 clinic due to concerns about rising COVID cases. If you are interested in making an appointment for our 1/26 clinic, please email at [email protected]

Thank you!

12/08/2021

Come down to the Southside Community Center from 6-8:30 TONIGHT for a healthy pet exam!

Appointments are $20 and include a full exam, any needed vaccinations, preventive bloodwork, and heartworm and flea/tick preventatives!

Call 607-873-2612 when you arrive so we know you’re here. We look forward to seeing you!

10/05/2021

Hi everyone!

Southside is holding its next clinic on 10/13 at Southside Community Center in Ithaca, NY and we still have availability! If you are a Tompkins County resident and are interested, please email [email protected] to set up an appointment.

We hope to hear from you!

We are still accepting appointments for our next clinic on 9/22 from 6-9PM. Please email southsidecornell@gmail.com to ...

09/17/2021

We are still accepting appointments for our next clinic on 9/22 from 6-9PM. Please email [email protected] to make an appointment for your pet! We look forward to seeing you there!

09/08/2021

Come down to the Southside Community Center from 6-8:30 TONIGHT for a healthy pet exam!

Appointments are $20 and include a full exam, any needed vaccinations, and a years worth of preventatives!

Call 607-873-2612 when you arrive so we know you’re here. We look forward to seeing you!

08/25/2021

Hi all!
Southside Healthy Pet Clinic will be taking a very limited number of walk-ins tonight (8/25/21) at Southside Community Center from 6PM-8:30PM. Call (607) 873-2612 beginning at 6 PM to get set up with an appointment.

We serve low-income individuals and proof of income is required (we accept documents including medicaid cards, VA disability, SSI, EBT, 6 month pay stub, W-2 forms, and other proof of public assistance). Clients with income levels lower than twice the poverty line (federally) are eligible.

Service is curbside and clients will not be allowed in the building.
$20 per pet includes: physical exam, core vaccines, 4dx (heartworm and tickborne disease test for dogs) or FeLV/FIV test (for cats), preventatives while supplies last, and optional microchip (additional $10). Exact change required at time of service.

We look forward to seeing you!

Address

305 S Plain Street
Ithaca, NY
14850

Website

https://sites.google.com/view/southsidepetclinic/

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Southside Healthy Pet Clinic is a local animal clinic run by students from the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine. Students provide vaccinations, basic laboratory tests, preventatives, and physical exams at a reduced fee for residents who could otherwise not afford these essential services. Through Southside, we students aim to benefit our local community by taking care of the pets and their human companions! Southside is a healthy pet clinic only. We are open the second and fourth Wednesdays of every month starting at 6:00PM. Southside would not be possible without the generous support of Cornell University, donations of product from pharmaceutical companies, and financial support from various private donors! Southside would also not be possible without the generosity of Domino's Pizza, which provides the pizza for each clinic at a greatly reduced cost. Each of our donors has allowed Southside to serve the needs of pets that may otherwise never receive basic veterinary care and to create learning opportunities for Cornell veterinary students.