Umpqua Low-Cost Veterinary Services

Umpqua Low-Cost Veterinary Services Veterinary medicine on a mission Our goal is to reduce the number of unwanted pets by promoting and providing discount spay/neuter services.
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Our Mission
It is the mission of Umpqua Low Cost Veterinary Services to provide pets with high quality veterinary care when economic barriers may otherwise prevent access to those services. Who We Are
Umpqua Low-Cost Veterinary Services is a 501c3 non-profit organization founded in 2009. The current location was established in 2011. All operating and capital expenses are paid solely by fees charge

d for services, private foundation grants, individual and corporate donation. What We Do
We are a highly progressive full service veterinary hospital including in-house diagnostics. We provided discounted veterinary services to qualified low-income residents and non-profit animal welfare organizations. We provide free services for the homeless. We offer discount spay/neuter services for all feral cats. Eligibility for Services at The Low-Cost Clinic

ULVS provides discounted veterinary services to qualified low-income residents & non-profit animal welfare organizations such as shelters and rescue groups. ULVS requires that ALL PETS IN THE HOUSEHOLD be spayed/neutered to continue receiving services and care through The Low-Cost Clinic. *Individuals who are unwilling to have their pets spayed/neutered will not be approved for services through The Low-Cost Clinic. How to Qualify
Individuals MUST provide proof of low-income status prior to ANY services. Individuals must continue to meet low income status for continued services and care through The Low-Cost Clinic. PROOF OF INCOME OPTIONS
* Most Recent Tax Return
* 2 Months of Pay Stubs
* Social Security/Benefits Award Letter
* Oregon Trail Food Stamp Award Letter from DHS Office

ULVS does NOT operate on a sliding scale. Prices are set and significantly reduced to make them as affordable as possible. PAYMENT IS DUE AT TIME OF SERVICE. All deposits and/or account credits are NON-REFUNDABLE.

** If your pet needs immediate medical care and has NOT been spayed or neutered you will be required to pay a NON-REFUNDABLE DEPOSIT for that pet's spay/neuter surgery; in ADDITION to the cost of treating your sick pet at the time of service. Sick pets are NOT required to undergo spay/neuter surgery until they are fully recovered from their illness. If your sick or injured pet is going under anesthesia as part of their care or treatment, and is also healthy enough to undergo the spay/neuter surgery, it will be done at that time. If your pet requires spay/neuter surgery at a later date and you do not return to have your pet spayed/neutered, you WILL NOT be eligible for continued services of any kind through The Low-Cost Clinic. How to Renew Qualifications
Individuals must continue to meet low-income status to continue receiving services through The Low-Cost Clinic. Individuals are required to renew services and provide updated proof of low-income status. Renewal requirements depend on how an individual qualified for services and what documents were used to provided proof of low-income status. RENEWAL SCHEDULE
* Tax Return (Annual Income) - RENEW Annually
* SS/SSI/VA (Ret./Disability) - RENEW Annually
* Pay Stubs (Monthly Income) - RENEW 6 Months
* Oregon Trail Food Card - RENEW on DHS SCHEDULE

Feral Cat Program
ULVS provides discount spay/neuter services Mon-Fri for ALL FERAL CATS. There are NO INCOME ELIGIBILITY -OR- APPOINTMENT REQUIRED for individuals to bring trapped ferals to The Low-Cost Clinic for discount spay/neuter services. ALL feral cats that are spayed/neutered at DCLVS WILL BE EAR TIPPED & TATTOOED.

08/19/2023

The FDA said it was issuing the advisory as the contaminated lots "pose a significant risk to human and animal health."

02/05/2023

The shy and lovable rescue dog does not like water. But he didn't hesitate to rescue the toddler from the surf.

Guido is 4 months old today!
12/24/2022

Guido is 4 months old today!

Have a box of kleenex handy...
12/24/2022

Have a box of kleenex handy...

A Eulogy for P-22, A Mountain Lion Who Changed the World
Beth Pratt, National Wildlife Federation

I write this eulogy while looking across one of the ten-lane freeways P-22 somehow miraculously crossed in 2012, gazing at a view of his new home, Griffith Park. Burbank Peak and the other hills that mark the terminus of the Santa Monica Mountains emerge from this urban island like sentinels making a last stand against the second largest city in the country. The traffic noise never ceases. Helicopters fly overhead. The lights of the city give the sky no peace.

Yet a mountain lion lived here, right here in Los Angeles.

I can’t finish this sentence without crying because of the past tense. It’s hard to imagine I will be writing about P-22 in the past tense now.

Biologists and veterinarians with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced today they have made the difficult decision to end P-22’s suffering and help him transition peacefully to the next place. I hope his future is filled with endless forests without a car or road in sight and where deer are plentiful, and I hope he finally finds the mate that his island existence denied him his entire life.

I am so grateful I was given the opportunity to say goodbye to P-22. Although I have advocated for his protection for a decade, we had never met before. I sat near him, looking into his eyes for a few minutes, and told him he was a good boy. I told him how much I loved him. How much the world loved him. And I told him I was so sorry that we did not make the world a safer place for him. I apologized that despite all I and others who cared for him did, we failed him.

I don’t have any illusion that my presence or words comforted him. And I left with a great sadness I will carry for the rest of my days.
Before I said goodbye, I sat in a conference room with team members from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the team of doctors at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. The showed me a video of P-22’s CT scan, images of the results, and my despair grew as they outlined the list of serious health issues they had uncovered from all their testing: stage two kidney failure, a weight of 90 pounds!!! (he normally weighs about 125), head and eye trauma, a hernia causing abdominal organs to fill his chest cavity, an extensive case of demodex gatoi (a parasitic skin infection likely transmitted from domestic cats), heart disease, and more. The most severe injuries resulted from him being hit by a car last week, and I thought of how terrible it was that this cat, who had managed to evade cars for a decade, in his weakened and desperate condition could not avoid the vehicle strike that sealed his fate.

As the agency folks and veterinarians relayed these sobering facts to me, tissue boxes were passed around the table and there wasn’t a dry eye in the house. This team cares just as much for this cat as we all do. They did everything they could for P-22 and deserve our gratitude.

Although I wished so desperately he could be returned to the wild, or live out his days in a sanctuary, the decision to euthanize our beloved P-22 is the right one. With these health issues, there could be no peaceful retirement, only some managed care existence where we prolonged his suffering—not for his benefit, but for ours.
Those of us who have pets know how it feels when we receive news from the veterinarian that we don’t want to hear. As a lifelong dog and cat owner, I have been in this dreadful position too many times. The decision to let them go is never easy, but we as humans have the ability, the responsibility, and the selflessness to show mercy to end the suffering for these beloved family members, a compassionate choice we scarcely have for ourselves.

I look at Griffith Park through the window again and feel the loss so deeply. Whenever I hiked to the Hollywood sign, or strolled down a street in Beachwood Canyon to pick up a sandwich at The Oaks, or walked to my car after a concert at the Greek Theater, the wondrous knowledge that I could encounter P-22 always propelled me into a joyous kind of awe. And I am not alone -- his legion of stans hoped for a sight of Hollywood’s most beloved celebrity, the Brad Pitt of the cougar world, on their walks or on their Ring cams, and when he made an appearance, the videos usually went viral. In perhaps the most Hollywood of P-22’s moments, human celebrity Alan Ruck, star of Succession, once reported seeing P-22 from his deck, and shouting at him like a devoted fan would.

We will all be grappling with the loss of P-22 for some time, trying to make sense of a Los Angeles without this magnificent wild creature. I loved P-22 and hold a deep respect for his intrepid spirit, charm, and just plain chutzpah. We may never see another mountain lion stroll down Sunset Boulevard or surprise customers outside the Los Feliz Trader Joe’s. But perhaps that doesn’t matter—what matters is P-22 showed us it’s possible.

He changed us. He changed the way we look at LA. And his influencer status extended around the world, as he inspired millions of people to see wildlife as their neighbors. He made us more human, made us connect more to that wild place in ourselves. We are part of nature and he reminded us of that. Even in the city that gave us Carmeggedon, where we thought wildness had been banished a long time ago, P-22 reminded us it’s still here.
His legacy to us, and to his kind will never fade. He ensured a future for the entire population of mountain lions in the Santa Monica Mountains by inspiring us to build the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing, which broke ground this spring.

P-22 never fully got to be a mountain lion. His whole life, he suffered the consequences of trying to survive in unconnected space, right to the end when being hit by a car led to his tragic end. He showed people around the world that we need to ensure our roads, highways, and communities are better and safer when people and wildlife can freely travel to find food, shelter, and families. The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing would not have been possible without P-22, but the most fitting memorial to P-22 will be how we carry his story forward in the work ahead. One crossing is not enough – we must build more, and we must continue to invest in proactive efforts to protect and conserve wildlife and the habitats they depend on—even in urban areas.
P-22’s journey to and life in Griffith Park was a miracle. It’s my hope that future mountain lions will be able to walk in steps of P-22 without risking their lives on California’s highways and streets. We owe it to P-22 to build more crossings and connect the habitats where we live now.

Thank you for the gift of knowing you, P-22. I’ll miss you forever. But I will never stop working to honor your legacy, and although we failed you, we can at least partly atone by making the world safer for your kind.

This is SO CUTE!!!
10/10/2022

This is SO CUTE!!!

This is the new reality, I'm afraid.
08/27/2022

This is the new reality, I'm afraid.

People who adopted pets during the shutdown or were working from home and noticed issues with their pets discovered making an appointment to see a veterinarian means you may have to wait weeks.

07/30/2022

The Rodeo: Wild Horse Race -

This is little 3 month old Shelby.  Her parents had just got her Thursday night from a not-so-good environment. By Satur...
07/19/2022

This is little 3 month old Shelby. Her parents had just got her Thursday night from a not-so-good environment. By Saturday, Shelby wasn't feeling very good and by Sunday she had the dreaded vomiting/diarrhea. Parents brought her into the clinic today and, sure enough, parvo test positive. Very listless and lethargic. Parents scraped together $200. Shelby is hospitalized and on IV fluids and other supportive care medications. Shelby's parents are devastated at how ill she is and that they do not have enough money for the entire bill. With as sick as she was when brought in today, I'm anticipating a two night hospitalization stay.
If any of you would be able to help Shelby's parents out with the rest of their bill, that would be so much appreciated! Usually a two-night parvo hospitalization is around $600. And, of course, I'm staying with her all night. Thanks so much and don't forget to share!!! 🐾💖🐾

Well folks, we're finally open. Not yet finished with the inside work but, I couldn't go any longer. July 1st would have...
07/01/2022

Well folks, we're finally open. Not yet finished with the inside work but, I couldn't go any longer. July 1st would have been a full 7 months that we would have been closed. We HAD to open.
I also want to say a huge THANK YOU to all our clients who stuck with us and had words of encouragement. These past 7 months have been hell for me and there were times I thought of not continuing. The stress was incredible. But, your kind words of encouragement kept me going. Thank you, again!
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VM is fixed. CRAZY!Our VMs were being routed to the Coos Transit place! WTF? I called them last night and left a VM! 😆No...
06/11/2022

VM is fixed. CRAZY!
Our VMs were being routed to the Coos Transit place! WTF? I called them last night and left a VM! 😆
Now, here's the best news. The plumbers and electricians finally came and did their parts. Now, the contractor can finish! Getting excited!

If any of you were calling the office today and left a voicemail, it did not happen.  I noticed when I got here today at...
06/11/2022

If any of you were calling the office today and left a voicemail, it did not happen. I noticed when I got here today at noon that there were no VMs which is very odd! Not a single VM got captured. So I called and left a test message...nope, no message. DFN has been trying to figure it out for an hour now.
So Sorry.

UPDATE:We are now completely out if the Stephens St. building. Remodeling construction has started at the Sutherlin loca...
05/03/2022

UPDATE:
We are now completely out if the Stephens St. building. Remodeling construction has started at the Sutherlin location (1000 W Central Ave).
Our target time for re-opening is the end of this month.
I am at the Sutherlin location M-F, 1pm-5pm until we open full time.
Again, thank you all for your patience!
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Just want to give you a heads up: We'll be moving our phone and internet system to the Sutherlin location tomorrow (4/28...
04/27/2022

Just want to give you a heads up: We'll be moving our phone and internet system to the Sutherlin location tomorrow (4/28) after DFN finishes their install. Phones may be down for Thursday.

I replied this to someone on Facebook who I felt needed to know the whole ridiculous story of why we are not open yet. T...
04/15/2022

I replied this to someone on Facebook who I felt needed to know the whole ridiculous story of why we are not open yet. Then, I thought that you all should have it, as well:
Hello, please accept my apology for anyones inconvenience. We wound up in an awful situation after moving to a new location in Roseburg.
We moved to a new location the first week of January due to landlord increasing our lease to $6000/mo. This new location just off Stephens St. turned out to be, what I call, building from hell. Not necessarily the building itself, but the owner. He used another building's address on our lease. It turned out that the building we moved into doesn't have an address. So, with a lot of back and forth with this new landlord and City Planning (who, by the way, was WONDERFUL) we tried to get this new landlord to do what he was supposed to do. By February 1, it was obvious we had made a huge mistake by leasing this building. We had to get an attorney involved and look for another building to move to. It had taken us 3 months to find the one off of Stephens and it took us another 2 months to find the one in Sutherlin. Not my choice but no other place available in Roseburg that had what we needed in a building; enough space, parking, and affordable rent. Because the building in Sutherlin was not set up as a vet clinic, we are needing to do some renovations before we can open.
That's the whole sordid story. You have no idea how much these events have effected me. I'll leave it at that. Thanks for reading.

Hello! I need to ask forgiveness for not replying to some of your voice mails. The truth is, I can't keep up with them. ...
04/13/2022

Hello!
I need to ask forgiveness for not replying to some of your voice mails. The truth is, I can't keep up with them. Even with answering the phone the 5 hours I'm in the office M-F, I wind up with 35-40 voice mails each day. While we are down, I'm the only one answering phones. It's not just a matter of answering and being able to give a yes or no answer. If you know me, you also know that I take as much time as needed to listen to your pet's issue and try to find a solution or even give you a reference if he or she needs to be seen before we will be open again. You can always send me a message via Messenger on this page.
Really, I'm doing the best I can.
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03/31/2022

Hi everyone!
We signed our lease today on a building in Sutherlin. Address is 1000 W Central Ave. (Yippee! It has an address!) It's located next to the Dollar Tree.
We'll be starting a bit of interior remodel then, clinic set up. I will keep you up to date on timing for opening. Thank you for your patience. I have a ton of voicemails on our phone that I'm trying my best to keep up with. I'm the only one on the phones. Please accept my apology if I haven't gotten back to you.

03/24/2022

We're signing a lease today for a new location in Sutherlin. We'll still need to do some remodeling before opening with full services. The new location is 1000 W Central Ave.
We are still filling prescription refills and answering questions. I will ask that if you call and leave a voicemail, please be patient with me. I am the only one returning calls.
I'll keep you all posted with our progress!
And...a big thank you for the support we've been getting.
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03/24/2022
02/19/2022

We gave our current landlord until yesterday, Feb 18, 2022 to get his act together and work with the city planning dept regarding the addressing issue on the building we're in. He has done nothing. We have pulled our permit application and will be moving to another location. We are entering into negotiations for another building. In the meantime we will still be at the location where we are now. We did need to get an attorney involved with this crazy situation.

Hello friends,I'm posting this in light of inaccurate rumors circulating about our move to a new location.First and fore...
02/06/2022

Hello friends,
I'm posting this in light of inaccurate rumors circulating about our move to a new location.
First and foremost, I want to say that, the Cow Creek Tribe has been one of the BEST landlords anyone could ever ask for. Our moved was prompted by an increase in our lease payment over a 3-year time frame. There were no surprises.
We found a building to move to that needed some interior remodel to make it a vet clinic. Unfortunately, due to an addressing issue with the building that the landlord is "fighting city hall", our permit is on hold until that issue is resolved.
Now, here's more misinformation that needs to be cleared up: ALL staff has been paid in full for hours worked.
Because of the delay our current landlord has created with the addressing issue, all current staff has gone on unemployment.
I hope this clears up any questions about our move.
I will be keeping you informed on a regular basis.

01/22/2022

(January 21, 2022) By Melissa Tritinger I just watched a horse die. Panicked, afraid, desperate for escape: terror-filled emotions trapped both the horse and myself in those moments.

01/04/2022
01/01/2022

Hi Guys,
Today a patron of SUSIE'S CLOSET mistakenly took a jacket off of a rack in an area where the employees of the clinic sometimes hang their jackets (not in Susie's Closet) She took one of our employees jackets and purchased it.
Dean is really distraught about losing his jacket. He saved for months to buy a good winter coat.
The patron paid with a credit card so we do have a name. PLEASE, Christina Fugate Hatcher, please return the jacket with the fur around the hood.
Thank you

Hey guys,I'm Sophia and I did one of the craziest things I've ever done in the short 3 years on this earth! I chewed on ...
12/18/2021

Hey guys,
I'm Sophia and I did one of the craziest things I've ever done in the short 3 years on this earth! I chewed on a bottle of ibuprofen and then ATE the pills! Lots of them! GEEEZ, you know it's a life-threatening situation, right? Well, my dad got me to ULVS (we live in Medford) and they got started on me right away. Well, I was in kidney failure and had bloody stools. Overnight with a IV catheter and lots of IV fluids (3 liters) and stomach meds.
Bloodwork today (24 hours later) showed significant improvement of my kidney values and I get to go home!!!
So, here's the hard part. My dad had $35 to cover the exam after gas money to get to the clinic. Dad needs help paying the rest of my bill if anyone can help. Our balance is $486.90.
If you can donate, great! If you can't, would you share this post? Thank you so much!

Address

1000 W Central Avenue
Sutherlin, OR
97479

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 12pm
1pm - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 12pm
1pm - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 12pm
1pm - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 12pm
1pm - 5pm
Friday 8am - 12pm
1pm - 5pm

Telephone

+15416723161

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