Companion Animal Clinic Foundation

21/08/2024

22/05/2024

We love mobile unit days!

Our team is visiting Richmond County Animal Shelter - RCAS today providing spay/neuter surgeries to their adoptable animals! Beautiful day for mobile surgery!

24/04/2024

Great to see the Sandhills Spay Neuter Veterinary Clinic SNVC mobile surgical unit out doing spay and neuter surgeries!

12/04/2024

It should be a gorgeous day for The Sandhills Dog Fair tomorrow! Well behaved/socialized dogs are very welcome 💚 Don’t miss out!

TOMORROW!! This is a map of just a small section of the Village to show you how close you are to things so that you can plan on parking accordingly! The Dog Fair is located at The Village Arboretum beside Town Hall (395 Magnolia Rd.). Rassie Wicker Park is a 3-minute walk across the street, Cannon Park is a 7-minute walk away, and the downtown Village of Pinehurst is only a 10-minute walk away!
The Linden Lodge Dog Dash starts at Tuft's Memorial Park and winds through The Village and ends at the Sandhills Dog Fair.
Just me mindful when you park that you are not blocking businesses, driveways, or people's property. Pay attention to NO PARKING signs and LIMITED TIME PARKING SIGNS especially in the Downtown Village Area. There is a huge lot next to Tufts Memorial Park for a nice stroll through the Village to the event.
💩Be sure to clean up after your pup while you make your way to the event!
Limited Handicap Parking will be available in front of Town Hall.
NO GOLF CARTS ARE PERMITTED IN THE EVENT SPACE!
See you all tomorrow!!!

10/04/2024

Don’t forget to come to The Sandhills Dog Fair on Saturday!

08/04/2024

Saturday, April 20 - support the Sandhills Spay Neuter Veterinary Clinic SNVC and rock out to DEPARTURE: The Journey Tribute Band at the airport!

01/04/2024

Be sure to put the April 13th The Sandhills Dog Fair on your calendar! The Sandhills Spay Neuter Veterinary Clinic SNVC mobile unit will be there!

30/03/2024

Today, the Board of the CACF had a VERY fruitful strategic planning session to get organized around our continued work to reduce the number of dogs and cats that are euthanized in central North Carolina by enabling affordable spay and neuter surgeries. Great teamwork, everyone!

27/03/2024

Please spread the word - the Sandhills Spay Neuter Veterinary Clinic SNVC is hiring! It’s a wonderful place to grow your professional skills.

We are growing! Come join our team! We are hiring experienced veterinary full-time assistants and/or veterinary technicians, and a part time client service representative. Applicants must have at least 1 year experience in veterinary medicine. Please apply at our website, www.spayurpet.org

21/03/2024

DEPARTURE - The Journey Tribute Band fundraising concert take 2! Get your tickets now for this great event on Saturday, April 20 — benefitting the Sandhills Spay Neuter Veterinary Clinic SNVC and the Moore County Citizen’s Pet Responsibility Committee. Don’t stop believin’!

15/03/2024

We are so incredibly proud of this great team! The Sandhills Spay Neuter Veterinary Clinic SNVC completed their 100,000th surgery on a feral cat who is now ready for adoption! They are making a huge impact on the unwanted pet population of central North Carolina. Congrats team! 🐕🐈🐕‍🦺

13/03/2024

06/03/2024

What an incredible morning! The mobile surgical team of the Sandhills Spay Neuter Veterinary Clinic SNVC was down at Caring Hearts for Canines providing low-cost spay and neuter surgeries to this wonderful dog rescue. Because of the ease of access to the mobile unit, the animals could go directly from their living quarters into surgery, then right back to their familiar environment to recover. Now they are ready to be adopted! Today is also our FIRST-EVER 3-DOCTOR DAY—we were able to provide 45 dogs surgeries at the SNVC clinic in Vass and 12 in the mobile unit.

01/03/2024

It’s World Spay Day🩺

Here are a few fun facts about spaying your pet:
✔️ Spayed dogs live 23% longer than unaltered females.
✔️ The cost of spaying an animal is less than the average cost of caring for an accidental litter.
✔️ Medical evidence shows that females spayed before their first heat cycle are typically healthier.
✔️ On average, 1 in every 4 dogs brought into animal shelters across the nation are purebred.
✔️ For every human born in the US, 45 cats and 15 dogs will be born, meaning that there simply aren’t enough homes for the amount of animals out there.
✔️ Spaying will not affect a pet’s natural instinct to protect the home or family. This is determined more by genetics and environment rather than hormones.
✔️ Cats and dogs take just 2 months to birth a litter, so they can have 2-3 litters per year.
✔️Spaying one dog or cat can prevent over 3,000 offspring over a 5 year period.

There are low cost spay/neuter options throughout NC, and if you don’t want to worry about the cost of finding an animal and altering them on your own, we have plenty of adoptable pets that come spay or neutered and vaccinated! Photo by HLB Photography ❤️

19/01/2024

Wonderful to see the Sandhills Spay Neuter Veterinary Clinic SNVC Mobile Unit in action! 21 feral cats removed from the reproduction machine. Great work, team!

19/01/2024

Check out PS Profiles in this month's PineStraw Magazine, featuring three members of the wonderful team at the Sandhills Spay Neuter Veterinary Clinic SNVC — Practice Manager Erin Maurer and SNVC Veterinarians Dr. Kristan Riley and Dr. Carl Thomas!

PS Profiles January 2024 Home

18/01/2024

Wonderful article in The Pilot Newspaper about West Pine Middle School's Sindy Murphy's "ROAR" class raising money for CACF. Thank you to these young philanthropists! The funds will go to very good use.

Just before Christmas, a group of altruistic pet-loving seventh graders at West Pine Middle School initiated, organized and implemented a fundraiser for the Companion Animal Clinic Foundation in Southern Pines.

17/01/2024

Take advantage of this great deal from the Sandhills Spay Neuter Veterinary Clinic SNVC! Please share 🐶 🐈‍⬛

*** 1/18/2024 UPDATE** AT THIS TIME, THIS PROMOTION IS CLOSED. WE HAVE RECEIVED AN OVERWHELMING AMOUNT OF REQUESTS. WE CURRENTLY HAVE OVER 250 PEOPLE ON OUR CALL BACK LIST. PLEASE BE PATIENT AS WE RETURN THOSE CALLS AND ASSIST EACH CLIENT.

**UPDATE 1/17 3:30PM** WOW!! What a response! We are so happy to help all of you and your pets! We have received over 100 phone calls already since this post! Please be patient with us as we call each and everyone of you! Thank you for your support!

YOU ASKED, AND WE LISTENED!!

🥳🥳FREE MALE SURGERIES IN JANUARY!!! Please read below for information about this promotion. Unfortunately, our staff will not be able to respond to all posted comments. Thank you! **Limited appointments available**

January FREE male surgery information/requirements:
1.) Appointments are first come first serve. Leaving a voicemail is strongly encouraged! This ensures you are "in line”. All inquiries will be addressed in the order they are received. If we are unable to reach you, we will move to our next request. **Limited appointments available**
2.) A NON-REFUNDABLE $25.00 appointment deposit is required when scheduling your appointment.
4.) You DO NOT need to live in Moore County to use this promotion.
5.) Male patients MUST be at least 12 weeks old and weigh at least 2 lbs. Males under 1 year of age MUST have BOTH testicles descended for surgery.
6.) This promo is for MALE DOG AND CATS ONLY.
7.) Pets MUST be less than 75 pounds. If you schedule for this promotion and your male dog is OVER 75 pounds, you will be required to pay the full cost of surgery.
8.) We will update this post as appointments fill!

29/12/2023

YEAR-END RECAP: The Sandhills Spay Neuter Veterinary Clinic SNVC Heads Into 2024 Stronger Than Ever!

by Bobbie Mudge, President CACF

Our strength comes from our past: the remarkable people who had the vision of lessening the endless stream of unwanted puppies and kittens and lightening the burden on rescue groups and the county animal control agencies. This fall, we lost our cherished founding member, Dr. Joe Curry. Twenty years ago, Joe, along with Dr.Tom Daniel and Deborah Wilson, had the vision of creating a low cost spay and neuter clinic which would be run as a not for profit business and would be supported by a 501c3 foundation. Deborah created the Companion Animal Clinic Foundation, Tom brought the community together, and Joe pulled himself out of retirement, rolled up his sleeves, and began running a clinic. Dr. Joe Curry was more productive and creative in his seventies and eighties than most of us are in a life time. We love you and miss you, Joe.

Another source of our strength has been our steadfast veterinarians who have done surgical work on a per diem basis, Dr. James Mackie, Dr. Doug Meckes, and Dr. Janet Sizelove. Dr. Mackie and Dr. Meckes follow Dr. Curry’s reluctance to accept retirement as they bring their surgical skill and energy to our clinic. Dr. Sizelove has been both our non paid veterinarian owner and our per diem surgeon. We cherish these dedicated veterinarians who have answered our call for surgeons. And the glue that holds us together is always our dedicated Practice Manager, Erin Maurer.

The clinic is going into 2024 with two young, local, full time veterinarians, Dr. Kristan Riley and Dr. Carl Thomas. Look for their profiles in the January issue of Pinestraw Magazine.

Our grant writer, CACF Board member Kate Holmes, has put in another year of finding grants, which help to keep the prices of surgeries down while improving the quality of the equipment. This year, she discovered a new grant which is funded by Duke Energy and administered by Moore County Chamber of Commerce, and she applied for funds to support clinic staff’s continuing education. Andrew Stevens came to the clinic a year ago as a kennel assistant, and has already finished his first year in accredited veterinary technician online program. At the end of the two year program, he will sit for the NC State Veterinary Technician exam to become credentialed RVT (Registered Veterinary Technician). Clarrisa Garcia joined the SNVC in 2021. The course in which she is enrolled will result in a certificate of excellence in veterinary reception. The program outlines veterinary terminology, client relations, and problem solving, finances, programing, among other skills. Clarrisa is bilingual, and her ability to put axious pet owners at ease is amazing.

Our staff is great, the grant writing is successful, and the clients and rescue groups are lined up at the clinic’s doors. The one thing we don’t have under control is the relentless rise of prices for our surgical supplies. The cost of surgical gloves has more than doubled. Our fall fundraiser was rained out, and we are asking our loyal supporters to remember us in their end of year giving. Every litter not born is a one that doesn’t need to be rescued.

Help support our efforts by donating before the end of 2023: https://companionanimalclinic.org/donate

20/12/2023

Moore County's West Pines Middle School’s 7th grade teacher, Cindy Murphy, has taught her students the art of giving. Her class was given the assignment of researching local charities, selecting one, and raising money for their selection. The Companion Animal Clinic Foundation is honored to be the organization they selected. Last week, Tom Daniel, DVM, owner of the Sandhills Spay Neuter Veterinary Clinic SNVC, and Bobbie Mudge, President of CACF, were invited to the school to receive the check from them. Thank you to these smart students!

19/12/2023

We hope everyone has a wonderful holiday break! 🎄🕎🌟

15/12/2023

The amazing team at the Sandhills Spay Neuter Veterinary Clinic SNVC knocked it out of the park this year, completing over 7,000 low-cost spay / neuter surgeries! They are on track to hit our sun total goal of 100,000 surgeries in 2024. What a great team of skilled veterinarians, vet techs, and support staff. We are so grateful for and proud of you!

04/12/2023

Holiday canine neuter special at the Sandhills Spay Neuter Veterinary Clinic SNVC! Please share with someone who may be interested.

** UPDATE AS OF 2:00PM 12/5/2023** ALL APPOINTMENTS FOR THIS PROMOTION HAVE BEEN FILLED!** Please continue to watch this page for additional promotions coming soon!

**UPDATE: PLEASE READ! Thank you for the outpouring response! We are working hard now to contact everyone who has left a voicemail as of last night. Unfortunately we are unable to respond to all comments. Below are some common questions that may help!

1.) Appointments are first come first serve. Leaving voicemails are encouraged! This way you are "in line". All inquires will be addressed in order. If we are unable to reach you, we will move down the list of calls.
2.) You can request an appointment through our website at www.spayurpet.org. Please notate in the additional notes this promotion.
3.)Deposits for appointments are still required, and the deposit policy remains in place. Deposits are refundable or can be used for additional services if you follow the deposit policy in place.
4.) You DO NOT need to live in Moore County to use this promotion
5.) Male canines MUST be at least 12 weeks old and weigh at least 2 lbs. Males under 1 year of age MUST have BOTH testicles descended for surgery.
6.) This is for MALE dog neuters
7.) Pets MUST be less than 75 pounds. If you schedule for this promotion and your male dog is OVER 75 pounds, you will be required to pay the full cost of surgery.

28/11/2023

It‘s Giving Tuesday! Help us continue to make a difference by making spay and neuter surgeries more affordable. Visit https://companionanimalclinic.org/donate to donate today.
Sandhills Spay Neuter Veterinary Clinic SNVC