Mission Rabies

Countdown to Mission Rabies Tanzania 2021

Regular readers of my blog know that even though I retired from veterinary practice three years ago, Iโ€™ve remained active in the veterinary community.  I still author the bimonthly โ€œThe Vet Is Inโ€ column for Catster magazine, and I still pop into Dr. Soboroffโ€™s practice, New York Cat Hospital, every now and then to visit him and Dr. Sheheri and…

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World Rabies Day 2020 & Mission Rabies – Your Donations Help. Your Donations Matter.

Today is World Rabies Day.   With a mortality rate of 99.9%, rabies is the deadliest disease in the world.  Human cases of rabies are rare in the U.S., but in underdeveloped parts of the world (Asia and Africa in particular), rabies kills approximately 60,000 people annually, the majority being children under the age of 15.  Most cases result from…

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Pandemic Ponderings about Pets

Last week, I read a Washington Post article about how there has been a huge surge in dog adoptions since the pandemic began.  According to the article, shelters, rescue groups, pet stores, and breeders are having a hard time keeping up with demand.  Rescue groups are getting dozens of applications for individual dogs.  People have put themselves on waiting lists…

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CFA MEOWY HOUR on ZOOM - Wednesday Happy Hour with Cats 6:00pm

The Cat Fanciers’ Association Presents “MEOWY HOUR” (Wednesdays at 6pm EST) – Join me! I’m on the July 29th Show

JOIN CFA EVERY WEDNESDAY ONLINE FOR MEOWY HOUR AT 6PM EDT/3PM PDT JULY 29, 2020Dr. Arnold Plotnick Shares His Tales About Cats Around the World ๐“๐Ž ๐‰๐Ž๐ˆ๐ ๐“๐‡๐„ ๐…๐”๐, ๐‚๐‹๐ˆ๐‚๐Š:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82809871152Or, watch live here on Facebook. <- This is also where all the shows are saved, so you can watch the recorded show any time. ๐…๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ Arden Moore, Casey the Pet Safety…

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Mission Rabies Ghana – Chapter 15: My final post from Ghana

Mission Rabies Ghana, February 2020; what an adventure!! Let’s wrap this puppy up with a blog post. The tentative schedule this morning was: breakfast at 8:00, departure from Lake Bosomtwe at 9:00.  I packed my suitcase last night except for the few things I would need in the morning, so I was pretty ready to go.  I set the alarm…

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Mission Rabies Ghana – Chapter 14: Mission Accomplished!

There was a feeling of excitement in the air this morning as we all convened for breakfast.  Today is the day we wrap up our project.  At breakfast, we were assigned our given areas that we were going to cover, and we were also given an important statistic, namely, how many dogs we needed to vaccinate in our area in…

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Mission Rabies Vaccinated Puppy Dog

Mission Rabies Ghana – Chapter 12: Piase and Surroundings

Today was a nice, mellow day.  We were assigned a village called Piase.  Last year, the static clinic that they set up in this area was very busy.  Sure enough, our morning was busy as well, but again, in a very feast-or-famine manner.  Weโ€™d sit for 20 minutes with absolutely nothing to do, and then three people would appear, one…

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Mission Rabies Ghana โ€“ Chapter 11: Getting in the Groove

Tuesday has always been the most nondescript day of the week, and this applies to Ghana as well, apparently, because today really bordered on being โ€œroutineโ€. I guess Iโ€™ve really grown accustomed to things here, because objectively it was amazing as usual.  I had an egg sandwich for breakfast, and then went to base camp as usual to load up…

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