CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A shipping container may look out of place on the grounds of Peewee’s Pet Adoption World & Sanctuary along Saratoga, but Debbie Hammond with South Texas Animal Rescue (STAR) said the organization is ready to put it to good use. That's because inside the shipping container is a vet clinic ready to be used!
"We will get the supplies we need and finish building it out as soon as we get the vet which I’m hoping will be no later than may if I could get a vet tomorrow it would be built out in the next ten minutes literally,” Hammond said.
Hammond's STAR group submitted the winning application for the first-ever mobile vet clinic. It was built and designed by Texas A&M-College Station students as part of the university's service project called BUILD.
The university has been building mobile medical clinics inside shipping containers for years often sending them to third-world countries around the globe. Texas A&M School of Veterinary Medicine's Dr. Leslie Easterwood told 3NEWS that the college's veterinary program recently asked for one to be constructed just for animal care.
"We of course are fully behind it," Easterwood said. "We had been wanting to do such a concept for quite awhile and the cards just all kind of aligned out and came together with this project.” Dr. Leslie Easterwood, Texas A&M School of Veterinary Medicine
STAR does have another mobile clinic but because of the huge number of stray dogs and cats we have they needed and wanted to do more.
"Our current clinic we have is busy we are a very high volume spay and neuter clinic we will do 25 to 30 surgeries every day and we are open four days a week and our goal is to hit a hundred a week,” Hammond said.
Now that STAR has the clinic it now needs to find a vet to do those surgeries. The A&M vet school is about to graduate 175 of its students and hopefully at least one of them would like to help man the vet clinic.
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