$510,000 grant helps address shortage of shelter veterinariansJanuary 27, 2023Shelter pets are soon to have access to timely and essential veterinary care with the funding of a shelter medicine internship program.
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UF College of Veterinary Medicine spends $6 million to expand its facilitiesMarch 4, 2019University of Florida (UF) College of Veterinary Medicine is expanding its facilities with a new $6-million addition, which will help to better train its students and offer primary care and dentistry services. Built a decade ago, the current building offers 100,000 sf with the new space adding about 12,000 sf. It will provide more space for primary care and dentistry services, and will also contain offices for administrative personnel. The ground floor of the original facility now has more room for emergency and critical care services. Before construction of the new building, primary care and dentistry service clients shared an entrance and lobby with emergency clients. The university says when pet patients are stabilized, they can be seamlessly transferred to primary care in the new building.
Dog defies death three times after treatment at UF Small Animal HospitalMarch 21, 2018Rupert, a young dachshund run over by a golf cart in Ocala, Fla., last month, is now living a charmed life after being resuscitated three times by University of Florida (UF) veterinarians. Rupert was discharged Feb. 27 from UF's Small Animal Hospital after being treated for eight days in the hospital's intensive care unit. His owner, Jamie McAllister, couldn't be happier. "To say Rupert is a miracle is an understatement," McAllister said. "If it weren't for the doctors and staff at UF, I don't know where we would be." McAllister said Rupert had jumped off a friend's golf cart while she was driving and rolled under one of the vehicle's tires. She immediately took him to her veterinarian, who advised her that Rupert be taken to the UF Small Animal Hospital due to the severity of his injuries. "His veterinarian called me in Gainesville to say Rupert's family wanted to bring him to UF for treatment of severe pulmonary contusions, but he was not stable enough for transport," said Ashley Allen, DVM, a clinical assistant professor of emergency and critical care at the UF College of Veterinary Medicine. "So we teamed up," Dr. Allen said. "Dr. Gareth …
