Setting Up the Clinic

So, we got back from Asheville Friday night. Early Saturday morning it was time to set up the clinic! All the equipment and supplies were waiting for us. Construction work was complete - well, almost! It was a tremendous team effort getting the place cleaned up and organized and ready for business in a 48 hour period. We had to make do with cage banks stacked on the floor since we didn't receive the castors needed for the mobile platforms.

A special thank you to: Sally Andrews, Kristi Busch, Chris Dysart, Chris Kim, Tracy Kim, Denise McVicker, Jeff McVicker, Rick Olson, Kathleen Olson, Yvonne Rose, Matt Rusnak, Shelley Ryan, David Wemmer, Marilyn Wilfong, Nancy Wolf - and of course, to our staff! A special thank you goes to Dave McCormick as well for getting those cages put together a few weeks after the fact! We could not have done it without your help!

Humane Alliance Training

These are a few photos from our training session at Humane Alliance in Asheville, NC. It was a rewarding, yet long and tiring week getting ready for our hometown opening March 3. (More on that soon!) Asheville is a beautiful place, and the Humane Alliance team is amazing. Our group brought some snow along with it - an unusual occurrence in Asheville! Here we are in class with Dr. Karla Brestle on our first day, and then behind the counter on our last day at Humane Alliance. Humane Alliance routinely completes over 100 sterilizations a day in a space about the size of our clinic here in Tacoma. It's a busy, busy place! This spring they will move into a 13,000 square foot facility with many features in place to train future NSNRT groups.