🚨 IMPORTANT NB VET UPDATE NEAR THE BOTTOM!

Josie is a senior sheep with mobility issues that can’t be corrected due to delayed care before rescue. If Josie had received intervention at a much younger age, she likely would be walking as well as Rosie is today.

Her treatment options are limited due to her age and the time she’s spent living with permanently bent joints. However, Josie has made meaningful progress since her arrival, thanks to physiotherapy, mobility aids, individualized care, and housing adjustments.

She’s settled into sanctuary life quite well and has even started hanging out for a visit! Previously, she didn’t trust people or want anything to do with them.

Early this week, little lady Josie was weighed before receiving dewormer medications, after her routine fecal results came in.

What’s important about that last sentence is two things.

1) For Josie to receive the best possible care, she needs a knowledgeable and available veterinarian. Thanks to the provincial veterinarians out of the Sussex office, she has a team of them.

2) For those veterinarians to have real data and accurate results to base their recommendations on, they need a reliable laboratory to send samples to and, when needed, diagnostic experts to interpret the results for more advanced cases.

While routine fecal tests aren’t an advanced case by any means, the lab results and the recommendations on next steps provided by a veterinarian who knows Josie, her medical history, and has treated her since day one of arrival are critical to caring for little ladies like Miss Josie.

🚨 This afternoon, a bill to reverse the cuts to Provincial Veterinary Services is to be debated. 🚨

What the cuts do is remove the essential infrastructure that keeps the lab and vets in place in NB. While we, and everyone else who uses these services, pay per service each and every time, the province is cancelling the services altogether without a reasonable deadline to put other options in place.

The debate is expected to start between 3 and 3:15 pm and continue for approximately 2 hours.