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The Society for Animals in Distress

Vorna Valley, Midrand, Gauteng

Animal Welfare

The Paddocks Plot 20
Moerdyk Street
(Entrance is on Anton Hartmann Drive)
Vorna Valley
Midrand
City of Johannesburg
Gauteng
1686
Contact Number
011 466 0261
Contact Number
083 640 8827
Email
[email protected]
Website
http://www.animalsindistress.org.za

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The Society for Animals in Distress provides professional veterinary care that is built on a foundation of focussed animal care education within marginalised communities.

Our formal education programme, launched in 2003, is welcomed in all primary schools within the areas of our operations and is embraced by over 14 000 children per annum. Coupled with the education programme our para-veterinarians deliver peer education to every client. It is estimated that each schoolchild impacts 6 adults with their learning experiences while our peer educators engage with a minimum of 40 adults per day. The reinforcement of animal care education within community homes has seen a marked decline in the common conditions found in animals that are related to poverty. Early identification of illness or notification of animals in distress by the community has significantly reduced rehabilitation costs. Growing human awareness of animal needs and the accessibility of our services ensure that preventative primary veterinary care is sought after and accepted as essential to improved community health. Learning to love, feed, clean and care for an animal and accepting responsibility starts at a young age.

The Society for Animals in Distress provides professional veterinary care overseen by employed veterinarians, veterinary nurses and animal health technicians. We are an organisation mandated to serve the indigent and are accountable for these services to the South African Veterinary Council. Patients receive primary veterinary care from our mobile units which are manned by para-veterinarians. These units service our operational areas daily while severe cases are brought back and admitted to our hospital.

Our mobile unit work within communities provides primary veterinary care; namely, de-worming, vaccinations, tick and flea control and first aid where possible.  This engagement with the communities we serve, initiates a life-long relationship made sustainable through owner responsibility and trust. The value of this relationship investment can be seen in the improved health and well-being of the animals we are privileged to serve. Our hospital treatments cover a spectrum of veterinary procedures that include orthopaedic surgery among others.

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OFFICE HOURS:
Monday to Friday: 08:00 - 15:30

Saturday: 10:00 - 13:00
Sunday: Closed
Public Holidays: Closed

Visits: 2490