Chula Vista Animal Care Facility has hired a full-time manager in Sept, 2009. Mariya Anton is a long-time City of Chula Vista administrator with 18 years of experience with the CV library system. With HEART's help she has redecorated and repainted the entire cattery, making perches for kitties, providing all new large cat trees, beds, comfy cushions, and adding air filtering systems to all group cat rooms to lower disease exposure.
Mariya Anton with her foster kitten
CVACF and H.E.A.R.T strive to educate the public to be responsible pet owners by spay/neutering their pets. H.E.A.R.T. sponsored 2 free cat spay/neuter events on the "Neuter Scooter" this year and spayed/neutered 100 Chula Vista cats at no cost. The neuter Scooter (sponsored by SNAP - Spay Neuter Action Project) operates a low-cost, mobile clinic that is in Chula Vista twice/month. Call SNAP for more information at: (619) 525-3047.
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Pima Medical Institute has started a new veterinary medical program to train student to become Registered Veterinary Technicians. Their new campus is next door to the City of Chula Vista’s Animal Care Facility. The partnership forged between the CVACF and Pima will ensure quality care of the animals and professional training for the students. Pima and the City of Chula Vista have done a remodel of the medical, surgical and isolation rooms. They have installed a state-of- the art x-ray machine and Pima students will get the hands-on training they need so that the animals will not have to be transported “off site” to have quality x-rays taken. The new dental machine will allow students to learn hands-on teeth scaling & polishing. Pima has also provided blood analysis machines so the animals can have their blood drawn, and checked when needed, on site, as opposed to sending it out to a local lab. All-in-all things are looking up for the “residents” of the Chula Vista Animal Care Facility
NEW PIMA BUILDING FOR TRAININGVETERINARY ASSISTANTS
