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Pets In Need Delivers Medical Aid To Stockton Animals

  •  Rich Ibarra 
Thursday, July 9, 2020 | Sacramento, CA
Pets In Need

Pets In Need staff offer free veterinary care and food supplies to homeless people and their pets in San Francisco's Tenderloin district.

Pets In Need

COVID-19 has not only been hard on people, but on their pets as well. 

Christine Worrell is homeless and living in a tent with her constant companions, two small service dogs named Lucky and Sephora.

They’ve come to Pets in Need at the Gospel Rescue Mission in South Stockton for vaccinations.

“She’s had all of her shots she just needs a rabies up-to-date,” said Worrell. “I had her since she was in her mama’s womb.”

Pets In Need visits Skid Row in Los Angeles. The mobile relief effort is traveling to Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Stockton, Modesto and other parts of California to help the animals in need of services and supplies through mid-July.Pets In Need

Pets in Need operates out of a 38-foot RV, which started traveling in mid-May to California cities. It offers free veterinary care mostly aimed at homeless people like Jennie Garza. Her dog is suffering from a nose infection.

“Most of the vets in Stockton right now aren’t taking people in, and yeah, they’ve gone up in their pricing and everything else and when you’re homeless, you have problems there,” Garza said.

Dr. Amanda Howland’s company is paying out of its own pocket for the service. She spends several days in different cities in the poorest part of town.

Pets In Need helping an animal patient in San Francisco's Tenderloin district. Organizers say the project was developed in response to COVID-19 because homeless people had even fewer resources and their pets were in a very vulnerable position.Pets In Need

“Most of the people we see simply can’t afford a vet under any circumstance,” said Howland. “They feed their pets ahead of themselves. They do everything for their pet but it’s too much of a stretch.”

Howland says people have waited in line for as long as seven hours in some cities.

And they’re doing it all for their pets, like Christine Worrell and her two dogs.

“Alright, let’s go with the easiest one, the easiest one is the very skittish one,” Worrell told veterinarians. “She has anxiety issues.”

Pets in Need will operate at the Gospel Rescue Mission at the cross streets of E. Church and S. San Joaquin Streets in South Stockton between 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday.

Pets In Need helping an animal patient in Modesto. The mobile relief effort offers free veterinary care including vaccines, flea and tick preventatives, deworming, and general checkups.Pets In Need

The mobile relief effort is driving to Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Stockton, Modesto and other California cities. They hope to help more than 1,000 animals with services and supplies by the middle of July.


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Rich Ibarra

Contributing Central Valley/Foothills Reporter

As the Central Valley correspondent, Rich Ibarra covers San Joaquin, Stanislaus, and Merced counties, along with the foothill areas including Tuolumne and Calaveras counties. He covers politics, the economy and issues affecting the region.   Read Full Bio 

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