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AHNA Gives Back
Help AHNA Help Homeless People and Their Pets
Animal Hospital of North Asheville is participating in Project Connect for the Homeless. Project Connect is an annual one day event that is held to provide onsite barrier-free services to the homeless population of Asheville-Buncombe while facilitating community awareness and participation. AHNA will be on hand to provide what care we can to the pets that belong to homeless people.
Would you like to help? You can donate dog and cat food!
Please bring donations to AHNA. We will be collecting donations of dog and cat food through September 9th. September 9, 2010 will be our last day to collect!
For more information on Project Connect, CLICK HERE
Pet Food Recall
Recently, Procter and Gamble, owner of Iams and Eukanuba, issued a recall on certain dry pet foods. AHNA immediately identified and contacted all owners of pets who we knew were fed these dry foods to warn them of the recall.
Below you will find a link with more information on the recall as well as a list of UPC codes included in the recall.
http://www.iams.com/iams/en_US/data_root/html/recall_message.html
Our Client Care Team
Jill joins our Client Care Team - a team with combined experience at AHNA of 88 years!
Cathy, April, Kalon, Lynne, Norma, and Sheri want you to know that they have a fantastic addition to the Client Care Team. You may already have seen her smiling face if you have entered through our cat door in the last few weeks. Her name is Jill and she has fit right in with our competent, intelligent, warm and friendly team at our front desk. Jill loves animals (of course!) especially her own darling Westie, named Riley Wallace, and her cute bunny, named Bailey. Jill is a graduate of both North Buncombe High and the University of Tennessee and lives in Weaverville with her husband, Jared. When she isn’t at work she still loves helping animals, and she enjoys painting, hiking, spending time with her family, as well as decorating and fixing up her house. Please welcome her to our team when you see her!
Jill has joined six other team members with an average of almost 15 years each at Animal Hospital of North Asheville. We hope Jill
will be here a long time, too! With so much experience, each person has the ability to perform any task needed, but each one has an assigned role each day such as scheduling appointments, facilitating client communications with the veterinarians, and answering questions on the phone (Lynne, Sheri, and April most days), greeting you and processing your information both as you enter and leave (Norma, Kalon and Jill most days). When not helping clients, they do so much to try to make AHNA and your experiences here special. Cathy, who supervises the team, may be seen in many different places on any given day and also plans and coordinates the team and education meetings that occur on Tuesdays. Yes, each team member is smart, capable, and careful, but what really makes them special is that each one really does care about each and every person and pet.
Bark for Life
Asheville Dogs Are Raising Money to Fight Cancer!
Animal Hospital of North Asheville Thanks Them with a Sponsorship
On August 7, 2010 there will be a parade of dogs in Asheville who are giving their all to fight cancer as they participate in the American Cancer Society’s Bark for Life. Animal Hospital of North Asheville is a sponsor of the event to show our appreciation for these dogs getting out to fight cancer in people! We also appreciate the American Cancer Society for their recognition of the important role that companion animals play in our lives when they say:
Canine companions represent unconditional love, joy, security, compassion, and no judgments of human abilities or
appearances. Bark For Life is an irresistible way to “take a bite out of cancer”, smile, and make new friends canine & human.
The American Cancer Society Bark For Life, “Bark For Life” (ACS BFL) is a full American Cancer Society Relay fundraising event that honors the care giving qualities of our canine “Best Friends”. Monies raised contribute to and are included in the annual Relay For Life event total.
Canine Caregivers are Canine Companions, Guide Dogs, Service Dogs, Rescue Dogs, Therapy Dogs, Police Dogs, Cancer Survivor Dogs, and Diagnostic Dogs, who with their owners, are joining the American Cancer Society as Relay teams and participants to celebrate cancer survivorship, to honor people lost to cancer, to fundraise in support of cancer research, education, awareness, patient services, advocacy, and to help eliminate the suffering that cancer causes worldwide.
Visit: www.relayforlife.org/barkasheville to learn more about the event and to register.
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