Medical Support

What opportunities are available to help improve the medical condition of the dogs?

Many of the dogs that come to Saving Grace need medical attention.  Here’s what you can do to help out at the Farm!

• Intake: Work with a team of people who welcome dogs to Saving Grace and provide initial evaluation and treatment.
• Medical volunteers: Work with the medical team in preparing medications for dogs, administering preventatives and evaluating and treating other needs.
• Daily medical assistance: Work with the medical lead to do routine walk throughs, filling meds as decided by the medical lead and recording meds on medical sheet. This will be a set schedule (can be flexible) Monday through Friday between 1-5. 
• Panacur team: Prepare and administer deworming meds to the dogs on a defined schedule, and update medical records. All dogs are routinely dewormed and the panacur team works three days (Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays) on the morning shift every week. Each week there is a list of dogs to get panacur. 
• Preventatives team: Manage and administer monthly preventative medications and update medical records. Each week the Preventatives team prepares a list of dogs that are due for monthly flea/tick and heartworm preventive medications.
• Paperwork team:  Create and manage paper and digital files and medical sheets to record each dog’s medical history. There are routine meds to be recorded on medical sheets, files to be made and put away. Computer work as needed into Saving Grace tracking systems.
• Wellness checks – Assist the Saving Grace team during vet visits to prepare the dogs, take notes on the vet evaluations and communicate next steps for the health of the dog.
• Heartworm treatments – Work with the Saving Grace team to track, coordinate and administer heartworm treatments for the heartworm positive dogs in our care.
• Vaccines: Assist the medical team with admistering vaccines and updating medical records. Each dog adopted from Saving Grace needs a set number of vaccines given within a certain time period before they are ready for adoption.