Monday, March 30, 2015

Major grant to MSU veterinary college benefits shelter medicine

Office of Public Affairs News Bureau (662) 325-3442 Contact: Karen Templeton March 31, 2015
 A $300,000 Humane Society of the United States grant announced Monday [March 30] will provide continuing support for the popular traveling service program of Mississippi State's College of Veterinary Medicine.
The major donation by the Washington, D.C.-based non-profit organization will help cover numerous
Dr. Phil Bushby
university expenses incurred as the college's mobile veterinary clinics provide professional services to 18 North Mississippi animal shelters. Supported entirely by grants and donations, the student-staffed, faculty-supervised clinics spay and neuter homeless animals.
Dr. Phil Bushby led in establishing the traveling clinic program. Now a professor emeritus and former...read more