We are in a veterinarian shortage crisis and need more available veterinarians.  We can't serve the needs of our community due to this shortage.  We have waiting lists for spay neuter appointments and basic wellness appointments.  We prefer to send our adoptable animals out already spayed and neutered before adoption but are having trouble doing that.  We are unable to handle the requests to help get outside cats and kittens spayed and neutered which will lead to even more cats and kittens being abandoned or taken to shelters and pounds in years to come. Please consider amending 18VAC150-20(2) to require documentation of active practice from two years to one of the last four years prior to application.  Every veterinarian that begins to practice again will help to make a difference.  Thank you

I support this petition amidst the veterinarian crisis.

FCHS is a wonderful low cost animal clinic and is in need of a veteranian to help them continue.to serve the people of Franklin county as well as surrounding counties.  There are a lot of people that cannot afford full price veteranian care for their animals. Please consider changing the requirements from 2 years to 1 year.  Thank you so much! 

I support amending this regulation so our clinic will have more opportunities to help pets.

Thank you, 

Kristie Blake 

Shelter veterinarians are desperately needed across the country. This amendment will remove additional barriers for animal shelters seeking veterinary help. 

We are in need of Veterinarians at theFranklin County Humane Society, in order to operate to full capacity at our clinic, so we can offer low cost services to our community which is needed.  Spay and nuetering is a necessity to control the population of cats and dogs.  Wellness visits are also important, many cannot afford full service Veterinary Clinics for these procedures. Please consider amending 18VAC150-20-120(2).  Thank you.

The veterinary field and rescue world has spiraled post Covid. We are in a crisis with too much supply and not enough demand with the amount of pets in need. Pets are losing their lives due to something as simple as space in shelters. Adoptions are backlogged waiting for pets to be altered. Many pet owners are on waiting lists for veterinary services and spay/neuter. We desperately need more veterinarians to help with spay and neuter. Please consider removing this barrier. Thank you for your consideration of amending the current regulation from two years to one year.

Since we have been in business since 2020 in Franklin County, qualified veterinarians have been hard to find. Once I found a good one, she is spread so thin, that even emergencies have to wait. Therefore, calves have died waiting for professionals to show up. Farmers know some methods to try to save their animals but rely on the professionals when we are out of our league. Please consider shortening the process for veterinarians that have licenses outside of our state that would like to practice in Virginia (within reason).

As a hands on farmer, it is heartbreaking to watch my animals die while waiting on a Vet to come during after hours and sometimes even during the day. It seems like all my hard work and energy as well as money is just lost. We live in such a big county that vets are unable to cover most of it on a daily, less known weekly basis. Farmers hands are tied waiting for qualified help to come to our rescue. Help this ruling to go through for the sake of our livestock not having to suffer when we could possibly have qualified vets in our area (which is a big county).

Too many companion and farm animals are dying for no reason other than the shortage of veterinarians in and surrounding our area.  Please help drastically reduce the deaths by amending the regulation in place from two years to one. Thank you for your consideration.  

FCHS is in dire need of a full time veterinarian. There are so many pets in need that need our help.   I support amending the current regulation. 

Please support legislation to help our stray and homeless animals. In Franklin County our vets are bursting with appointments that mean ALL animals are currently waiting on care. Our Humane Society and local shelter is truly suffering. 

I support the amendment to help alleviate the shortage of veterinary professions available to provide support for rescue organizations such as Franklin County Humane Society and Planned Pethood.    The FCHS staff work tirelessly to help abandoned and injured animals in need.   Please allow them to be more effective in their mission in providing them the ability to hire veterinary professionals that are here and willing to help.   

I am a foster fanily for the Franklin County Humane Society and they are in desperate needs to more veterinarians for vet care. They are overwhelmed by the amount of animals in need of spay and neuter and other vet care, and this impacts animal quality of life, animals being adopted, and staff morale. Please ammend so that the pets in our community can receive more care. 

There is a severe shortage of veterinary care in this area and this has caused backups on spay and neutering resulting in shelters that are already overburdened. The shelter workers so everything that they can to help these animals and they are drowning. They need this so baddy. Think of these poor suffering animals that need care and cannot get it. Please pass this endorsement. 

Please consider changing the requirements. They really need the help so that all the animals can be cared for!!

This shelter does amazing work and is so woefully short-staffed! Changing the veterinary time requirements would do a world of good for this amazing organization that not only saves animals in our area, but works extra diligently to help animals in other parts of the country.

In order to help our community we have to have veterinarians, please consider amending.

I am a foster for Franklin County Humane Society. They are wonderful people but have been drowning in pets in need for far too long. Covid put an immense strain on an already ongoing problem.  Please amend the regulation from two years to one year, so that they can get some much needed help. 

The surrendered animals in this community need veterinary care asap. Please.

Thank You!

I support revising the amendment to require one year within the last four, instead of two. There are thousands of helpless animals within our county who deserve to have someone advocate for them. With the change of this amendment, those animals will get the help they need. The veterinarian crisis right now is tough, but with your help we can make it a little easier. 

Please consider amending the current requirement. 

Veterinary support

     I support the amendment of this bill. This will open doors and remove barriers that exist that prevent us from finding the help we need at the humane society. We have pets waiting to be spayed and neutered so they can be adopted and clients pets waiting for updates on vaccines.

   Personally I work with TNR in the area trying desperately to help with the over population of cats in the county. We are having to travel 30 miles+ to have these cats neutered...that is only if that facility has vet coverage as well to work us in for an appointment.  The effects of the shortage of vet care is everywhere.

     It really is desperate times in the vet field and the only ones suffering are the animals. If there is a way to help this situation, then it needs to be done. Our shelters and humane society's can not take much more.

   Please amend this to make a difference. 

I support this petition to help the stray, rehomed, traumatized, and helpless animals in Franklin County, VA. Visit a shelter andfollow any animal welfare website on Facebook. Shelters are full and this is with many families fostering pets. Some of the animals' health is unfathomable. Please get educated on what is happening in Central, VA, especially in Franklin County, to these innocent animals. We need help. Thank you, Darlene Didrickson 

Please help Franklin County Husmanr Society get the  vet care they are needing.

I am a foster and volunteer at Franklin County Humane Society (FCHS) and I support changing the regulation for veterinary practice, as specified in this bill, from 2 years to 1 year. There is a several-month wait for getting veterinary care in this region and the animals served by FCHS deserve better. We cannot spay & neuter pets as efficiently as needed with the current regulations and this means more unwanted & unnecessary litters. We believe that changing the regulations slightly will significantly help remedy this problem. 

Veterinary support is needed and this will aid that need. 

Franklin County Humane Society needs a full-time veterinarian. There are so many animals in our area that need our help. 

We are in desperate need of veterinary care for all animals in our shelters.  I support passing this amendment.

Please help support our animals.

This organization is critical to saving the lives of so many animals in the broader community. These people do amazing work. 

Adding my support for the amendment mentioned in this petition!

Support amending 18VAC150-20-120(2) to require documentation of active practice to one year.

FCHS is in desperate need of a veterinarian.  They provide help for so many in Franklin County and are in need of support. They also pull animals from other counties to help with over-population of county run animal shelters thus resulting in saving lives of numerous dogs and cats.  This helps the county run animal shelters look good because the number of euthinizations decrease.  Please support this much needed service which will help the whole state of Virginia in the long run. 

I support the petition for veterinary services for FCHS 

We would appreciate the consideration of this petition. Veterinary help is needed in the rural area that the organization is located in. Thank you

I support more vet care for FCHS

FCHS is need of a veterinarian to help support the care providing for the animals and people of the surrounding communities.

Please help FCHS with veterinary care. 

Urgent help is needed at this shelter, please consider these amendments.

Please consider making this amendment. Veterinarians are crucial in this rural area - as there as so many animals in need.

Please pass this so that the shelter can have veterinary care that is desperately needed for the shelter which is bursting at the seams. They don’t meet to worry about vet care for the animals in addition to all the other stresses. Please help!!!

I support amending 18VAC150-20-120(2)

The Vet shortage is seriously impacting local efforts to reduce overpopulation. We need to allow trained professionals to resume practice if possible. 

I support the amendment! The shelters are full and there are so many more animals that need help. This will help local places like FCHS give veterinary care to animals in our area. The more they can spay/neuter, the less overpopulation there will be. Thank you! 

I support amending 18VAC150-20-120(2)

Our shelters need all the help they can get  residual veterinary