CVC Clinics

Lowveld Vet@Nsikazi

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Khumba Ncila is a NPO that focuses on helping the neighbouring communities of the Southern Sabi Sand with their animals. They address animal welfare issues in the community, through educating the people on proper animal care, enabling a better quality of life for these animals.

Veterinary care is provided throughout these communities by aiding with vaccinations, sterilizations and any health issues found, such as injuries, septic wounds, mange, tick infestations and diseases. Any orthopaedic procedures are referred to Lowveld Vet@White River.

The purpose is to continue this help and support through the neighbouring villages of the Southern Sabi Sand which will, in the long term, prevent the issue of disease in the livestock and domestic animals. This will have an added benefit in preventing the spread of disease into the neighbouring Sabi Sand Wildlife area.

Msholozi is the rural community bordering White River. We assist the community by doing vaccinations and primary animal health care.For the past 3 years we have assisted this community by doing free sterilisations on Mandela Day ( about 60 each year).

Mainee's Montagu Vet CVC

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Mainee's Montagu Vet was opened in October 2021 in the premises of Montagu Nursery. It was called Mainee's after the late Charmaine Sinovich who established the first care facilities for pets of the indigent population of the area. Her son Peter offered us two rooms in her old home to set up a clinic and operating theatre to continue providing the service to the pets of those who are unable to afford private practice fees. Until now Animals Matter Langeberg had been using facilities in Ashton under the control of Dr Yvonne Robson but the demand for treatments, vaccinations, parasite control and sterilisations was becoming excessive so Dr Colin Skinner set up the clinic in Montagu to help take the load off Ashton and provide a service to the town of Montagu.

Dedicated teams of vets, nurses and volunteers frequently visit the local Ashbury suburb to help care for the pets, with special emphasis on vaccinations, including rabies for all dogs and cats due to the increase in cases of the disease in the Western Cape. Dewormings and tick and flea control are offered and due to the very high incidence of mite infestations, mange treatment is also applied at the time of vaccinating. The team also provides advice on correct nutrition, especially of puppies and kittens and gives out free food samples. At the clinic sterilisation of dogs and cats is done once a week, but the treatment of infections and wounds, surgery of injuries and even some more advanced surgery, including orthopaedics is carried out whenever necessary. Sadly a number of pets have been abandoned, have been badly treated or are too seriously injured to enable effective treatment and require euthanasia and this is done immediately whenever a case is detected.

Due to the very hot summers and the very cold winters this area experiences, AML began providing wooden kennels for the dogs most in need of shelter from the elements in May 2021. To date 74 kennels have been made by a local carpenter, paid by the charity, and the objective is to provide every home in Ashbury, where the dogs are required to sleep outdoors, with a warm and dry kennel. People from other areas are also now asking if they can have kennels for their dogs.

For most of the work we do at Mainee's. we request a donation to cover the costs so we can continue to provide the service to other deserving cases but this is usually inadequate so Animals Matter Langeberg organise public functions and charge an entry fee so that sufficient funds can be raised for us to continue to provide the service. However, running a veterinary surgery is a fairly expensive business and we are constantly in need of funds, equipment, medication and instrumentation to help and we are most appreciative of the donations given by veterinary practices in the area as well as Gauteng, KZN and the Free State. This enables us to continue to provide the service the pets need and that is our main function, to help animals who really do need it, whatever the cost.

Optima CVC

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We strive to educate communities in animal responsibility while also relieving welfare pressure by providing mass sterilisation and vaccination campaigns. We work in rural and township areas across Gauteng as well as Eastern Cape regions, focussing on communities of lowest income. We always involve Veterinary students as well as animal health technicians, to encourage community engagement as future professionals.

We spend hours in schools educating from Gr R ages, teaching empathy and responsibility with the aid of our teaching companion. We believe education and empathy is the key to the improvement of all aspects in life. By paying it forward, we believe we can do our part in making our country an even better place for man and animal.

To show HUMANity towards all living beings, lies in our HUMAN hands…

Pretoria West CVC

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Pretoria West Animal Clinic and Community Veterinary Clinic (CVC) associated with the South African Veterinary Association-Community Veterinary Clinic (SAVA-CVC), was established by the principal veterinarian in April 2021. The purpose of this CVC is to provide basic and quality veterinary services and products to the communities in and around Pretoria West.

This community clinic focuses on vaccinations of pets against important diseases like rabies, parvovirus, and distemper virus, controlling and managing both internal and external parasites, and we also offer basic veterinary treatments.
The community clinic focuses on sterilizing pets to reduce unwanted pregnancies. Most importantly the clinic educates pet owners about the basic health and welfare of their pets. This work is done through collaboration with SAVA and other welfare organizations.

Pyramid CVC

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Pyramid CVC was founded in 2016 in order to assist local communities. Being a smallholding area there are many needy pet owners who live in welfare villages, as well as the Wallmanstal township which has recently emerged. Our clinic has been assisting these people as well numerous welfare organisations like Wollies, Paws Love and the SPCA for many years on an informal basis. Becoming a CVC has enabled us to do this more effectively with backup and resources. Currently we are concentrating our efforts on sterilization programmes for the various organisations and communities. We do suffer from a lack of human resource in the clinic which limits our time available to perform outreach, but it is hoped that this will improve in the future! We are animal lovers and will always do our best to prevent animals suffering.