Summary
Organization name
Rez Vet
2025
Tax id (EIN)
33-4820367
Category
Animal-Related
Organization Size
Small Organization
Address
P.O. Box 61Clifton, CO 81520
CO, US
NM, US
AZ, US
Each month, Rez Vet brings free and low-cost veterinary care to some of the most underserved Native American reservation communities in the country through our mobile clinic program. During these three day clinics held in local chapters houses on the reservation, we are able to serve hundreds of people and pets, offering life-saving vaccines, preventative medicine, and treating sick and injured dogs and cats. In doing so, we are helping to ease the financial burden of our clients as well as bringing a much-needed service to areas that lack access to veterinary care.
Rez Vet believes in collaboration and, with the assistance of tribal leadership, we pinpoint the communities that need our services most. We also work with local leaders and Community Health Representatives at each chapter house site to identify Elders and other community members who need veterinary services but are unlikely to be able to transport their animals to our chapter house locations. For these clients, we bring veterinary care directly to their doorsteps during home visits. In this way, we are able to reach the pet owners who otherwise would have no access at all to veterinary services.
Our clients on the Navajo Nation live in a geographic area the size of West Virginia where there are only three veterinary hospitals to treat companion animals such as dogs and cats. With 35% of the population living below the federal poverty level, one in three lacking basic amenities such as running water and electricity, and only one in six having access to a working vehicle, traditional veterinary care is out of reach for the majority of our clients. Our clinics are the only veterinary care many of the pets we treat each month have ever received.
We are in the process of expanding our services to include spay and neuter surgeries during our monthly mobile rez clinics. Spay and neuter services prevent countless animals from being born into suffering, disease, and death. We are looking forward to being a part of the solution for Native American reservation communities.
Rez Vet believes in collaboration and, with the assistance of tribal leadership, we pinpoint the communities that need our services most. We also work with local leaders and Community Health Representatives at each chapter house site to identify Elders and other community members who need veterinary services but are unlikely to be able to transport their animals to our chapter house locations. For these clients, we bring veterinary care directly to their doorsteps during home visits. In this way, we are able to reach the pet owners who otherwise would have no access at all to veterinary services.
Our clients on the Navajo Nation live in a geographic area the size of West Virginia where there are only three veterinary hospitals to treat companion animals such as dogs and cats. With 35% of the population living below the federal poverty level, one in three lacking basic amenities such as running water and electricity, and only one in six having access to a working vehicle, traditional veterinary care is out of reach for the majority of our clients. Our clinics are the only veterinary care many of the pets we treat each month have ever received.
We are in the process of expanding our services to include spay and neuter surgeries during our monthly mobile rez clinics. Spay and neuter services prevent countless animals from being born into suffering, disease, and death. We are looking forward to being a part of the solution for Native American reservation communities.
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Mission
We strive to expand access to veterinary care and pet wellness resources across underserved tribal lands in collaboration with Native American communities and in a manner which honors local culture, promotes community resiliency, and strengthens the human-animal bond.
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Clifton, CO 81520