Mayhew International to Deliver Training to Tbilisi Animal Shelter
Official press release
A team from The Mayhew Animal Home, an animal welfare charity based in London, is visiting Tbilisi on May 10-11, 2016 to provide veterinary training and shelter management advice.
The training will provide insight into pre- and post-operative care, quarantine, protocols and techniques for improved animal handling, asepsis, efficient sterilization techniques and pain management. Implementing these best practice methods significantly helps to control animal discomfort during surgery, the risk of complications post-op and minimises the risk to the animals before, during and after spay, neutering and general surgery.
Additional special focus will be made on cat care in the shelter environment. The two-day training sessions are a continuation of Mayhew’s work in Tbilisi. For the last four years The Mayhew has sent a vet team to Tbilisi to provide veterinary training to Georgian vets, Tbilisi authorities, local NGOs and the Agrarian University.
The Mayhew’s International Veterinary Training Programme (IVTP) aims to teach, train and empower local vets and nurses to improve animal health and welfare standards.
The Mayhew’s veterinary team at our London based Community Clinic is highly experienced in neutering, shelter medicine and care of welfare cases. We share veterinary techniques and protocols using the resources that are available, as well as encouraging care and compassion for the animals through every step of being looked after and treated.
Up until the end of 2015, Mayhew has welcomed a total 32 vets from many countries including several Eastern European countries, Russia, Georgia, India, Japan, Malaysia, Peru and Tanzania. During their 10 day visit to Georgia, the Mayhew International team will also be returning to the Municipal Shelters in Rustavi & Gori to provide some additional training to the vet teams there, as well as to the Free Agrarian University Veterinary Clinic in Tbilisi to conduct the Mayhew International’s Spay Day. This charity event will include spaying and neutering surgery for dogs, who are brought to the Clinic from local animal welfare groups and individuals involved with monitoring street and free-roaming dogs in the local communities.
Press and media are invited to come and visit Spay Days on May 7 at the Agrarian University Vet Clinic, address: David Aghmashenebeli Alley #240 and on May 10-11, 2017 from 11 am at the Tbilisi Municipal Shelter for Animals. Address: 17A AleKsandre Tvalchrelidze St.