Round-the-clock care when your pet needs it


The Cape Animal Medical Centre provides round-the-clock veterinary care when your pet needs it most, to all of Cape Town and beyond.  The CAMC provides complete veterinary services at all hours, with passion, pride and commitment.  The All Hours Clinic (After Hours Veterinary Clinic and Day Clinic)) is staffed by a veterinarian and veterinary nurse 24 hours a day to attend to any veterinary medical situation, be it routine vaccination or a dire emergency, at any time, to the greater Cape Town.  The Centre is also home to qualified veterinary specialists and veterinarians with special interests to optimise the treatment of your pet.  We understand that your pets are precious members of the family and should be treated as such.




We now also have premium pet food (Hill's, Eukanuba, Vet’s Choice and Royal Canin) as well as flea treatments and dewormers available on sale 24 hours a day.





The Cape Animal Medical Centre not only provides an encompassing general veterinary service at all hours, but provides 24 hour emergency veterinary care when your regular veterinarian may not be available, striving to be an extension of the services your regular veterinarian provides.  The Cape Animal Medical Centre also provides specialist support should you or your regular veterinarian request referral.




To avoid stress and ensure comfort of our patients and their owners our building is airconditioned and odour controlled, the examination tables are soft-topped and all kennels have underfloor heating.  Patients are cared for by veterinary nurses and sleep on blankets and/or cushions, never newspaper.






Our Services include:

Complete companion animal care

Specialist and Referral Services

Internal Medicine/Specialist Physician

Dentistry and Orofacial Surgery

Acupuncture and Homoeopathy

Ophthalmology




IN THE NEWS



Recently the terrible plight of a dog that was buried alive at a local school - and then dramatically saved in the nick of time - made headlines.  Watch this uplifting video about how the debilitating injuries Warrior suffered are now receiving proper care at Mdzandza Veterinary Clinic in Khayelitsha and here at the Acuvet Clinic at the Cape Animal Medical Centre:



Newspaper article:

http://www.dieburger.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/VIDEO-Hond-leer-loop-danksy-akupunktuur-20111109


Warrior's video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pQVtuuraLJo


IFAW Media Release

Dog Buried Alive at Khayelitsha School

 

(Cape Town, South Africa – 20 October, 2011) – In one of the worst ever reported cases of animal abuse in Cape Town a dog has been rescued after being buried alive in a pit at a Khayelitsha School.

 

The Mdzananda Animal Clinic in Khayelitsha, received an anonymous tip-off at 08h30 this morning (Thursday) to say that janitors at the Luhlaza Secondary School had been spotted digging a hole on the perimeter of the school sports field, and then burying a live dog in it.

 

Veterinarian Dr Edson Man’Ombe and animal welfare carer Lazola Sotyingwa, immediately rushed to the school and apprehended two janitors on the school field. The men initially claimed the dog was dead, but on further questioning admitted the animal was still alive when they buried it – they said one of the school’s senior supervisors had told them to get rid of the dog as it was causing a nuisance by hanging around the school’s classrooms.

 

Man’Ombe and Sotyingwa then instructed the men to open the pit, and the dog, a dalmation-type cross breed, was found barely alive at the bottom of a hole between one and 1,5-metres deep. It was rushed to the Mdzananda Animal Clinic and is now in the care of professional veterinarians. The dog is also partially disabled probably as a result of earlier injuries from a motor vehicle accident.

 

Mdzananda, which is the only full-time on site veterinary facility in Khayelitsha, is a project of the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW- www.ifaw.org).

 

“This story is tragic and, as awful as this story is, without access to animal welfare these are the kinds of desperate measures people resort to when they have nowhere to turn for help,” said Jane Levinson, clinic coordinator at Mdzananda. “We need more animal welfare support and humane education initiatives in our townships and schools.”

 

“None of this excuses the decision of a senior, and presumably educated and intelligent supervisor, to instruct his juniors to dispose of a problem dog in such a cruel fashion,” she said. “We can only hope that none of the learners at the school were exposed to this horrific event.”

 

The names of the janitors and that of the supervisor who allegedly gave the instruction to them to dispose of the dog are known to Mdzananda and a case has been opened at the Lingelethu Police Station in Khayelitsha.

 

Luhlaza High School situated in Mkahabeni Road, Village 1 North, Khayelitsha is part of the Khanya Project of the Western Cape Education Department, which seeks to raise the level of mathematics and science expertise among its learners. According to the Khanya Project website, the school has a relationship with a partner school in the United Kingdom.

 

About Mdzananda Animal Clinic

Mdzananda Animal Clinic was founded in 1996. It provides the only permanent, on site animal welfare support to Khayelitsha outside Cape Town, and provides primary veterinary healthcare to dogs and cats in the community. For more information visit www.mdzananda.co.za. Follow us on Facebook.

Contact:

Jane Levinson (Mdzananda Animal Clinic) – Tel: +27 82 83 548 8277. Email:mdzananda@absamail.co.za

 



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