Educating in an Emergency
The Texas A&M Veterinary Emergency Team serves the state through response, but also through its outreach efforts, dedicating a portion of its resources to traveling across Texas to help communities develop their own disaster preparedness plans. Story by Chantal Cough-Schulze Every month, the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences’ (CVM) Veterinary Emergency Team (VET) […]
VET, AgriLife Return Home From First Out-Of-State Deployment
After almost a month in Butte County, California, members of the Texas A&M Veterinary Emergency Team (VET) and AgriLife Extension Service are beginning their journey home today. During the 29-day deployment, the team’s first outside of Texas, 12 members of the VET and seven AgriLife Extension agents from across Texas worked at the Del Oro […]
Texas A&M Veterinary Emergency Team, AgriLife Deploy To California To Offer Wildfire Relief
The Texas A&M Veterinary Emergency Team (VET) and agents from the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service are traveling to California to offer medical and oversight relief to shelters housing around 700 companion animals displaced because of the Paradise wildfires that began in November. Team members departed from College Station on Thursday morning for the team’s […]
VET Assists Search Teams Following Junction Flooding
When local authorities were unable to find four of the people who went missing following severe weather that led to flooding along the Llano River, the Texas A&M Veterinary Emergency Team (VET) was called upon to join the Texas Task Force 1 (TX-TF1) water rescue squads in Junction, Texas, in the search efforts. Twelve VET […]
Girl Scouts have ‘Sweet’ Visit with VET
Each year during Girl Scout cookie season, the Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council offers a “virtual cookie share,” through which cookies are donated to the council’s pre-determined choice. Scouts also collect donations in person and may choose to donate to a “brick and mortar” organization. This past cookie season our council designated the virtual […]
VET Answers the Call to Help with Early Morning Accident
In the wee hours of the morning on July 26, Texas A&M Veterinary Emergency Team (VET) director Dr. Wesley Bissett received a phone call asking for the VET’s assistance with an accident on Highway 21 involving 73 calves. When Bissett and Texas A&M VET safety officer Norberto Espitia arrived on the scene, they were met […]
VET Exhibits Banfield-Donated Truck at VMX
Members of the Texas A&M Veterinary Emergency Team (VET) travelled more than 1,060 miles to Orlando Feb. 3-7 to show off its newest medical platform, donated to the team by the Banfield Foundation, as an exhibitor for the Veterinary Meeting & Expo (VMX), Feb. 3-7. The VET was one of 5,014 exhibitors in 727 booths […]
Texas A&M’s Veterinary Emergency Team Assists in Hurricane Harvey Search and Rescue
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The Texas A&M Veterinary Emergency Team (VET) is offering medical support to urban search-and-rescue task force canines and other injured or stranded animals at the request of multiple areas along the Texas coastline that have been negatively impacted by the extreme flooding resulting from Hurricane Harvey. A team of four […]
VET Brings Hope to Communities Impacted by Harvey
In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, cities along the Texas coast have been left ravaged, with many of their citizens stranded in the midst of the storm’s extreme flooding. As support from the urban search and rescue task forces and other state and national entities ramped up in response, the Texas A&M Veterinary Emergency Team […]
Through the Fire and the Flood–The Texas A&M VET Serves Texas Communities
Early June 2016 brought devastating floods and tornadoes to southeast Texas. In emergency situations such as these, it is important to have safe and efficient evacuation plans prepared for our communities, including our family pets and livestock. Just like people, animals need care and shelter when a disaster strikes, and the Veterinary Emergency Team (VET) […]
