Veterinary medicine students are heading to northern Saskatchewan this weekend to help control the animal population.
Students from the University of Saskatchewan’s Western College of Veterinary Medicine are in La Ronge, conducting a spay and neuter clinic with the help of volunteers and veterinarians from across the province.
Northern Animal Rescue provides some services to Saskatchewan’s northern communities, but the closest veterinarian to La Ronge lives 250 kilometres away, according to the WCVM.
The college tries to run the spay and neuter clinics twice a year.
Students performed 84 spay and neuter surgeries at last spring’s clinic and examined 74 animals.
