Virginia veterinarian heads to Ukraine to help animals in refugee camps

ANNANDALE, Va. (WWBT) – A Virginia veterinarian is taking her experience the world over to Ukraine the place she plans on serving to the animals caught within the war-torn nation.

NBC4 says Dr. Courtney Katsur, with the Columbia Pike Animal Hospital in Annandale, has packed her baggage filled with medical provides to assist sick, wounded and malnourished animals that had been separated from their homeowners or pressured to be left behind because the starting of the conflict.

In line with NBC4, when Katsur noticed pictures of what animals throughout the nation had been going via she had an urge to assist.

“The entire atrocity of the conflict has been troublesome to look at. It’s troublesome to look at realizing I can’t do something,” she stated to NBC4 reporter Solangi Sosa.

Then Katsur realized that she as a veterinarian may do one thing to assist.

“Watching all of those folks flee with their pets, how vital their pets had been to them, after which these those that left and felt so terrible that they left their pets,” she instructed NBC4. “And I spotted that I do have a spot to assist.”

She plans on touring to the Ukraine and Romania border for 2 weeks the place she’s going to lend her expertise to Breaking the Chains and Warpaws. The joinr organizations have been volunteering because the begin of the battle and have gone proper into areas destroyed by the conflict to rescue animals.

Katsur’s greatest fear for now’s that she might not be capable to save as many as she would really like as soon as she will get there.

The veterinarian is accumulating donations to go in direction of wanted provides, journey prices and medicines that she’s going to convey along with her in accordance with NBC4. She will even assist coordinate adoptions and reunite pets with their homeowners.

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