Fetch Pet Insurance Announces California Expansion of Nonprofit Partner Project Street Vet to Serve the Watsonville/Santa Cruz Area

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. , July 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Fetch the most detailed family pet insurance coverage service provider in North America and Project Street Vet, today revealed the launch of a brand-new Street Vet group to support the Santa Cruz location with the addition of Dr. Vanessa Padilla as the lead veterinary volunteer.

Dr. Padilla will make sure the shipment of complimentary veterinary care such as examinations, vaccines and life-saving surgical treatments to the animals of individuals experiencing homelessness and/or housing vulnerability in the neighborhood. Dr. Padilla is presently a vet at veterinary center in Watsonville and volunteers at regional animal shelters in the Santa Cruz location. She signed up with the Project Street Vet group after experiencing the work of PSV co-founder Dr. Kwane Stewart in Southern California and has actually supplied care to more than 30 animals throughout her Project Street Vet pilot training.

This marks the 5th city growth and 8th lead veterinarian volunteer released with assistance of Fetch as the title sponsor and the 2nd brand-new neighborhood released in 2023 following the effective fundraising efforts of the inaugural Fetch 101 Donations Campaign at the close of 2022.

“Project Street Vet, in cooperation with Fetch, is dedicated to supplying complimentary veterinary care to the animals of individuals experiencing homelessness. We think that every family pet should have access to quality health care, despite their owner’s housing circumstance,”  said Dr. Kwane Stewart, who developed PSV in 2020. “Thanks to the profusion of assistance we saw throughout the 101 Donations Campaign and the devotion of Dr. Vanessa Padilla, we can now extend our services to this neighborhood and make a positive effect on the lives of animals and their individuals.”

“Just over a year back, we ended up being the title sponsor for Project Street Vet and we could not be more happy to support their development. From a one man objective to now serving 5 neighborhoods throughout the nation, their group of devoted volunteers continues to broaden and they have actually already supplied care to as lots of animals in the very first 6 months of 2023 as they did all of in 2015,” said Hilary Palotay, Director of Corporate Responsibility at Fetch Pet Insurance.

Since January 2023 Project Street Vet has actually served more than 800 animals and has an active group of 8 Street Vets and more than 120 volunteers throughout 5 neighborhoods in California, Georgia, and Florida.

To learn more about Project Street Vet and how to offer or contribute, go to: https://www.fetchpet.com/psv

To learn more about Fetch Pet Insurance, go to: https://www.fetchpet.com/

About Project Street Vet
Founded by Dr. Kwane Stewart, Project Street Vet is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit public charity that supplies complimentary veterinary care, treatment, and assistance to the animals of people experiencing homelessness and/or housing vulnerability. According to the State of Homelessness: 2021, it is approximated that over 580,400 individuals are experiencing homelessness in America, with an approximated 10% – 25% having a family pet.

Dr. Kwane is a graduate from the prominent Colorado State University Veterinary Program and is a California practicing vet for over 22 years. Many years back, throughout a five-year period as a shelter vet in a having a hard time, depressed location of California, Dr. Kwane started to form a real understanding for those that have a hard time to manage healthcare for their animals. Over the previous 10 years, Kwane has silently offered his time taking a trip city streets of California offering complimentary veterinary services to the animals of people experiencing homelessness. Dr. Kwane approximates that he has actually taken care of numerous animals doing his street veterinarian work prior to 2020, when Project Street Vet was formed. Today, he continues to lead the Project Street Vet objective with his inspiring message of “no judgment, simply help” and hopes the growing group can continue to discover and look after these households.

About Fetch Pet Insurance
Fetch is a leading tech-enabled family pet health business committed to assisting family pet moms and dads provide their cats and dogs a longer, much healthier life. It’s why we provide the most detailed family pet insurance protection in the U.S. and Canada. It’s why we support Project Street Vet – a non-profit that supplies complimentary veterinary care to the animals of individuals experiencing homelessness – in addition to contribute countless dollars to life-saving animal adoption shelters. And it’s why we’re happy to reveal our most recent development, the Fetch Health Forecast. This ground-breaking innovation integrates expert system, veterinary care and scientific findings from over 800,000 dogs and 500+ types to anticipate a dog’s future health at an 85% self-confidence level. This extremely customized report consists of easy-to-follow suggestions to keep your dog healthy and empowers family pet moms and dads to have actually notified discussions with their veterinarian specialists. Pet moms and dads can discover Fetch on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube or follow us on Twitter. For more details about Fetch, go to https://www.fetchpet.com/ or call (866) 509-0163.

Fetch insurance coverage are administered by Fetch Insurance Services, LLC (d/b/a Fetch by The Dodo, Fetch by The Dodo, LLC in Michigan & New Mexico, and Fetch by The Dodo Insurance Services, LLC in California)[1] and financed by XL Specialty Insurance Company, a Delaware Corporation, or AXIS Insurance Company, an Illinois Corporation, in the U.S. and AXIS Reinsurance Company (Canadian Branch) in Canada. Fetch is a Warburg Pincus portfolio business.

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