The new owners of Knoxville Animal Clinic, (LCDR) Steve Skinner, DVM, and Cathryn (Tinsley) Youmans, DVM/MPH, are celebrating their recent veterinary clinic purchase by launching a contest to help determine Knoxville’s favorite family pet species.
A full-service veterinary practice, KAC is located at 5312 Homberg Drive in Bearden. It is the former practice of now-retiring Ted Davis, DVM, who served the veterinary community 30 years. To mark the new practice management, KAC is running quarterly contests to benefit local animal groups/charities via its website, www.KnoxvilleAnimalClinic.com.
Its first contest is to help determine Knoxville’s Favorite Family Pet Species. Participants click on cat@KnoxvilleAnimalClinic.com to vote for cats, OR vote for dogs by clicking on dog@KnoxvilleAnimalClinic.com by Dec. 10, 2010.
The staff will tally the votes and proclaim 2010 as “Year of the (Dog or Cat)”…then plans to dress in the appropriate (winning) animal apparel, delivering meals over the holidays via the “Feed A Pet” program run by the Knox County Office on Aging with UT’s College of Veterinary Medicine.
Dr. Skinner said anyone is welcome to cast website votes “to help determine if Knoxville’s families prefer dogs over cats, or vice versa. I’d encourage other local animal groups and breed-specific rescue organizations to make their voices heard, too. Then we’ll honor the poll’s outcome…and the more votes we get, the more elaborate our dogs or cats costumes will become.”
“Is it a scientific poll? Heck no. But it’s a great way to spread awareness of a worthy local program that assists animal lovers who have minimal resources,” he said. Hill’s Pet Nutrition, Inc. donates the pet food. To learn more about qualifying for the “Feed A Pet” program, contact the Knox County Office on Aging.
“Next quarter, when the clinic conducts another poll, local animal groups linked with the species winner of this current contest can be considered as recipients of our first quarter charitable efforts. The Knoxville Animal Clinic staff votes on which program or charity becomes our quarterly emphasis," he said.
Dr. Youmans explained UT’s “Feed A Pet” program “is a community program where UT veterinary students and staff regularly deliver pet food to animal owners, many of whom are not only on limited incomes, but are also elderly. In some cases, they live alone, with their animals as their only companions.”
“Because many students leave for the holidays, our clinic hopes to fill in the gap with some deliveries,” she said. “The staff’s excited to kick off this new era of business by giving back to the animal community…and we’ll have some fun wearing our “winning animal apparel” as we go from place to place,” she added.
 
 

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