GIVE TO FIP RESEARCH
$13,183 raised since Sept., 2016
REVISED DATE: Due to the fires we had to reschedule. See below:
Come hear Dr Kennedy (see biography below) talk about the drug trials out of UC Davis that cured Smokey, the current state of FIP research, and diagnosing FIP. Mingle with adoptable cats at Cat Therapy. Meet Smokey and his 23 housemates at House Of Nekko**. Receive a ZenByCat Tea Set. All this for a $30 donation.
Date: Wednesday, Dec 5 2018
Place: CAT THERAPY
1213 State Street, Suite L Santa Barbara
Please use the link below to book your time preference:
Time: First presentation - 4pm
Time: Second presentation - 6pm
Space is limited so please book early.
For those unable to attend, we plan to record Dr Kennedys talk and post it on our sites. We may also have a FaceBook Live session with Dr Kennedy, depending on interest.
Email peter with questions:
peter@ZenByCat.org
Thank you
Short Biography of Dr Heather Kennedy
Dr. Kennedy is a 2013 graduate of UC Davis SVM. After a first career in retail management, she decided to turn her cat rescue hobby into a career as a feline-only practitioner. At UCD, she was the President of the the Feline Medicine Club, the lone member of the Feral Cat Project, and received several scholarships for her dedication to felines, including the AAFP Outstanding Scholar Award. She was reprimanded by the internal medicine service in 4th year for trying to see all of the cat patients. They told her she would be unlikely to find jobs in which she didn't see dogs. Since graduation, Dr. Kennedy has worked at two very busy feline-only practices in Santa Clarita and Land Park, and is now at a feline-only shelter in Lincoln--FieldHaven Feline Center. She has had the good fortune to have seen thousands of cats in 5 years of practice. One day she did a working interview at VCA LB and saw 7 canine patients. That is the limit of her canine experience. She treated them all like cats and was never asked back.
Dr. Kennedy counts the preeminent FIP researcher, Niels Pedersen, among her mentors, and had the fortune to work in his lab during vet school, doing genetic analysis of FIP isolates. She hoped to be the one to find the source of the elusive gene that cause the mutation of coronavirus to FIP. She did not. Still, one of her proudest accomplishments is having been able to contribute to the published literature on the disease.
Dr. Kennedy's hobbies include helping people find their lost cats, staying current of feline medicine literature, and watching Netflix with her cats. Dr. Kennedy is currently working toward the ABVP Feline Practice board certification, and she hopes to ultimately open her own feline-only practice to serve both owned and unowned kitties in the Sacramento in Yolo County.
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Heather Kennedy, D.V.M.
FieldHaven Feline Center
