Welcome! - Updated 01/10/12
Welcome to The Peter Emily International Veterinary Dental Foundation (PEIVDF).
The mission of PEIVDF is to provide advanced veterinary dental services for the benefit of captive exotic animals located in facilities in the US and abroad through an increase in the provision of advanced veterinary dental services and veterinary dental education.
See the recent segment on the foundation on Denver's Channel 7 website. Click HERE to view the video.
Click HERE to Donate to help us continue our work
PEIVDF began conducting Missions in October 2008, first as a private foundation, now as a public 501(c)(3) charity. In just under 3 years, our small charity has:
- Treated 85 animals at 10 sanctuaries during 19 rescue operations:
- lions, tigers, leopards, cougars, jaguars, bears, wolves, hippos, chimpanzees, baboons, and ferrets, to name a few species
- Performed 160 Root Canal Therapies, 76 Extractions, and 19 other procedures
This may seem like a lot of animals and a lot of procedures, but remember, there are more than 400 exotic animal sanctuaries and more than 200 zoos and aquariums in the US and Canada alone. That leaves a LOT of animals in need of dental work! Please help us continue our work by DONATING today!
Need to be convinced about how important dental care is to these animals? Click HERE to read this posting on the Wild Animal Sanctuary's site, reporting how much ColoColo's demeanor and energy level have improved since his root canal.
PEIVDF provides their expert services - and the supplies required in the provision of these service - directly to the animals. That way, PEIVDF's efforts directly benefit each animal on which we work. Facilities as a whole do not receive direct monetary benefit from the provision of PEIVDF services.
MISSIONs: 01/10/12 update! IN SCHEDULING
Upcoming MIssion: March 4, 2012
Pueblo Zoo - CLOSED
PEIVDF has scheduled a mission to a facility new to us - the Pueblo Zoo in Pueblo CO. Our patients will be Barney (Sun Bear), Suzy (Lar Gibbon), Rose (Pygmy Goat), Copper (Meerkat), and Thor (River Otter). As the facility is small, PEIVDF will not require any additional mission workers or students for this misssion.
Upcoming Mission: March 30-April 2, 2012
Exotic Feline Rescue Center - OPEN
PEIVDF will be returning to the Exotic Feline Rescue Center in Center Point IN. We are calling for (4) Tuition for Missions students. Regular tuition for this two-day mission will be $1,500 plus self-paid travel/hotel expenses. Meals during the mission are provided by PEIVDF. If you are interested in applying to attend this mission, please send us an email to missions@peteremilyfoundation.org and mention EFRC in your email.
Upcoming Mission: July 2012
InSync Exotics - IN SCHEDULING
PEIVDF will be visiting a sanctuary new to us - InSync Exotics in Wylie TX. Currently, there are (3) three patients on the roster - two tigers and a lion. If you are interested in attending this mission, please send us an email to missions@peteremilyfoundation.org and mention InSync in your email. As soon as a firm date is set we'll post the dates, patients, and tuition costs here, as well as send out a newsletter.
Are you AVDC or FAVD or a repeat mission attendee? Contact us about possible discounted or waived tuition rates, or click HERE for more information.
To apply to attend our upcoming missions, if you haven't already done so, please fill out your completed VDWoB Worker Questionnaire, and email it to missions@peteremilyfoundation.org. Please indicate which mission you are applying to attend. If we already have your VDWoB app, just send an email to the address above indicating which mission you are interested in attending.
Completed Mission: October 21-24, 2011
Exotic Feline Rescue Center - COMPLETED
PEIVDF returned to the Exotic Feline Rescue Center in Center Point IN on October 21-24, 2011 to work on seven of the resident cats. Sheba, a 16 y.o. Puma, lions Ms. T and Cubby, and tigers Calisto, Dusty, Raja Boy, and Felix. To read more about this mission, click HERE to be taken to the Exotic Feline Rescue Center mission page.
For more information on these and other upcoming missions, please visit our Current Rescues page.
Several other missions are in the process of being scheduled. To be among the first to know when locations and dates are set, keep checking our site and sign up for our eNewsletter. To sign up, enter your email address in the "Join our eNewsletter" field in our page header, select Rescue Ops, and submit. That's all there is to it.
New and Noteworthy
PEIVDF is now on Facebook! Click on the link in the header to be taken to our Facebook page. Here, we'll update you with breaking news, interesting day-to-day tidbits about the foundation (if any!), and anything else we think might be of interest. Visit the page often to keep up to date with PEIVDF.