Veterans services and animal services
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The county’s agenda for Board of County Commissioners, Mar 7, 2023
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The county’s minutes for Board of County Commissioners, Mar 7, 2023
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Are you one of the nearly 50,000 veterans who live, work, and play in Pasco County? Our team at Pasco County Veterans Services is here to help you and your family, making sure you receive the benefits you deserve, from filing compensation and pension claims to crisis and aid and assistance. We're here to serve you.
So all of the Veterans Service officers here in Pasco County are retired from the military. We all come from different backgrounds, different branches of the military, but we all bring forth the experience and our expertise just through things that we have gained from our own personal military service.
You should come in and talk to a veteran service officer if you're trying to put together any type of claim that involves the VA.
I just think the team is great. Here, very uh caring, that's for sure. And um, they put their all to help you. You get total. attention from them when you do come in which is awesome.
So I have had veterans that that came in with five dollars in their bank account and once their claims get approved now they're getting a monthly tax-free benefit of over $3,000 a month.
Sometimes we can do it over the phone, we can do it over video, but it's m it feels more personable when you're sitting there across from someone who probably lived the same life you lived and they it's more under more understanding to your needs and your wants.
Give them a call, find out uh if you can come in, have your documents with you, ready to go, and they'll they'll help you.
So I'm hanging out in our medical department today, and we are actually preparing to do some routine surgeries, both for our kittens that are actually moving on to their forever homes. But another thing that we also do while we're here in our medical department is we do also work with several injured pets as well. We have one kitty that's here right now. She actually came in with a partially fractured jaw, and she's actually very, very happy and very sweet. Bilashi's with us, we'll make sure she gets some really good pain medication and getting taken care of. And then when she's ready and feeling good, we'll
make sure she finds her forever home. We also have several kitties that are under medical foster right now. We are actually watching from day to day. She has a little bit of an eye thing going on here, but we're watching her. She's in medical foster right now. And as we go from day to day, medical will decide if she does need to have her eye either removed or if there is more medical treatment that can be offered for her.
So we're hanging out in our treatment area and this is where our animals are anesthesized and then go ahead and prep for their surgeries. So like somebody like this little sweetheart, we would go ahead and maybe working with our medical team and working with them and be having their exams done while we're here.
So not only are we doing surgeries on our kittens today, but we have several dogs that are also going under for surgery as well. One of our pups here she had