Ridgway Animal Hospital veterinary technician Dawn Oliver and her daughter, Payton Pugh, worked with a group of volunteers to spay and neuter animals last month in Colombia. Oliver volunteers once a month to help spay and neuter animals on Native American reservations in the Four Corners region with Soul Dog Rescue, a nonprofit based in Fort Lupton. Photo courtesy Soul Dog Rescue
Ridgway vet tech dedicated to helping animals here, abroad
To say Dawn Oliver is passionate about helping animals would be an understatement. Not only has she worked as a certified veterinary assistant at Ridgway Animal Hospital for 13 years, she uses her vacation time to go help animals in other countries.
Oliver typically spends one weekend a month volunteering with spay and neutering programs on rural Native American reservations in the Southwest, but in February she traveled to another continent to help make a difference in animal overpopulation.
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