TEARS Veterinary Clinic
Providing veterinary care to companion animals in need.
What we achieve, together!
The TEARS Veterinary Hospital treats around 17,000 animals per year, and operates from Sunnydale, Cape Town providing a vital welfare service to the Southern Peninsula’s most under resourced communities as a means of providing veterinary treatment and rehabilitation support to injured, abandoned, abused and homeless companion animals.
Together
we CAN make a difference.
TEARS currently operates with 3 vets and 7 Animal Welfare Assistants.
- An average of 1057 animals are rescued every month ~ being brought into the TEARS Veterinary Clinic for medical emergencies, admissions and/or treatments.
- An average of 500 animals are sterilised per month.
- An average of 350 animals are vaccinated, treated for ticks and fleas, and dewormed
- Veterinary care includes radiographs, diagnostics, surgery, and a variety of treatments to community pets and those animals rescued and admitted by the TEARS Mobile Clinic Teams.
One of the core aims of the clinic is to control the unwanted births of dogs and cats in low-income areas, and sterilisation of all treated animals is mandatory. In addition, all animals in our care are chipped, dewormed, treated for external parasites (ticks and fleas) and monitored by our expert team.
When processed, abandoned or surrendered animals are taken to our Kennel and Cattery Adoption Centres for rehabilitation and rehoming.
Our Veterinary and Community Outreach Goal for 2025/26 is to increase our impact footprint in the following three areas:
- Companion animal population control through sterilisations to reduce the number of kittens and puppies born into hardship;
- Animal vaccination programmes to prevent debilitating and often deadly animal-borne diseases spreading between animals or being transmitted to humans;
- Compassion and Pet Care Education, with a focus on marginalised youth as a means of inspiring a new generation and creating a kinder world.
Veterinary Clinic
TEARS is proud of its Community Veterinary Clinic which provides services for low-income clients. Sterilisation drives, including door-to-door canvassing, have had very positive results in our regularly serviced areas.
Furthermore, Clinic Staff also operate two Mobile Clinic Vans that, on a pre-arranged schedule, serve the low-income areas of Vrygrond, Ocean View, Mountain View, Redhill and Masiphumelele. They offer primary healthcare for the animals in these communities, as well as free sterilisations to be undertaken back at the clinic. Animals to be sterilised or requiring further care are transported to the on-site clinic for veterinary attention.
Viewing and Adoption
7 days a week (incl. public holidays)
10am to 3:30pm
Office and Clinic
7 days a week (incl. public holidays)
8:30am to 4:30pm (veterinary consults by appointment only)
