08/27/2026
Notice about our K9EI Vaccine Wellness Clinic.
The next clinic date is October 18, Sunday, 11 to 5pm at Salvation Army Community Center.
Registration opens 2 weeks prior to clinic and closes once all registration spots are taken.
If you registered last month and didn't show, you are not eligible to attend future clinics. If you registered and contacted us prior to the clinic date to relinquish your appointment, you are still eligible for future clinics. Registering 4 dogs and not showing is not cool, or acceptable. Those 4 spots could have gone to 4 other families.
Our clinics are managed by volunteer staff, as well as the Veterinarian and Vet tech's. People are donating their time and skills to help the community keep their pets up dated on vaccines at the lowest cost in Will County.
We had 110 pets registered in August and only 85 showed up for their care. People who were serious about needing the low cost care couldn't register due to registration closing, yet we could have taken those people openings due to no shows.
People have suggested we make people pay up front, we don't want to do that as we know many people are counting on payday the Friday before the clinic. We want to encourage people to use the clinic not put up barriers.
When people abuse a good thing, that good thing goes away.
Volunteers spend 2 hours setting up the clinic, making Doggie Bags and Cat Packs as giveaways, (These Dog and Cat swag bags often have toys and treats totalling more than what you paid for the basic vaccines $20) displaying free collars, leads, selling at cost Heartworm and Flea & Tick Prevention. They put out free supplies and food.
All of these things and equipment we use must be transported to the site on the day of the clinic and then returned back to storage afterwards. We are essentially a MASH clinic or Circus depending on who is defining our operation. We come in, set up, provide the service, take down and go on our way. While the clinic is operating 6 hours, our team is working 9 hours that day and days after registering microchips and Rabies certificates.
The Salvation Army Joliet Corps Community Center donates the building for these clinics, they have people who stay in the building to lock it up after we are done at the end of the day. Again, more individuals volunteering for the good of the community and their time is just as valuable.
This is our 4th year of operating this community outreach vaccine wellness clinic, we have partnered with the The Salvation Army Joliet Corps Community Center for three years now. We try our best to donate food and treats each month to their food pantry recipients as another way of aiding the community. It's a great partnership and we can't thank Kevin Nolan and Linda Trevino enough for working with us on their end.
We love meeting your furry family member's, we offer a great deal on costs, and give away food and gifts, something for profit clinics do not offer in their business model. Our community atmosphere and helping people with their pets makes us unique, we want to continue doing so and expand in services; but we need people to respect the process and work with us.
We had a professional photography at the August clinic taking family photos, as soon as we have those photos we will get them posted in the K9 Vaccine Wellness Clinic group page.
