Nice tie, Dr. Huston!
On Wednesday April 18th we had the pleasure of hearing from our very own Dr. Dick Huston. Dr. Huston shared with us his experiences of his veterinarian mission trip to Samburu Kenya Africa in 2017. Goats, Sheep & Camels were his patients and the people of the region were the recipients of his good will.
Dr. Huston along with about 15 people from Kenya, that included 3 other veterinarians and some helpers were working through Christian Veterinary mission collaboration with Veterinaries with a mission grogram. In one weeks’ time the group treated 9646 animals for internal and external parasites. Owners would hear their animals 12 to 14 miles to get them to the mission group. Mostly women, along with their smaller children would be the one bringing in the animals. The mission group set up corrals made of extremely sharp barbed bush branches, they would cut the bush and make corals out of the branches to hold the animals in while there were one by one being injected. The conditions were dry and dusty.
By the end of the week our good Dr. was known as the camel expert. Dr. Houston told us you have to be very quick and nibble on your feet because once you inject a camel, they are swing around their head and coming for you to let you know of their displeasure about their injection.
Dr. Houston had a chance to speak to the children about education and cleaning up their surroundings. Before his trip ended the village, he had been in was picking up garbage and trash to make it a cleaner environment for all. The villagers planted 6 Mango trees in his honor.
Thank you, Dick, for your service to animals and humans alike, we are honored to have you in our club. You set a great example of the 4-way test!