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Dakin Humane Society's pet clinic serves an inner-city population

Dr. Jack Muth, Dakin Humane Society's Public Medical and Education Director in an examination room at the Pet Health Center
Paul Tuthill
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WAMC
Dr. Jack Muth, Dakin Humane Society's Public Medical and Education Director in an examination room at the Pet Health Center

The Pet Health Center has had more than 4,000 appointments in its first year

The new Pet Health Center at the Dakin Humane Society in Springfield, Massachusetts has had a busy first year.

More than 3,000 patients have been treated at the facility, located at Dakin’s headquarters on Union Street in the Metro Center.

A new surgical suite is going to open shortly and another full-time veterinarian has been hired.

WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill took a tour of the center.

The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.