Veterinary college offers pet portraits with Santa
Santa holds a small sheltie
BLACKSBURG, Va., Nov. 22, 2011 – The Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech will offer its annual opportunity for pets to meet and get photographed with Santa Claus on Sunday, Nov. 27 from noon to 4 p.m. at the college’s Blacksburg campus.
Cats, dogs, and exotics (no reptiles) are welcome. All pets must be contained or on a leash.
Photographs will be taken at the veterinary college. Signs will direct visitors to the event and ample parking will be available. Packages of portraits will be offered and details will be available on-site. The photos can be picked up at the college.
The program is being presented by the college’s Omega Tau Sigma service fraternity, a veterinary student organization that provides a variety of community services.
For more information, please contact Derek O’Dell at 540-588-6040.
The Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine is a two-state, three-campus professional school operated by the land-grant universities of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg and the University of Maryland at College Park. Its flagship facilities, based at Virginia Tech, include the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, which treats more than 40,000 animals annually. Other campuses include the Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center in Leesburg, Va., and the Avrum Gudelsky Veterinary Center at College Park, home of the Center for Public and Corporate Veterinary Medicine. The college annually enrolls approximately 500 Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and graduate students, is a leading biomedical and clinical research center, and provides professional continuing education services for veterinarians practicing throughout the two states.
- Michael D Sutphin
- Public Relations Coordinator
- 540-231-6716
- msutphin@vt.edu
