Category: Clinic
Training the Next Generation of RVTs
by Wendi Piscia | April 19th, 2024 | 10:43 am
For the first time ever, Napa Humane is hosting RVT interns! We are thrilled to be helping train capable and compassionate new professionals, helping solve the nationwide vet/RVT shortage, and at the same time, benefiting from their growing skill sets. It’s a win-win for everyone! In the past, we were told that Napa Humane’s focusedKeep Reading
A Month in the Life of Napa Humane
by Lisa Alexander | February 29th, 2024 | 3:38 pm
February may be the shortest month of the year, but you wouldn’t know it from all the activity at Napa Humane. Clinic Staffing We have hired a new Clinic Assistant Manager, Hayley, who comes to us with management and animal welfare experience. I am beyond excited to add this depth to the Clinic team, andKeep Reading
Napa Humane’s Big 3 from 2023
by Wendi Piscia | January 12th, 2024 | 2:53 pm
2023 was definitely one to remember. As Napa Humane celebrated 50 years – half a century! – of caring for animals in our community, we also launched three exciting new programs to serve our local pets. Dog training classes, shelter medicine, and case management for pets of Napa Valley’s unhoused now round out Napa Humane’sKeep Reading

50 Years: How Times Have Changed
by Wendi Piscia | November 28th, 2023 | 1:16 pm
A Golden Milestone in Compassion and Changes Animal Welfare In 1973, the year Napa Humane was founded, Richard Nixon was the President and a gallon of gas cost $0.39. How times have changed! Back then, dogs were rarely purchased or adopted – usually people just knew someone whose dog had puppies. Dogs often spent mostKeep Reading

A Great New Vet in the Making
by Wendi Piscia | September 18th, 2023 | 5:47 pm
Interview with Yoselin Hernandez-Aceves, Napa Humane Employee and Future Veterinarian Yoselin Hernandez-Aceves, our Vet Tech Assistant, is a lifelong animal lover who is really stepping up to help with the veterinary shortage – by leaving Napa Humane to attend veterinary school at UC Davis! Learn her story in her own words below. When didKeep Reading
A Tail of Two Caturdays
by Lisa Alexander | September 29th, 2022 | 12:12 pm
Our expert Caturday spay/neuter team gave up two of their precious weekend days off in August and September, to help prevent the needless suffering caused by pet overpopulation. Studies have shown that TNR (trap, neuter, return) programs like these improve the lives of feral cats, improve their relationships with the people who live near them,Keep Reading
Off To a Great Start!
by Wendi Piscia | May 2nd, 2022 | 11:48 am
Napa Humane exists so that the puppies and kittens born in Napa County are wanted and cared for, not entering shelters or rescue groups every day. So that preventable diseases don’t steal the lives of young animals, or threaten our human neighbors. So that pets lost in disasters (or just because a gate got leftKeep Reading
Napa Humane Partners with Petco Love to “Give Pets Their Best Shot” with Free Pet Vaccines
by Natalie Scott | May 2nd, 2022 | 9:52 am
Napa Humane is partnering with national nonprofit Petco Love and BISSELL Pet Foundation this spring to give pets their best shot! We’re joining Petco Love in their commitment to help end life-threatening diseases in pets with 1 million free pet vaccines. Vaccine-preventable diseases, such as parvovirus, distemper in dogs, and panleukopenia in cats are seenKeep Reading
Feeling Grateful
by Wendi Piscia | December 22nd, 2021 | 3:12 pm
What a wild ride this year – or rather, the last two years have been! Our team has zigged and zagged staying on top of current safety protocols, stared down increases in medical supply costs and supply shortages, and simultaneously juggled a significant increase in calls for help from new pet owners. All I canKeep Reading
Meet Kathy Plowman, Animal Welfare Warrior
by Lisa Alexander | November 18th, 2021 | 4:41 pm
What do you do if there is no low-cost spay/neuter clinic in your area? If you are Kathy Plowman, Lake County animal advocate, you bring as many dogs and cats to the nearest available clinic as possible – even if that means a 3+ hour round trip. Kathy’s interest in spay/neuter started when she noticedKeep Reading