Rhodes implores veterinarians to donate

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Washington - In his final speech before the American Veterinary Medical Association's House of Delegates, Dr. R. Tracy Rhodes commended the American Veterinary Medical Foundation's (AVMF) disaster relief, research and scholarship programs and chastised his colleagues for failing to fuel the nonprofit's initiatives.

WASHINGTON — In his final speech before the American Veterinary Medical Association's House of Delegates, Dr. R. Tracy Rhodes commended the American Veterinary Medical Foundation's (AVMF) disaster relief, research and scholarship programs and chastised his colleagues for failing to fuel the nonprofit's initiatives.

The AVMF's outgoing chairman stopped short of calling the lack of veterinarian support an embarrassment.

"When it comes to donations, we're piss poor," Rhodes announced to delegates last month during their annual meeting in Washington. "Just 5 percent of our members donate."

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