{"id":29275,"date":"2024-02-09T16:59:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T23:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/denkai-animal-sanctuary-will-host-clinic-feb-24\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T00:52:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T06:52:39","slug":"denkai-animal-sanctuary-will-host-clinic-feb-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/denkai-animal-sanctuary-will-host-clinic-feb-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Denkai Animal Sanctuary will host clinic Feb. 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e762df87-7ba0-490b-ae42-5d3635d99c45&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"745\" alt=\"The Denkai Animal Sanctuary, now at 209 W. Main St., will accept walk-ins only for its pet clinic on Feb. 24.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Denkai Animal Sanctuary, now at 209 W. Main St., will accept walk-ins only for its pet clinic on Feb. 24.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>On Feb. 24 beginning at 9 a.m., Denkai Animal Sanctuary will host a clinic offering services including pet vaccinations, worming and microchipping.<\/p>\n<p>Denkai Director Floss Blackburn said they hope to make clinics more frequent to help provide spaying, neutering, vaccinations and other services at a low cost.<\/p>\n<p>They are working with two foundations that are providing grants to help fund the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The sanctuary plans to add veterinary help outside of clinic time once or twice a month until they can hire a full-time veterinarian.<\/p>\n<p>They hope to host another clinic in March or April.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, Blackburn said two veterinarians are willing to help out. One will do surgeries; the other, wellness clinics.<\/p>\n<p>The clinic on Feb. 24 at Denkai, 209 W. Main St., will accept walk-ins only. Denkai will serve the walk-ins as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Services at the clinic include free vaccines thanks to a grant from the Petco Foundation, $15 rabies shots, microchipping and $10 worming. The $30 fee will help offset Denkai\u2019s costs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re trying to collaborate and help the community as much as possible,\u201d Blackburn said.<\/p>\n<p>Because Denkai can\u2019t house animals overnight, sheltered animals are fostered out. Most of the foster families, 95%, are on the Front Range, making travel costs another financial hurdle.<\/p>\n<p>Blackburn said Denkai has considered buying the old Cortez Bed and Breakfast, allowing overnight stays, but needs money.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Denkai, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/denkaisanctuary.org\/\" id=\"link-00298c0b061ef27d637609678b657ab5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/denkaisanctuary.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Services include pet vaccinations and microchipping<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[382,364,21,60,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-29275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-animal","tag-community","tag-cortez","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80693,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29275\/revisions\/80693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29275"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=29275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}