About OVC Pet Trust Fund
OVC Pet Trust honours the relationship between pets and their people and veterinary care givers. We do this by raising funds and supporting learning, healthcare, and research at the Ontario Veterinary College (OVC).
Improving Veterinary Health Care Since 1986
The organization was founded out of necessity in 1986, when funding support was virtually non-existent for applied health research that benefited companion animals. Since then, OVC Pet Trust has raised millions of dollars through the generosity of friends and supporters like you.
Funding from OVC Pet Trust has led to major improvements in anesthesia and pain control for pets, heart disease and heart monitoring techniques, dermatology, understanding the human-animal bond and more.
Your Gifts at Work
Each year, OVC Pet Trust provides funding for new research on topics ranging from using stem cells to repair bone cartilage in dogs to epilepsy in Nova Scotia Duck Trolling Retrievers to infectious diseases that we share with our pets.
Your support has helped train graduate students and veterinary specialists who have gone on to careers in private practice and at universities across Canada and around the world.
Gifts to OVC Pet Trust have enhanced the quality of care at the OVC Teaching Hospital, providing funds for a state-of-the-art MRI facility and upgrades to the hospital's intensive care unit and diagnostic imaging services.
Join the Fight Against Cancer
OVC Pet Trust has also pledged to raise $10 million to establish Canada's first comprehensive animal cancer care centre at the OVC. Part of the University of Guelph's Institute for Comparative Cancer Investigation, this groundbreaking initiative is dedicated to providing comprehensive cancer care for companion animals and unlocking the deadly secrets of the disease for the benefit of all species.
