Hospital Story

Dr. Nickol Finch has been providing exceptional care for wildlife and exotic pets at Washington State University’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital for more than two decades.

Veterinarians say the goal is to ultimately release the foxes into the wild. The pups arrived at WSU, the only licensed wildlife rehabilitation facility in Whitman County, on May 24.

WSU veterinarian Marcie Logsdon is part of research team collecting tundra swan feces and sediment in the Lower Coeur d’Alene River Basin in an effort to monitor levels of lead exposure.

Lola, a 2-year-old Holland lop bunny found the help she needed at WSU.

Students will be on-call 24/7 to provide initial care to injured or orphaned wildlife in Eastern Washington.

Paula Buchert is confident that radiation treatment at Washington State University’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital extended the life of one of her best friends—an Angora rabbit, named Zsa Zsa.

Dr. Winter works closely with the Veterinary Teaching Hospital’s exotics team.

WSU is among the only facilities in the Northwest to offer radiation therapy for pets.

A piece of trash stuck on a barbed wire fence caught Bob Stuekle’s eye on an August harvest morning as he made his way to his combine off Clear Creek Road near Colfax. “I thought it was a plastic bag,” Stueckle said. “Then we drove over and found the bird caught and hanging on the […]

Takihin is just one of roughly 500 of her species alive.