Fantastic Facts
- Each year, our 21 mobile clinics and two education buses travel approximately 447,000 miles – that’s the same as going to the moon and back.
- Last year, our veterinary centres and mobile clinics treated over 380,000 working animals. That’s more than 1,000 every day.
- More than 25,000 school pupils visited our education centres to learn how to care for animals every year. That’s enough children to fill 350 double-decker buses.
- Since 2005, we’ve helped more than one million working animals stay healthy and happy.
- When stacked up, the bottles of painkillers we used in 2007 would be 200 metres high, that’s twice the height of Big Ben.
- SPANA distributes over 270,000 kilograms of food concentrate and more than 17,000 bales of hay and straw each year (not counting our emergency work!).
- So far we’ve trained over 300 farriers in more humane methods of shoeing and trimming, preventing painful hoof deformities.
- We use 8,800 metres of stitching material every single year. That’s over a million stitches – each one helping to heal the wound of an injured working animal.
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