Local pets have a new resource in their corner this month, with the establishment of Wagener’s only veterinary clinic.
Dr. Jennifer Glore and her staff have set up shop at 111 Railroad Ave. W., offering office visits and offering basic services for cats, dogs and a couple of other species, as well as accepting requests for farm calls. The building may be familiar to hundreds of local residents, as it previously housed the town hall, police department and town museum.
Wagener Animal Clinic, which officially opened Feb. 1, may be the first such business in the town’s history, according to several residents.
Among the new customers is Salley resident Amber Rushton. “I absolutely loved it,” she said, recalling a visit with Liberty (a Staffordshire terrier) and another with Lincoln (a Labrador retriever).
Rushton noted that the clinic crew was personable, efficient and helpful. Referring to herself and her husband, she said, “It’s hard for us to get home and get the dogs and get to Aiken, Columbia or Batesburg before 6.”
Glore, now a Wagener resident, is a 2003 graduate of Purdue University, in Indiana. She owned a practice in Indiana, moved to Georgia “and then bought a piece of land here in Wagener,” said Hope Miller, a veterinary assistant now part of Glore’s team.
The clinic owner, after visiting Wagener, “fell in love with the area,” Miller said. “She really loved the town and she realized, ‘There’s no veterinary clinic here. I’d love to start a new clinic,’ and so she picked the town that she really fell in love with.”
Dogs and cats are the primary patients, Miller said. “We do also see goats and lambs and pigs. She does not see horses or donkeys, but goats and lambs.”
Completing Glore’s crew are Neally Grock, a registered veterinary technician and Miranda Daggerheart, the receptionist.
Rachel Stone Hall may have a unique place in the clinic’s history, having brought in the clinic’s first patient: pooch pal Bella, who received a nail trim.
Services are by appointment only. For more information or to make an appointment, call 803-218-9181. The clinic is open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. except for Thursdays when the clinic closes at noon .
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