Our Story

What Inspired the Mission? 

During her years in private practice, she saw rescue organizations struggling to stay afloat, often not able to pay for care even if they desperately wanted to. She also saw many owners requesting euthanasia instead of treating the animals in need of care. Dr. Shults truly began to feel she needed to move away from private practice and concentrate on homeless animals. She believes that every animal deserves exceptional veterinary care regardless of being homeless. In 2014, Dr. Shults left private practice for good to open the first veterinary hospital of it’s kind!

so, What is Mazie's Mission?

Mazie’s Mission is a nonprofit veterinary hospital dedicated to serving the homeless and neglected animals in our community. We are the same as any other veterinary hospital, but our clients are animal rescue organizations and animal shelters. We strive to build personal relationships with our partners and to provide affordable and quality care for the homeless animals in Dallas/Fort Worth and surrounding areas.

In January 2014 we opened our doors to our first patient in Frisco, Texas. We quickly outgrew that original facility and in 2018, moved to a much larger facility in Carrollton. We have again outgrown our current facility and will move to an even larger one at the end of 2024!

The Mission desires to lease this facility short term while we are looking for appropriate land to build the permanent facility. We need ~10 acres to build an ‘Animal Headquarters’ that will become synonymous with animal welfare. We are the only veterinary clinic of its kind in the country, serving only pets in the rescue system. We do not see privately owned pets outside of our community outreach programs.

The rest of Mazie's Mission includes our low-cost heartworm treatment program, our rescue program, our military and first responders program, and our forensic veterinary medicine division. Dr. Shults is training in Veterinary Forensics so that we can be a driving force in puppy mill seizures, animal cruelty/neglect cases, and hoarding situations. She hopes to aid prosecutors and law enforcement in bringing justice to the innocent. We want to do everything in our power help the underserved, homeless, and abused pets in our area.

We hope the clinic will fund a land purchase. Once the land has been secured, donations will help build a clinic and holding facilities for the animals. Dr. Shults will continue to serve rescues only. We would be thrilled if this was wildly successful and other vets in other large cities followed suit. If we can make vet care much cheaper for rescues, then they will rescue more animals, then the euthanasia rate will decrease.

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