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All spay/neuter surgeries are performed by Arizona licensed veterinarians that specialize in high-volume spay/neuter surgeries. Altered Tails is very fortunate to have some of the most highly skilled veterinary surgeons sterilizing your beloved companion animals. Altered Tails' mobile clinic must comply with the same standards as a stationary clinic. Our mobile clinic is inspected by the Arizona Veterinary Examining Board

The Board Of Directors

Altered Tails was founded in November 2003. In April 2005 Altered Tails purchased a mobile clinic to make a bigger impact on our mission.

Announcement - December 6th 2007

Jan Raven graduated cum laude from Wayne State University Law School in Detroit, Michigan in 1982. Jan moved to Arizona in December of 1987. She was a prosecuting attorney in Wayne County, Michigan and in Maricopa County, Arizona. Since 1991 Jan has worked as a judge in various jurisdictions. She is currently a part-time judge in the Phoenix and Tempe Municipal Courts.

Jan Raven is a co-founder and current Board Chair of AzCATs, an organization that concentrates on sterilizing free-roaming, primarily feral, cats. AzCATs was recognized as Alley Cat Alley's national TNR organization in 2004. Jan was recognized as Arizona Animal Welfare League's Pet Person of the Year in 2002.

Jan has presented a several national conferences on trap, neuter, return (TNR). In 2004 she worked in the Galapagos Islands with Animal Balance to help with high volume spay/neuter and with TNR. In 2006 she traveled to Australia where she spoke in support of

Australia

adopting a TNR program to address their feral cat population.

Jan also served as the first Chair of the Board of the Alliance for Companion Animals, a coalition of organizations incorporated in December of 2004. She currently chairs their Spay/Neuter Committee and is the treasurer.

Jan and her husband, L. Grant, share their home with eight cats - Pooh, Buster Brown, Baker, Charlie, Max the Dude, Emeril, Nina, and Button.

Faye Hall, Interim Vice Chair / Secretary

Faye graduated from Sheffield Hallam University in the UK in 1995. She has been working for American Express since 1997 and transferred from the UK in 2001 to Phoenix where she works in an IT role as a Lead Business Systems Analyst.

Faye first joined the animal rescue community in 2004 with Paw Placement where she fostered cats and kittens and was an adoption rep for the organization. She began volunteering with Altered Tails in the summer of 2005 and accepted a board position in September of 2006.

Bea Barnhart has been an extremely generous donor to Altered Tails over the past two years and was voted onto the Board in March, 2006. Prior to moving to North Scottsdale in 1996, Bea and her husband, Dick, lived in Los Altos Hills, California. While living in California, Bea was a San Jose Humane Society Board member for 11 years. She also helped reduce the feral cat population at San Francisco State University through TNR – trap/neuter/return.

Bea also served on the Board of the American Cancer Society for eleven years. The ACS San Jose Chapter Discovery Store was founded by Bea. She served as the President of The San Jose Chapter of the Reach to Recovery Group for three years.

In September, 2007, Bea and her husband gave the Phoenix area animals and Altered Tails the ultimate gift. They purchased a 5,300 sq. ft. commercial building, located at 950 W. Hatcher Rd., and gave it to Altered Tails to build a high-volume spay/neuter clinic. Their munificent generosity continues as they have committed to match dollar-for-dollar all donations collected for the $600,000 required to bring the building up to City of Phoenix commercial code, do minor interior renovations and purchase veterinary equipment. The goal of the clinic is to sterilize 22,000 needy dogs and cats annually.

Bea earned her degree in Elementary Education at Russell Sage College in Troy, New York. Bea and Dick have three human children, Rick, Barbara and Kim, four human grandchildren, two fur daughters Princess Leigh and Tiffany Ann and three granddogs – Annie, Buddy and Coco Bean.

Marty Buck, Board Memeber

Marty Buck has worked in animal rescue in Maricopa County since 1990 when she volunteered with the Arizona Animal Welfare League (AAWL). Marty then volunteered with Dial a Pet which was the name of the volunteer group working with Maricopa County Animal Care & Control (MCACC) at that time. In 1995 Marty spent a year working with MCACC with the goal of helping to end the use of euthanasia as a means of population control for dogs and cats.

Marty has always been an equal opportunity volunteer. Since 1990, she has been a cat foster home for various shelters. Marty fostered for AAWL from 1990 through 1992. She then fostered for MCACC from 1993 through 1996. Since then Marty has fostered cats for the Arizona Humane Society. Beginning in 1999 Marty worked several years with AAWL to help them set up a spay/neuter program for free-roaming, primarily feral, cats. She has actively helped with AzCATs and Altered Tails with humane cat trapping.

In 1995 Marty's mentoring helped one of Maricopa County's premier fostering and adoption programs, R.E.S.C.U.E., get its start. A chance meeting with Marty in the parking lot of MCACC with R.E.S.C.U.E. founder, Julie Seal, helped turn Julie's tears of frustration at the number of homeless cats in MCACC's shelter into an organization that has now placed over 8,000 dogs and cats.

In late 2003 Marty joined the founding board of Altered Tails. Marty believes her most important job with Altered Tails is to regularly visit middle schools where she speaks at two assemblies. One assembly is for "little kids" where she explains what spaying or neutering is and how it makes pets happier and healthier. The second assembly is for "big kids" (6^th through 8^th grade) where Marty explains the reality of animal euthanasia in Maricopa County. Those assemblies are followed by spay/neuter clinics arranged with Altered Tails. The students bring their pets to school with them on the day of the clinic and turn them over to Altered Tails care for the day. After they are sterilized the dogs and cats go home with their families. Marty's goal is to visit one school each month during the upcoming school year.

Many animal rescue organizations in the valley have recognized Marty's contributions to animal welfare. The awards and recognition she has received include the following:

Year	Recognition	Organization
1993	Dedication Volunteer Award	Maricopa County Animal Care & Control
1999	deBois Humanitarian Award	Arizona Humane Society
1999	Genesis Award	R.E.S.C.U.E.
2001	Outstanding Work in Animal Rescue	AzCATs

Marty is a legal secretary at the Arizona State Attorney General's Office. She and her family of rescued cats make their home in Phoenix, Arizona.

Dr. Cristie's first introduction to the world of animal rescue happened at the age of 10 when she adopted her first puppy from the Hawaiian Humane Society, a sheltie mix that had been relinquished for chewing the previous owner’s shoes. As soon as she was old enough, Dr. Cristie began volunteering at the Hawaiian Humane Society, first as a dog bather and fish tank cleaner, before moving on to volunteer veterinary assistant.

In 1995, Dr. Kamiya left Honolulu for Colorado to pursue her dream of becoming a veterinarian. All through college and veterinary school, she continued volunteering with Larimer Humane Society, Humane Society of Boulder Valley, and the Northern Chapter of the Colorado House Rabbit Society.

Dr. Cristie received her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Master of Business Administration degrees from Colorado State University, and moved to Phoenix in 2005 where she worked as a staff veterinarian for Maricopa County Animal Care and Control, and Arizona Humane Society. Dr. Cristie became involved with Altered Tails in the fall of 2006 as a relief veterinary surgeon before joining the Board of Directors in 2007.

Dr. Cristie has since moved back to Boulder, Colorado, but remains involved with Altered Tails traveling at the end of every month to Phoenix to perform spay and neuter surgeries. She is currently the Lead Veterinarian at the Dumb Friends League, Colorado. Dr. Cristie and her partner share their home with three dogs – Ayla, Maya and Bernie, two cats- Mr. Kitty Cat and Max, and a menagerie of foster kittens.

Chery Weiner, Board Memeber

Cheryl Weiner moved to Arizona from Boston in 1996. She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Medical Technology from the University of Massachusetts and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Phoenix.

For three years, Cheryl was the Senior Vice President for Operations, Marketing and Public Relations with the Arizona Animal Welfare League, the state’s oldest and largest no-kill animal shelter and is a member of the Society of Animal Welfare Administrators. She has also served as executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Arizona (NAMI), and is currently Director of Wellness and Life Management at Body Positive, An HIV & AIDS Research and Resource Center. Cheryl’s family includes her Lethal White Aussie, Summer, and her long-haired Calico, Grace, both of whom adopted her while they were guests of the AAWL.

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