Who We Are
Our Vision
To provide our community with the best animal medical care in the South Pacific Region.
Our Mission
To employ dedicated and experienced professionals, adopt excellent medical treatment procedures and to always C.A.R.E. for our patients, clients, stakeholders and colleagues.
Compassion
TAM provides a warm and welcoming veterinary clinic at all times by demonstrating empathy, compassion and understanding towards our patients and clients. We treat others how we would like to be treated.
Adaptability
We are responsive to the needs of our community and will adapt the services we provide with innovation, commitment and ingenuity, without compromising our professional, ethical, and medical standards.
Respectful
Our actions demonstrate trust and respect for each other’s abilities, ideas and beliefs. Integrity and confidentiality are integral to the service we provide.
Excellence
We provide an efficient, professional and accountable service with absolute customer care. It is our duty to care for the wellbeing of our patients and their owners.
Services
Our Services
All veterinary services and drugs are provided on a donation basis. In order to ensure we replace medications when used and keep our surgical equipment in top condition we rely heavily on donations.
Many of the clients who use the clinics services are unsure how much to donate so we have come up with a suggested list of donations for services provided. These donations cover the direct cost of the treatment.
Suggested donations
De-sexing Dogs (castrations and speys) $50 Male-$60 Female each
De-sexing Cats (castrations and speys) $20 Male-$30 Female each
Consultation $20
Flea treatment $15/pet
X-rays $40
Lump removal $60 – $100
Medication $10 – $40
Bandaging $10 – $50
Other surgery treatment – please ask for a suggestion
Due to the costs associated with the following services we are unable to provide them on a donation basis.
Heartworm Test – $30 (more information below)
Export Tests – POA
Pentostan Injections (for arthritis) – to be determined upon consultation
Yearly Heartworm Injections – to be determined upon consultation
Donations do not have to be in cash.
– If you have extra produce, you could donate it to our volunteers. You can also help our volunteers to have a good time on Rarotonga by welcoming them to community events or treating them to activities.
Members of the public and visitors to the Cook Islands often get in touch with us wondering what items would be helpful for us here at the clinic.
For those in the veterinary or medical industries, we have a medical supplies list we can forward to you, including urgently needed items. For everyone else, the below list includes items that are easily accessible yet essential to us continuing to operate as a charity vet clinic in a remote island community.
Please email us at volunteer@tearemanu.com for more information, or to request an updated medical supplies list.
– Collars
– Leads
– Pet shampoo/conditioner
– Medicated (i.e. Malaseb) preferred
– Pet toys
– Puppy/Kitten milk replacer (i.e. Wombaroo)
– Pet food
– Hill’s or Royal Canin Urinary Diets
– Cat Dental Diets
– Towels/sheets/pillowcases
– Good condition for our volunteer accommodation
– Old/used for animals
– Tissues
– Empty medication dispensing bottles
Heartworm Alert!
– We often see dogs with heart-worm infections.
– This is a deadly disease that is hard and very expensive to treat if your dog becomes infected.
– We can do a simple blood test for $30 to check if your dog has heart-worm and then we can provide a preventative by injection that will give a full year of protection.
– The cost of this is calculated by your dog’s weight.