War Tails Documentary
About the event
The College of Veterinary Medicine will host a screening of the award-winning documentary “War Tails” in the CUB Auditorium on October 4 from 5-6:30 PM. The film investigates the harsh reality faced by homeless pets in Ukraine and the team working to rescue them. As the dedicated veterinarians and volunteers assemble, their mission becomes saving animals and people from the new killer besides the war itself – rabies. View the trailer on YouTube.
Executive Producer Dan Fine (’82 Lib. Arts) will introduce the film and a Q&A with Dean Dori Borjesson, Khrystyna Drahomaretska, the main subject of War Tails — an architect-turned-animal shelter manager in Odesa, UA, Tana Axtelle, UWARF co-founder and Mark Dyce (’89 Comm.) a refugee pet volunteer, will follow.
Read “The war against rabies in Ukraine and the race to stop it crossing borders” in The Independent.
A disease which has been largely eradicated from Europe, rabies is suddenly raising its head in Ukraine where millions of abandoned pets are now running wild. Ahead of a film exposing the public health crisis, Joe Shute talks to Khrystyna Drahomaretska who caught the disease during her work inoculating feral cats and dogs roaming the streets in the wartorn country.
The film is presented as part of the College of Veterinary Medicine’s 125 years of excellence events.
For more information, visit our anniversary celebration page.