{"id":4590,"date":"2019-04-30T15:28:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T19:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=4590"},"modified":"2019-04-30T15:28:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T19:28:46","slug":"purdue-animal-hospital-oldest-facility-of-its-kind-gets-73m-boost-from-statehouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/purdue-animal-hospital-oldest-facility-of-its-kind-gets-73m-boost-from-statehouse.php","title":{"rendered":"Purdue animal hospital, oldest facility of its kind, gets $73M boost from Statehouse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/04\/26\/PLAI\/07198928-e501-4c1d-ba2b-9d2a4513ed6f-190426_NF_Purdue_Vet_05.JPG?width=540&amp;height=&amp;fit=bounds&amp;auto=webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/04\/26\/PLAI\/07198928-e501-4c1d-ba2b-9d2a4513ed6f-190426_NF_Purdue_Vet_05.JPG?width=540&amp;height=&amp;fit=bounds&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Cassie Cords, veterinary nurse, holds Ace, a red fox lab, as Dr. Wendy Townsend, associate professor, examines his eyes at the Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Friday, April 26, 2019 in West Lafayette.  (Photo: Nikos Frazier | Journal &amp; Courier)\" width=\"391\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a><figcaption> <br><strong>Cassie Cords, veterinary nurse, holds Ace, a red fox lab, as Dr. Wendy Townsend, associate professor, examines his eyes at the Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Friday, April 26, 2019 in West Lafayette.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><em>(Photo: Nikos Frazier | Journal &amp; Courier)<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. \u2013 Ace, a red fox Labrador retriever, is a regular at the Purdue Small Animal Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His owners, Ron and Denise Raduenz, on Friday drove an hour-and-a-half from Cedar Lake, in northwest Indiana, just as they have for the past seven years, when Ace was diagnosed with blastomycosis, a fungal disease that can be a killer for dogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe vets we had home tried,\u201d Ron Raduenz said. \u201cBut they said, \u2018If you want to save him, take him to Purdue \u2013 tonight.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jconline.com\/story\/news\/2019\/04\/26\/purdue-vet-teaching-hospital-oldest-facility-its-kind-gets-73-m-boost-statehouse\/3586661002\/\">Purdue animal hospital, oldest facility of its kind, gets $73M boost from Statehouse<\/a> at the Journal &amp; Courier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. \u2013 Ace, a red fox Labrador retriever, is a regular at the Purdue Small Animal Hospital. His owners, Ron and Denise Raduenz, on Friday drove an hour-and-a-half from Cedar Lake, in northwest Indiana, just as they have for the past seven years, when Ace was diagnosed with blastomycosis, a fungal disease that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4590"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4593,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590\/revisions\/4593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}