John and Ann Tickle Small Animal Hospital

The $10 million, 32,000-square-foot expansion of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital’s Small Animal Hospital completed in April 2008 was made possible by a generous gift from John and Ann Tickle. Prior to expansion, the facility was too small and too inefficient to treat the growing number of small animals requiring treatment (more than fifteen thousand annually). The canine rehabilitation program; world-class programs in medical and radiation oncology; avian, wildlife, and exotic zoological medicine; and an isolation suite for small animals with infectious diseases occupied the state-of-the-art facility when it was completed. The small animal hospital also housed the only linear accelerator in Tennessee devoted to treating animals and provided MRI services.