A Havelock North vet is sporting a new hairdo after shaving her head with animal clippers for the Leukaemia & Blood Cancer New Zealand charity.
VetEnt Havelock North veterinarian Dr Alanda Rafferty took up the shaving challenge after feeling she needed to "give back" to her community and has accomplished this by raising well over her fundraising goal of $1000.
"I felt I needed to do something and now I've made a reasonable donation I feel really good," she said.
When the surgical-grade animal clippers were put to Mrs Rafferty's head on Wednesday she had already raised more that $1500 and yesterday she said there were still more donations to count.
"So far I have received about $370 in cash and $1220 donations direct on to my fundraising site.