House Call Vet Café Podcast

Dr. Tosha Starke is a veterinarian and businesswoman in Virginia who is making waves in the veterinary community through her innovative businesses and advocacy. She founded All Four Paws Veterinary Relief in 2013 as a way to balance her passions of being a veterinarian and a mom. In 2021, while general practices and emergency clinics everywhere were overloaded with appointments and still hemorrhag...

Dr. Erin Dresner is a Diplomate of the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners in Feline Practice and is certified in Veterinary Medical Acupuncture. Her concierge house call practice, Bloom Integrative Veterinary Care, delivers the highest quality conventional medicine and evidence-based holistic care to loved pets (and the occasional zoo animal) in Northwest Houston, Texas.  Above all, she is...

Lory was born and raised in Southern California. Her father immigrated from Havana, Cuba in his mid-teens and established a bakery in Glendale, CA helping to instill in her a firm work ethic and strong integrity. She graduated from Pierce College with a double AS in Animal Science and Equestrian Science as well as a Certification in Barn Management. She went on to work as a horse trainer for sever...

Dr. Cindy Trice has spent the majority of her 18-year veterinary career as a relief vet working in multiple states and many (she's lost count) unique ER, GP, shelter, and mobile practices. Early on in her career, she discovered a passion for serving her colleagues and helping them take a break!  She's also the founder of 2 companies - Relief Rover, a platform connecting relief vets and techs to jo...

Jamie was born and raised in Gaithersburg, Maryland. With her love of learning and of animals, she began her career in 2002 as a kennel assistant. Because of her enthusiasm, drive, and ability to grasp new concepts, Jamie was swiftly moved into a veterinary technician role that also included team management, inventory management, and various leadership responsibilities. Jamie is passionate about l...

Kadeth is a retired RVT turned private practice, licensed marriage and family therapist, integrating heart, mind, spirit, body, and knowledge into building healing pathways. His primary populations include the LGTBQA community, domestic violence survivors, and the veterinary community. He is a Reiki master teacher and shaman practitioner. He's been a really important part of Margold Veterinary, he...

Dr. Laura Veals is a small animal integrative veterinarian based out of Boise, Idaho. She is the owner/founder of Divine Wellness For Animals, the only mobile veterinary acupuncture and rehabilitation practice in the entire Treasure Valley. After working in clinical practice since 2014, she became deeply passionate about providing accessible mobility care to all patients, especially those who may...

Karen Scherrer has been a registered veterinary technician for 25 years this month. Ironically, she is officially retiring after spending the past 10+ years of focused effort for supposed major animal welfare organizations, as she has been consistently disappointed in the real-life scenarios that have played out behind the scenes. The most recent scenario was her experience helping to rescue a his...

Serena is a Registered Veterinary Technician in the state of Ohio who graduated from Tri-C in Parma, OH in 2009. She is a wife, mother, vet tech, business coach for RVTs, and serial business owner.  Serena has 4 dogs, 6 cats, 1 bird, a frog, a snake, a bearded dragon, and has grown up caring for animals since she was little. She is an advocate for animals, technicians, and change in the veterinary...

Dr. Meredith Jones is a veterinarian and the co-founder of Veterinary Financial Summit, a financial conference and online community for veterinary professionals. She is a self-professed "money nerd" who attends financial conferences and courses in her spare time. In 2016, she completed training to become a financial coach and founded the Debt-Free Vets Facebook group. She is also the co-host of th...

Dr. Daniela Castillo attended veterinary school in Mexico, at Universidad Veracruzana. While visiting a functioning pig slaughterhouse, she was so traumatized that she had to seek psychological therapy. The therapist basically gave Daniela two options: quit veterinary school and do something else to help animals or "suck it up" and finish school if she really wanted to become a Veterinarian. Danie...

Dr. Bill Scherrer is a practicing board-certified small animal surgeon, who boarded in 2009. For the past three years, he has been a Medical Director at a growing multi-specialty hospital in San Diego. He is a husband to a beautiful wife, Karen, and a father to an extraordinary daughter, Georgia. These two women have been instrumental in teaching him empathy, compassion, and accountability, and th...

Jessica Fragola graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2011 (Eve's classmate!).  She then pursued a meandering career path as an equine vet, then a mixed animal vet, then a wannabe veterinary ophthalmologist, then an emergency vet prior to starting her in-home euthanasia practice in NYC earlier this year. During her years as an emergency vet, she discovered she felt truly fulfilled helpi...

Dr. Aja is an integrative house call veterinarian based in Seattle, WA. She has advanced training and certifications in pain management, Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine, rehabilitation, animal chiropractic, massage, and more. In her independent solo practice, Sea to Sky Holistic Vet, she provides integrative care with a special focus on internal medicine, pain management, geriatric medicin...

Dr. Marianna Judd was born in London, the UK, and grew up in Chesterfield in the north of England before moving to the Netherlands in 1998. She studied veterinary medicine at Utrecht University and worked for 14 years as a veterinarian in practice before starting Zen Pets in February 2021. She currently works as a house call vet specializing in acupuncture and other aspects of Chinese medicine whi...

Dr. Seely Rotigel graduated from Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine in 1994 and is a small animal mobile vet. After graduating, she then worked at 2 "land clinics" for the next 8 years then decided it was time to do things her way and started the Visiting Vet Mobile Vet Clinic 20 years ago. She opted to go mobile (after fuming in her office, upset about some current clinic po...

Dr. Valerie Coerver was born and raised in rural southeastern Oklahoma. She attended St. Matthew's University in Grand Cayman and did her clinical rotation at Washington State University. She worked at various clinics in Oklahoma and Texas and finally decided to go out on her own with a house call business. She has been doing full-time housecall work for over 3 years with 3 years being part-time l...

Dr. Evarest Maguo has been a veterinarian for over thirty years, and in 1997 he established his own veterinary practice and mobile clinic, along with his wife, Mrs. Evelyne.  They are both experienced in agricultural services, environmental work, and the provision of veterinary care and animal welfare education. Evarest has been working as a vet since 1990 and holds a degree in Environmental Scien...

Andrew Ciccolini is a Medical Director at the National Mill Dog Rescue, a large non-profit located in Peyton Colorado, and the Director of Non-Profit Initiatives at Galaxy Vets. His background includes serving in the U.S. Army, where he worked his way up from Associate Veterinarian to VP of Operations. In addition to his Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine, he has a Master's degree in Organizational...

Julie Squires is a Compassion Fatigue Specialist and Certified Life Coach who brings a unique perspective and approach to support the sustained energy and passion of those who work with and for animals in the emotionally challenging fields of veterinary medicine, animal welfare, lab animal research, animal advocacy, and conservation/environmentalism. Her approach is a direct response to a need she...

Julie Squires is a Compassion Fatigue Specialist and Certified Life Coach who brings a unique perspective and approach to support the sustained energy and passion of those who work with and for animals in the emotionally challenging fields of veterinary medicine, animal welfare, lab animal research, animal advocacy, and conservation/environmentalism. Her approach is a direct response to a need she...

Dr. Nia Perkins has been a practicing veterinarian for almost 20 years. A graduate of Tuskegee University College of Veterinary Medicine, she dreamed of becoming a vet since she was a child growing up in Chicago. She hadn't been practicing long before she realized that things were not going to go the way she had planned them out in her head. She thought she would find her dream job, stay there unt...

Dr. Erica Dickie is the owner/founder of Black Creek Mobile Veterinary Services, based out of Stratford, Ontario.  She graduated with distinction from the Ontario Veterinary College in 2011 and in 2020 became a Certified Hospice and Palliative Care Veterinarian. She is passionate about all things relating to End-of-Life Care for pets & has dedicated her practice to helping pet families in her comm...

Dr. Chloe Hannigan is a locum small animal vet in the UK and a qualified yoga teacher. Using her first-hand experience in practice, she aims to teach fellow veterinary professionals how yoga and meditation can improve physical, mental, and emotional wellness through her business, VetYogi. Topics Covered In This Episode A deep dive into boundaries How boundaries relate to yoga & house call practice...

Dr. Chloe Hannigan is a locum small animal vet in the UK and a qualified yoga teacher. Using her first-hand experience in practice, she aims to teach fellow veterinary professionals how yoga and meditation can improve physical, mental, and emotional wellness through her business, VetYogi. Topics Covered In This Episode: Yoga philosophy Yoga for veterinarians taught by a veterinarian Evidence-based...