Dr. Susan grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and graduated from the Western College of Veterinary Medicine in 1991. After moving to British Columbia, she practised veterinary medicine at her own small animal practice, Mission Veterinary Hospital, for over 23 years while raising three daughters and many 4 legged creatures with her husband Nat. Her interest in rehabilitation and physiotherapy in animals was piqued when a good friend opened a swimming pool for dogs in 2001. As a former water polo player, she was interested in how physiotherapy could help her patients, especially the older, arthritic ones. After a trip to Holland for the 4th symposium on Physical Therapy in Animals in 2006 she pursued her training in animal rehabilitation with the Canine Rehabilitation Institute and became a Certified Canine Rehabilitation Therapist in 2009. She was certified in veterinary medical acupuncture in 2022. Dr. Susan has worked closely with OrthoPets since 2011 and has fit over 500 orthotics and prosthetics in that time.
Dr. Susan loves helping pets live their best lives with their families, starting with their first puppy or kitten visits, to keeping them active and pain free into their senior years, and helping them over the rainbow bridge with their families with peace and dignity. She is very excited to start this new chapter in a new country but still her beloved Pacific Northwest.
In her free time she enjoys walking the dogs, Cindy Pawford (a supermodel English Cocker Spaniel) and Harken (a ball obsessed Chesapeake Bay Retriever), exploring Puget Sound with Nat on the sailboat or reading a book and doing jigsaw puzzles with her daughters.
