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Susan
McMillan has been practicing veterinary medicine since 1997 when
she graduated from University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine.
She spent five years in a small animal practice in Fairbanks,
Alaska. Her busy days were filled with surgery, medicine, dentals,
ultrasounds, x-rays, lab work, lots of bush medicine (advice by phone
to clients living in bush villages with no road access to veterinary care),
and emergencies (kicked by moose and lots of porcupine quills).
Dr. McMillan volunteered many weekends throughout the long winters to
vetting sled dog races, including the Yukon Quest, the Quest 250, the
Junior Quest, the Copper Basin 300, the Gold Run 200 and the Two Rivers
200. She particularly enjoyed working with teens and rookie mushers at
the back of the pack whose goal often was just to finish the race with
a healthy, happy team of dogs.
After leaving Alaska in 2001, Dr. McMillan did relief work in Southern
California for a year but managed to make her way to the civilized state
of Vermont where she and her partner and practice manager Becky Roberts
are now at home.
Relief work in the Burlington and St. Albans area led to the opening of
Vet To Pet Mobile Veterinary Service in August, 2005. Once this mobile
house calls practice was up and running it was time to open the Old North
End Veterinary Clinic in November 2006.
Both practices are quite successful, offering a variety of services and
currently supporting 1,250 clients and their pets.
In her off time, Susan enjoys bicycling, hiking, photography, and is currently
training to run the Grand Canyon in September, 2008.
Becky
Roberts, our practice manager, is a native of the midwest but
spent most of her adult life in Phoenix, San Diego and Los Angeles. She
is a jack of all trades and has been a small business owner several times
over. Becky has designed women’s athletic clothing, performed interior
and faux painting, organized large scale athletic/fund raising events,
and studied feng shui. Currently, Becky runs both the mobile and Old North
End services. She books appointments, sends reminders, fields calls, maintains
financial records, and is the first and last person every client sees.
In her off time, Becky loves to cook, walk, hike, watch movies, harvest
our share at the Intervale
Community Farm, and is currently training to run the Grand Canyon again.
Articles Written
by Susan McMillan for
Out in the Mountains
| "Strange Things Done Under the Midnight Sun" |
| "The Summer of My Two Loves" |
| One Marriage to Another |
| A Woman of Many Firsts |
| "Dan the Man" |