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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.fairbanks-alaska.com
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 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 was to just finish the race with a healthy, happy team of dogs.
After leaving Alaksa 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 1400 clients and their pets.
In her off time, Susan enjoys bicycling, hiking, and photography. In September 2008, she and Becky hiked the Grand Canyon, rim to rim, in 15 hours. They plan to hike rim to rim to rim for Susan’s 50th birthday in two years. She and Becky live with their three pets: Fang the 17 year old cat who wandered up to the house in 1992 while Susan was doing her pre-vet studies in Peoria, Illinois in 1992; Killian the wonder dog, a border collie mix, who stole Susan’s heart at a shelter in Maryland in 1996 and has been the perfect companion for 13 years, and Fury, the three year old happy cat from our own Humane Society of Chittenden County.
Becky Roberts, Practice Manager
A native of Indiana, Becky played basketball for Indiana University and majored in physical education. She quickly left the Midwest and has spent much of her adult life in Phoenix, San Diego, and Los Angeles.
She started her career as an outdoor educator, for eight years running a wilderness school for high school kids in Phoenix. 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, and studied feng shui. Recently, Becky traveled extensively, organizing large scale athletic/fund raising events, including the 3-Day Breast Cancer Walks and the AIDS Vaccine Rides.
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, and harvest our share at the Intervale Community Farm
www.intervalecommunityfarm.com.
She has twice hiked the Grand Canyon, most recently hiking rim to rim in 15 hours in September, 2008.
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" |