Becky Roberts, Practice Manager
A native of Indiana but a southern Californian at heart, Becky played basketball for Indiana University and majored in physical education. She moved away from the Midwest as soon as possible and has spent most of her adult life in Phoenix, San Diego, and Los Angeles.
She started her working career as an outdoor educator, for eight years running a wilderness school for high school kids in Phoenix. This group traveled and did amazing trips to Europe, Hawaii, Colorado, and Utah. Some weekends, they stayed closer to home and taught the kids to ski, back pack, rock climb, and survive in the desert.
After leaving Arizona, Becky embarked on a lifelong venture of tackling everything that comes her way. She is a jack of all trades and has been a small business owner several times over. Becky designed and sold women’s athletic clothing (Fine Line Design), performed interior and faux painting, sold cars and real estate, studied feng shui, and had an event coordination company in Los Angeles (The Dog and Pony Show). Before moving to Vermont, Becky traveled extensively for Pallotta Teamworks organizing large scale athletic fund raising events, including the 3-Day Breast Cancer Walks and the AIDS Vaccine Rides.
Currently, Becky runs both Vet To Pet Mobile and the Old North End Veterinary Clinic. She books appointments, sends reminders, maintains all financial records, fixes the computer, printer and phones, and is the first and last person every client sees.
Becky is a fantastic cook and also loves to walk, hike, watch movies, snow shoe, and harvest our share at the Intervale Community Farm. She has twice hiked the Grand Canyon, most recently hiking rim to rim in 15 hours in September, 2008.
Both Becky and Susan try to visit their four parents (ranging in age from 77 to 90) as often as possible.
Susan McMillan, DVM
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. Days were filled with surgery, medicine, dentals, ultrasounds, x-rays, lab work, bush medicine (advice by phone to clients living in villages with no road access to veterinary care), and emergencies (lots of ‘kicked by moose’ injuries and porcupine quills).
Dr. McMillan spent long winter weekends vetting sled dog races, including the Yukon Quest, the Quest 250, the Junior Quest, the Copper Basin 300 and others. She particularly enjoyed working with teens and rookie mushers at the back of the pack whose goal was to 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 get out and move to Vermont where she and her partner and practice manager Becky Roberts are now at home.
Relief work in Burlington and St. Albans led to the opening of Vet To Pet Mobile Veterinary Service in August 2005. Soon it became time to get the mobile service out of the house and Susan and Becky realized Burlington needed a small, storefront vet. The Old North End Veterinary Clinic was opened in November 2006. These two practices are quite successful, offering a variety of services and currently supporting 2000 clients and their pets.
In her off time, Susan enjoys hiking, walking, running, snowshoeing, waterskiing, gardening, photography and drawing her own greeting cards. In September 2008, she and Becky hiked the Grand Canyon, rim to rim. They plan to tackle it again for Susan’s 50th birthday which is coming up fast. She and Becky live with their pets: Fang, the sweet old cat with kidney disease, who wandered up to the house in 1992 while Susan was doing her pre-vet studies in Peoria, Illinois; and Fury, the four year old happy cat from our own Humane Society of Chittenden County. Our dear old border collie Killian, clinic mascot and pal extraordinaire, succumbed to old age in November, 2010. RIP Killy.