We at Heathmont Animal Hospital are a team that is dedicated to outstanding service to both animals and their owners. At our hospital, we recognise the importance of the bond that exists between people and their pets. As our motto says, we gear our services to providing “special care” for those animals that are more than just pets but are in fact “special friends” of their owners.
Our commitment to excellent customer service was recognised by the Office of Fair Trading when we won an Award of Merit in the Victorian Fair Trading Awards as well as being a finalist 2 years running in the Maroondah Business Awards.
We see our role as helping you as our client to keep your pet in the best of health. This means we endeavour to involve you in decisions concerning the treatment and care of your pet. We believe in recommending the best, but also offering other options according to clients’ individual circumstances.
Meet the Team
(BVSc, MACVSc (Vet Dentistry), BBSc, Post Grad Dip Psych.)
Peter has been the Practice owner here at the Heathmont Animal Hospital for the past 25 years. His professional interests inlcude surgery, animal dentistry and behaviour of both animals and humans. Peter is married with 3 children. In his spare time he enjoys (sort of) long distance running, playing the cello and is very involved with the children’s program and social justice group at Citylife church.
Karyn has been with the team for just over 10 years and is very popular with our clients. Her gentle manner is especially appreciated by young and infirm animals alike. Karyn has a special interest in pocket pets such as rabbits, rats and mice.
At home, both Karyn and her husband are quite passionate about planting local native plants in their garden to encourage the local wildlife. For her holidays she loves to go bush walking and camping where she can get away from it all.
Karyn is back from maternity leave with her first baby working part time.
Tracie began at Heathmont Animal Hospital back in 1994. She has her Diploma in Veterinary Nursing and also holds her certificate of Animal Technology. Tracie has been working in the animal field for 25 years experiencing a wide range of animal fields including Obedience, kennel work, research work and showing of dogs.Along with her husband and children Tracie shares her home with Kouta the Hungarian Viszla and Tahli the Miniature Schnauzer. These days Tracie spends her time at HAH out the back caring for your beloved pets when they are in for surgery or sick in hospital. When not at HAH Tracie fills in her time with the family and Scouting.
Liz has been with us here at the Heathmont Animal Hospital for over 6 years now. Her nursing interests include client education & interaction, surgical nursing, assisting vets with procedures and nursing patients back to their recovery and Wildlife, after nursing many baby possum orphans on numerous occasions.
Her qualifications include Cert IV in Veterinary Nursing and an Introduction to the Zoology of Australian Wildlife.
Liz’s outside hobbies include her family, friends, animal population at home and being a mum to her daughter Ella.
Elyse has been with us here at Heathmont Animal Hospital for just over 4 years now and has recently graduated in Cert IV Veterinary Nursing. Her nursing interests include surgery, client interaction and running the clinics ‘Slimmers Club’. Elyse’s family of pets include her 2yr old Saluki “Zahrie”and her 10yr old Cocker Spaniel “Abby”, as well as her foster pets that she looks after for clients.
Outside of work Elyse enjoys staying fit by getting involved in Netball & Pilates.
Christine is known for her gentle & friendly manner whilst grooming here at the Heathmont Animal Hospital.
She escaped the corporate world to pursue her career and follow her life long passion with animals. She qualified at NMIT 2006 in Dog Grooming and is experienced with all different breeds and sizes.
Diva joined our team 11 years ago. She was found as a kitten, strolling along the Heathmont shops — weaving her way amongst shoppers’ legs and generally making her presence known. She was brought to us as a stray and even though we tried all avenues, we could not locate an owner for her. We all thought this was quite amazing given her extremely slick, soft coat and outgoing (to say the least), personality.
It was decided that as she had all the right qualities for a clinic cat, she would be allowed to oversee the management here, a job she has taken very seriously. Diva now spends her day escorting patients into the clinic, jumping into delivery vans and clients cars, or more often that not lolling about on the front desk.
MAESTRO. came to us as a hungry, skinny stray who just wandered into the home of one of our clients who just happens to have 3 large dogs. Normally we try and rehome strays but Diva seemed to really like this new boy. He had such an outgoing personality, so we decided to keep him and named him Maestro to complement Diva. Maesto’s specialty is opening large bags of dog and cat food in the reception area hence he is on a constant diet.
