Kirkcaldy Vets4Pets

Caitie is originally from California, but qualified as a vet from the University of Edinburgh and has stayed in Scotland ever since. She has worked in both general practice and emergency medicine and has keen interests in surgery, diagnostics, as well as teaching and mentoring nurses and newly graduated veterinarians. She loves all animals, but especially enjoys working with felines. In her spare time, Caitie enjoys traveling, hill walking with her dog, Rory, and can often be found singing while working behind the scenes in the clinical areas of the practice.

I attended Ross University in St. Kitts for my pre-clinical studies and then completed my final year in Edinburgh for my clinical studies, graduating in 2019. I then sat the MRCVS in 2019, and have now practiced in both the US and am now permanently in the UK. I enjoy internal medicine, dermatology, and imaging at our practice and I am passionate about having discussions with owners in consults to ensure that I answer all of their questions and make sure their concerns are addressed about their furry family member.

Outside of work, I spend time with my two dogs - Daphne, a lurcher rescue and Juniper, my Newfoundland. I also have cats and hens at home that keep me busy! I also enjoy traveling, swimming, reading, and baking in my spare time.

I graduated in 2012 from Edinburgh and have worked in a variety of mixed and small animal clinics. I have experience in emergency and critical care and particularly enjoy seeing wildlife and exotic cases. I travel the world volunteering my time with shelters for homeless animals and have worked with rhinos, elephants, monkeys, giraffe, lions and cheetah in Southern Africa. I am also very passionate about conservation and the illegal wildlife trade and have worked with orphaned chimpanzees and sea turtles entangled in ghost gear. In the surgery I love seeing my geriatric patients and carrying out arthritis pain management clinics and helping to improve quality of life. In my spare time I enjoy beach walks and hiking with my Golden Retriever, kayaking, snorkelling and learning to freedive.

I graduated from SRUC in 2017 and have since worked in small animal clinics both here in Scotland and in New Zealand. While in New Zealand I worked with a variety of animals, my favourites being the native New Zealand birds. Throughout my career I have been lucky enough to work with orthopaedic surgeons, cardiologists and a feline specialist. In practice my passion lies in surgery, wound care and anaesthesia, although most aspects of Veterinary Nursing interest me. I love the learning and variety that comes with the job – no day is the same!

When I’m not at work I like hiking, exploring Scotland and when I can I love to travel. Unfortunately I don’t have any pets of my own but my housemates have 4 chickens called Eunice, Lindsay, Liz and Ruth and a cat called Nala.

After graduating in Kennel, Cattery, Animal Centre Management I have worked in various veterinary environments as receptionist before stepping up to Practice Manager and working with Vets4Pets since 2017 at various practices before coming to Kirkcaldy recently.

I was a Pet Bereavement Support Worker with The Blue Cross for many years and using that compassion and empathy within our practice is of exceptional importance to me.
I admire the commitment and passion from both our clinical and non clinical team at Kirkcaldy as they daily show, above and beyond, how much they care! I also really enjoy building long term client relations as well as looking forward to meeting and bonding with our new patients too (with puppy and kitten cuddles of course)!

When not at work, I spend time with my family and pets, 2 dogs (Dudley & Dolly), 1 cat (Twinkle) and an African Grey Parrot (Arnie) who chats more than I do! I also keep myself busy being keen on all different types of craft work in any spare time I can find.

I joined Vets4Pets Kirkcaldy in 2021 as a Client Care Advisor after previously working in administration, with not having any pets of my own at the moment my favourite part of my job is meeting all the cute little puppies and getting lots of cuddles.

When I’m not at work I enjoy spending time with my family.

I only started with Vets4Pets back in November and can honestly say I have finally discovered my passion.

Everyday is something different and dealing with not only our furry patients but the human ones too as we give our best to the complete family and not just the pet.

We have an amazing Clinical team and the non clinical team are just as fab. Its our wee work family.

I have my own baby girl called Bella who is a complete princess and doesn’t believe she is a cat.

As the saying goes…find a job you love… you will never work a day in your life.

I have worked for Vets4Pets for a little over a year. I have always worked with pets throughout my career and can’t imagine doing anything else. I love meeting all our clients and their gorgeous pets. At home I have a Russian Dwarf hamster called Haggis.