Meet our Vet Team!
Melissa 'Mel' McKay
Qualifications: Certificate IV Veterinary Nursing, Cert II Equine Industry, IDA Certificate K9 training
Years of Experience: 10 years nursing and around 16 years in total within the animal industry
What pets do you have at home?: Bastiaan the Friesian Sporthorse, Hex the Devon Rex, Freyja the DLH cat (adopted from Animal Aid), Kairo the Chinese Crested & Badger, Ophelia, Eris, Mazikeen & Lililth the variety of pythons
What Is Your Special Skill?: Staying calm and level headed during emergency situations, wrangling big dogs and making the team laugh with my incredible dance moves
Describe A Great Day In The Clinic: Weird and complex surgical cases from start to finish
Gracie Stella
Qualifications: BASc
Years of Experience: Began volunteering at Animal Aid in 2018 during my studies and have been employed here as a nurse for the past 3 years
What pets do you have at home?: Willow the part time canine vet nurse and two naughty torti manx cats Hazel Kitten and Mama Manx, both foster failed from Animal Aid.
What Is Your Special Skill?: Staying calm and level headed during emergency situations, wrangling big dogs and making the team laugh with my incredible dance moves
Describe A Great Day In The Clinic: Preparing the perfect histological specimen for the vets and finding the best deals when doing the ordering for the clinic and kennels team
Julie McCullough
Qualifications: Certificate IV Veterinary Nursing
Years of Experience: 18 years
What pets do you have at home?: Flash the one eyed white cat and Logan the mixed breed dog with big bushy eyebrows.
What Is Your Special Skill?: Nursing and nuturing neo-natal kittens
Describe A Great Day In The Clinic: When I get all my paperwork completed correctly and quickly
Charlotte Krueger
Qualifications: Certificate IV Veterinary Nursing
Years of Experience: 10 years nursing
What pets do you have at home?: A Cavoodle called Remmy and a cockatiel called Spencer
What Is Your Special Skill?: Staying positive and always smiling
Describe A Great Day In The Clinic: Surgical nursing with the best team ever, cuddling kittens and eating lots of chocolate
Tegan DiPietrantonio
Qualifications: Certificate IV Veterinary Nursing, Bachelor of Agricultural Science, Bachelor of Veterinary Technology and currently studying Veterinary Medicine
Years of Experience: 7 years
What pets do you have at home?: Turbo the Kelpie and Kirby the Cockatiel
What Is Your Special Skill?: I am an absolute bird nerd!
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Sharan MacDonald
Qualifications: Certificate II in Veterinary Nursing
Years of Experience: 12 years
What pets do you have at home?: Three very loved dogs. Lexi and Kira the Chihuahuas and Gypsy the short coated Border Collie.
What Is Your Special Skill?: I’m great at problem solving.
Describe A Great Day In The Clinic: Meeting new family members is always exciting. It’s also very rewarding when all the patients get collected by their familes at the end of the day.
Megan Barclay
Qualifications: Certificate IV Veterinary Nursing
Years of Experience: 18 years
What pets do you have at home?: Thoroughbred horses, a whippet named Wendy and my cat Evie. I also live on a farm so have livestock in the form of a Jersey cow named Coffed, chooks and two pet sheep.
What Is Your Special Skill?: Comforting and caring for pet’s in need.
Describe A Great Day In The Clinic: Working together as a team and being able to find animals their forever home.
Chloe Serritelli
Qualifications: Diploma of Animal Technology
Years of Experience: I started working as a Vet Nurse in 2015
What pets do you have at home?: A beautiful cat named Athena and our new English Staffy puppy named Digga. Also, can’t forget to mention our beautiful boy that passed away recently named Axel, we will love you forever <3
What Is Your Special Skill?: I like to think my special skill is welcoming our patients and their owners into the clinic, juggling jobs for the vets and keeping on top of the duties at reception.
Describe A Great Day In The Clinic: A great day at work for me would including running bloods, organizing, dealing with interesting cases and filling my day with smiling faces and happy pets. Oh, and lots of yummy snacks!
Helen Xue
Qualifications: Bachelor of science, Cert 3 in Lab Skills & Cert 3 in Animal Care
Years of Experience: 1 year
What pets do you have at home?: A Golden Retriever called Pippin, a DLH called Oscar and a flock of chickens called Beatrice, Hilda, Agnus, Mable & Eveline
What Is Your Special Skill?: I’m really good at catching chickens!
Describe A Great Day In The Clinic: Wearing our cute scrub tops, the team getting the rare opportunity to have lunch together, watching our patients make a textbook recovery and be collected by their families at the end of the day.
Lucy Mill
Qualifications: 3rd year bachelor of Veterinary Nursing
Years of Experience: 1 year
What pets do you have at home?: A rescue border collie, a kelpie, a rescue cat, horses, chickens & cattle
What Is Your Special Skill?: Cooking!
Describe A Great Day In The Clinic: Any day that there is lots of healthy puppies and kittens around
Dr. Nico Maritz
Qualifications: BVSc MRCVS
Years of Experience: 32 years
What pets do you have at home?: Irish Wolfhounds, Border Collies, Burmese, Siamese, Malawi Cichlids, two feral sons and a partridge in a pear tree.
What Is Your Special Skill?: I can eat a prodigious amount of chocolate without feeling ill!
Describe A Great Day In The Clinic: Puppies, kittens and kits!!!
Dr. Rupert Baker
Qualifications: BVSc(Hons) MANZCVSc(Avian Health, Aust. Wildlife) PGC (Lean) MBA
Years of Experience: 27 years
What pets do you have at home?: Wookie the Cavoodle and Jimmy the Border Terrier, Lionel the Sussex White Rooster and his five hens, Ari the Gypsy Cob and friends.
What Is Your Special Skill?: Making complex things easy to understand. And Animal Welfare, Dermatology, Cats or Dogs, Wildlife and Birds
Describe A Great Day In The Clinic: I get to meet some great pets and help them and their owners, whilst having a laugh with my team mates.
Dr. Karyn Rayner
Qualifications: BVSc
Years of Experience: Graduated from University of Melbourne in 1994 and started at Animal Aid in early 2015
What pets do you have at home?: Sir Leonard Fluffypants (AKA Lenny) a charcoal moggy adopted from Animal Aid in 2022
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Describe A Great Day In The Clinic: The vet clinic team is an amazing group of people. A great day in the clinicis when you can look back at the end of the day and know that even if it’s been ridiculously busy with health checks and surgeries, you’ve helped to get many of the shelter animals a step closer to being in their forever homes
Dr. Carolyn Warburton
Qualifications: Batchelor of Veterinary Science (hons)
Years of Experience: 12 years
What pets do you have at home?: I have a cat called Cindy Clawford. Cindy was adopted from Animal Aid and loves walking the catwalk at home.
What Is Your Special Skill?: I love everything to do with shelter medicine and getting animals ready for adoption.
Describe A Great Day In The Clinic: A great day for me involves a variety of surgeries for our shelter animals and seeing them go to new homes.
Jillian McSweeney
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