The Venturing Vet, LLC

04/11/2021

It’s been a while since I last have an update (life has been crazy)! I spent most of my summer working with wildlife and veterinary students in Panama which was an unforgettable experience! I got to work with sloths, venomous and non-venomous snakes, a coati, numerous Amazon parrots and macaws, rabbits, porcupine, turtles, fish and more!! I loved teaching and working with students and the amazing team at Centro Veterinario Panama and APPC!

30/05/2021

✌🏼years of life on the road as The Venturing Vet👩🏼‍⚕️! Year two was certainly a challenging one, but fortunately living in an RV is actually ideal during a global pandemic (who knew?). I worked in New York, Colorado, California, Maryland and Texas. I visited 9 more National Parks this year and hiked a lot of miles! It’s been a year of solitude and gratitude and I’ve learned a lot about myself while experiencing the beauty in this country in the midst of one of the scariest years of my life. I survived the Austin snowpocalypse of 2021 (and so did Freedom), the wildfires in RMNP, the Covid-19 pandemic and the great tumbleweed attack of 2020 (see video footage). I still love being a veterinarian and am so glad I followed this crazy dream of mine to pursue a life of travel intertwined with my passion for veterinary medicine. It hasn’t been easy, but it has definitely been worth the blood, sweat and tears that got me here. 🍾Cheers to year three and all of the wild and wonderful adventures down the road🚌

19/05/2021

Great news! Officially recieved my Connecticut and Florida licensure in the mail! Still waiting on my Washington license to be official but excited to add some more east coast states to my coverage area!

06/04/2021

We are so happy to be back in beautiful California and always love working with the amazingly talented team at Pets Referral Center in Berkeley! I will be traveling to Denver intermittently throughout the month of April to work at Parker Center Animal Clinic and will be moving to Denver to work there for the entire month of May. How lucky am I to get to work at two of my favorite hospitals in two different states this month?!

We will be working our way east in early June so that I can travel to Panama for 6 weeks this summer to work with various wildlife species (sloths!!) and to teach veterinary students the wonderful world of wildlife conservation and medicine!

Very exciting and busy few months ahead and I am very thankful and grateful to the hospitals who have reached out for relief all the way into March 2022!! Excited to add some new hospitals in some new states to our ever-growing list of some of the most innovative and compassionate veterinary hospitals across the country! As always, thank you for your support and stay tuned for where we will be headed next!

23/02/2021

Thank you to everyone for your understanding in the unprecedented weather event we suffered in Texas last week! I’m happy to say that we appear to have made it through relatively unscathed! No pipes burst when we got our heat and water back! I’m glad we made the decision to stay with friends because when we got home I saw that the water in Frankie’s bowl had frozen inside the RV 🥶 I am resuming my last week of work here in Austin at the Austin Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Center and will be headed to California on March 1st as scheduled!

P.S. in addition to the new CT and WA licenses I have also now officially submitted the paperwork for my FL license (due to un-relentless and popular demand 😉).

18/02/2021

I am receiving a lot of emails from various hospitals trying to book dates. Please be patient with me. This week has been extremely stressful, emotional and physically dangerous for me and my pets. As many of you know, I am in Austin, TX and returned from a trip into the worst winter storm Texas has seen (maybe ever?). I wasn’t initially worried about the RV as I’ve survived negative temps and cold in CO with no problem. This was different. We have no access to propane for heat, water to keep our lines from freezing and we cannot move due to the treacherous roads. Texas as a whole was in no way prepared for this type of weather and because of this we have suffered catastrophically. We were forced to evacuate after the temperatures in the RV were too low (38 degrees). I’ve been lucky to have good friends in the area who have taken me in and given me, Frankie and Willow a safe and warm place to stay. We are now going to be living at the hospital as most of my colleagues cannot get in or out to work and I need to relieve the ones who have been stuck there since Sunday. I am distraught at the thought of the damage sustained to my RV during this storm, and am trying to figure out a plan of action as it generally takes months to get anything repaired in an RV and I cannot live in it for months without water.

Please please please know that I am getting your emails but right now my sole concentration is keeping up safe and alive. I will reply to your emails as soon as I can, I promise I am not ignoring you. Please also pray for those in Texas who are going on a week without power, food, heat or water. Thank you for your patience during this unprecedented and emotionally difficult time.

12/02/2021

✨Lot’s of exciting announcements for 2021! I will soon (paperwork pending) have added another two state licenses to the list! This means that if you or any hospitals you know need a skilled, professional, passionate, hard working relief vet to provide services in the state of Washington or Connecticut I will be available! 🥳👉🏼Don’t forget- I’m also currently licensed in Maryland, Vermont, New York, California, Oregon, Colorado, Texas and Virginia!

I’m currently booked until the end of May in California and Colorado. I am waiting to schedule June-August pending the future travel restrictions for Covid as I’m hoping to be returning to South Africa to continue my passion project sometime this summer!

If I don’t make it to Africa the tentative plan will be serving the east coast during the summer months! If you have requests for the summer months please do not hesitate to send these to me via my website www.theventuringvet.net or directly to my email: [email protected] and I will save all the requests and notify you if I will indeed be in your area and able to provide services!

Hope everyone is staying healthy and safe! As our time is winding down in Texas we will surely miss our friends and work family at Austin Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Center, but hope to be back next year!

19/12/2020

To all the hospitals I keep making it a priority to come back and work for..this is exactly why! Thank you for allowing me to be the best Veterinarian I can be!

Powerful words!

24/11/2020

As many of you know I recently lost my best friend, Clyde very suddenly while I was working in Colorado. I suspect that Clyde had a brain tumor which metastasized to his lungs. Unfortunately/fortunately he showed no signs of being sick until he was critically ill and quickly declined at which point I had to make the very difficult decision to let him go to be with his sister Bonnie💔

Frankie, Willow and I have said goodbye to Colorado and made our way south to Texas for the winter. I will be working in Austin at Austin Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Center for the winter.

This week, Frankie and I headed North to our home state of Maryland to provide services to one of my favorite hospitals- Pets on the Shore Veterinary Hospital in Salisbury, MD.

Later in December I will head to another favorite hospital- PETS Referral Center in Berkeley, CA, to ring in the new year with some of my favorite veterinarians and veterinary technicians/staff!

Very grateful for these opportunities to work in some wonderful hospitals across the country and to be able to try to help manage the enormous caseload and additional stress on veterinary hospitals caused by Covid this year. I do not know what next year will bring as this year certainly did not follow the carefully planned travel schedule I had originally created. I am truly thankful for my clients who have entrusted me to come in to their hospitals and serve their patients and the colleagues I have had the pleasure to work alongside during this challenging year. I may not be able to travel as much as I would have hoped or see my friends and family but I still get to do what I love every day-help animals and their people👩🏼‍⚕️

02/10/2020

We have made it to our next destination- Colorado! I will be working at a couple hospitals in the Denver metro area: the Animal Emergency and Specialty Center, Parker Center Animal Clinic and the Community Pet Hospital. I’m very excited to be working with such awesome veterinary hospitals while in here in Colorado! I will be providing relief veterinary services in the area until November 12th and then we will be off to Austin, TX again! We have loved exploring in the mountains and some of Colorado’s national parks so far. Looking forward to starting my first shift tomorrow morning!

14/07/2020

UPDATE: Since Covid😷has completely changed my plans for this year I figured I’d give a quick update on where I am and what I’m doing now!

I spent the month of June in Maryland🦀 and got to work with my girls at Pets On The Shore Veterinary Hospital in Salisbury, MD again! Shortly after we headed up to the ⛰Adirondacks in NY for the summer!

I just finished a week of work at Lake Placid Animal Hospital🥇 which was wonderful! Next I’ll be working at For Pets Sake Animal Center in Glens Falls, NY just south of Lake George.

🚌Freedom has been in the shop since mid June getting some much needed repairs done, hopefully she will be done next week.

For now we are all enjoying our time on Lake George in NY🌲🥂with family and are staying safe and healthy!

🎉In other news, I recently obtained another state license to add to the list! Can you guess which one? It looks like I’ll be headed to ________ in late September until mid November this year If all goes to plan!

Hope everyone is staying healthy out there👩🏼‍⚕️

30/05/2020

Today marks one year since I became The Venturing Vet👩🏼‍⚕️ and set off across the country in Freedom🚌, my RV. A beautiful year of adventures🌲, new friends👯‍♀️, adorable patients🐰, pushing my driving limits⚠️, growing as a veterinarian, leaving my comfort zone and admiring our country’s beauty🏞. I visited 9 National Parks, worked in 6 different states, drove coast to coast twice and spent a lot of time on the road🛣. I still can’t believe this is my life, but am eternally grateful I made the decision to live it🤙🏼 Cheers to year two and all of the adventures that life on the road brings🍾🥂Thank you to all my friends, colleagues and family who supported me with this crazy idea and always believed in me.

06/04/2020

With everything that is going on right now, I hope that everyone is healthy and safe. Covid-19 has really thrown a wrench in my well laid out plans for this year so far. When the lock down started I was on my way to St. Kitts to give lectures to students at my alma mater Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine and I had to cancel this trip. My scheduled work in Oregon also had to be cancelled due to the virus. While it’s not official as of yet, I’m almost certain my highly anticipated work in South Africa this summer will also be cancelled.

Living the lifestyle I live, it’s been a difficult situation to navigate. I travel for work and right now travel is obviously heavily restricted. I’m very far away from all of my family although I do have a wonderful network of friends out here on the west coast. Due to all of the unforeseen circumstances I’ve had to pivot and change my schedule. I will now be heading back to the East Coast in May and will be working in Maryland for half of May and all of June. I then plan on heading to the Adirondacks in New York to work in July, August and part of September.

2020 was looking like a dream year for me, and all of that has been quickly shattered but I’m thankful for the work I do still have and that for right now me, Clyde, Willow and Frankie are all safe and healthy. I am very sad about having to leave California as I’ve not gotten to enjoy it at all so far (shelter in place order).

To all my friends, colleagues and family please stay healthy and safe out there!

26/02/2020

Quick and exciting announcement! I will be getting licensed in two more states this year! Florida and Vermont! If you know of any hospitals or veterinarians who may need some coverage this year, you’re welcome to spread the word! I am currently scheduled until July 1st this year and will update everyone when I know where this crazy adventure takes me next!

04/02/2020

Update!! I will be leaving Texas at the end of February and heading to San Francisco, CA for all of March and April! On the way I will explore Carlsbad Caverns, White Sands National Park, Joshua Tree National Park and Sequoia/Kings National Park! Looking forward to working in the Bay Area for the next couple months!

I will also be heading down to St. Kitts to give some lectures to the RUSVM Veterinary Business Management Association students in March!

In addition I would like to announce I will be headed to South Africa at the end of May through the end of June! I have accepted a veterinary position with Loop Abroad in which I will teach undergraduate and veterinary students about South African wildlife species and conservation!

21/11/2019

Quick update! I’ve finished my 2 month stay in Salisbury, MD working at Pets on The Shore Veterinary Hospital and it was a bittersweet goodbye! I’ll definitely miss the wonderful staff, clients and of course patients I’ve worked with during my time there!

I headed south in early November and am now officially settled into my new city- Austin, Texas! I’m currently working at Austin Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Center as well as Allure Pet Specialists! I’m tentatively planning on staying in Austin until the end of March! I will keep you updated on where the next move will be, but for now I’m going to enjoy the weather, food and music down here in the state capital.

**pictures are from our brief stay in Little Rock, Arkansas! It was very late at night when we stopped in Dumplin, Tennessee and we left early in the morning in thick fog so no pictures from that leg of the trip!

13/09/2019

For those of you following my travels-next stop is Salisbury, MD where I will be staying and working at Pets on the Shore! I’m very excited to be working back in my home state and so close to the beach!
During this time I will also be headed to California (without Freedom) to work at one of my favorite hospitals- Pets Emergency and Referral Center in Berkeley for a week (how lucky am I?!).
Following my time in Maryland, in November I will be headed to Austin, TX for the winter! Very exciting news as this girl has never been to the lone star state!

09/09/2019

Hello, I am The Venturing Vet and I travel all around the USA in my RV (Freedom) with my two dogs (Bonnie and Clyde) and cat (Willow). I am currently licensed in California, Oregon, Maryland, New York, Virginia and Texas! I provide relief veterinary services for Emergency and General Practices. If you would like to book me to provide relief coverage for your hospital please visit my website www.theventuringvet.net for more information, and to see where I am in the country currently! I will be adding more states as I go, so be sure to check back to see when I will be in your state! If I have already worked for your hospital, I'd love it if you would leave a review or comments!

Thanks so much for your support!

Kelly