Pet hospital now making farm, house calls

Dr. Car­rie Belles has joined the staff at Coun­try View Pet Hos­pi­tal, Inc. in Wilm­ing­ton, as a Mobile Ser­vices Veterinarian.

Dr. Car­rie Belles has joined the staff at Coun­try View Pet Hos­pi­tal, Inc. in Wilm­ing­ton, as a Mobile Ser­vices Vet­eri­nar­ian. She will be avail­able to make farm ani­mal calls, as well as small ani­mal house calls, within a 60 mile radius of the hos­pi­tal, located at State Route 73 and Inter­state 71.

Dr. Belles is a Wilm­ing­ton native who grew up on a small beef cat­tle farm just out­side of Port William. She was a mem­ber of 4-H, where she showed beef cat­tle, and was active in the Wilm­ing­ton Chap­ter of the FFA. She grad­u­ated from Wilm­ing­ton High School as Vale­dic­to­rian in 2002, and grad­u­ated from Wilm­ing­ton Col­lege in 2006.

Dr. Belles earned her Doc­tor of Vet­eri­nary Med­i­cine degree from The Ohio State University’s Col­lege of Vet­eri­nary Med­i­cine in 2011, and was then cho­sen for the highly cov­eted large ani­mal intern­ship at Ohio State’s Hos­pi­tal for Farm Ani­mals. Dr. Belles spent the past year com­plet­ing this intern­ship in Farm Ani­mal Med­i­cine and Surgery, and worked rou­tine and emer­gency cases with such species as dairy and beef cat­tle, small rumi­nants, camelids, com­mer­cial and pot-bellied pigs, and deer. Pro­fes­sion­ally, Dr. Belles is a mem­ber of the Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion of Bovine Prac­ti­tion­ers, the Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion of Small Rumi­nant Prac­ti­tion­ers, and the Acad­emy of Rural Veterinarians.

Dr. Belles joins owner Dr. Jill Thomp­son, and asso­ciate Drs. Patri­cia Haines, Jim Eimer­ma­cher, and Gabrielle DeHart in a newly expanded hos­pi­tal. The hos­pi­tal recently moved from a lease­hold space into a brand new facil­ity. This com­plete pet care facil­ity con­tains an expanded vet­eri­nary hos­pi­tal and a pet resort which houses lux­ury cat and dog board­ing, day­care, groom­ing and retail.

Dr. Belles will be avail­able to make farm ani­mal calls, as well as small ani­mal house calls, within a 60 mile radius of the hos­pi­tal. The loca­tion of Coun­try View at State Route 73 and Inter­state 71 makes it very con­ve­nient for serv­ing the sur­round­ing areas.

“We are so excited to have Dr. Belles at our prac­tice,” says Dr. Thomp­son. “She will allow us to accom­mo­date our farm clients with large ani­mal ser­vices, while also allow­ing us to expand our pet ani­mal ser­vices to the com­fort of our clients’ homes.”

Appoint­ments may be made for in house, haul-in, and mobile vet­eri­nary calls by con­tact­ing Coun­try View at 937–382-7387. You may also visit www.countryviewpets.com for more infor­ma­tion about this practice.

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