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Exotics

Providing expert care for exotics and zoo animals

Sarah Brown MA Vet MB Cert Zoo Med GP Cert (ExAp) MRCVS

Sarah qualified from Cambridge University Vet School in 2000, where she was president of the University Veterinary Zoological Society. She then spent 18 months in mixed practice in Kent before moving to Leeds in 2002 to join Holly House Veterinary Hospital. She has a particular interest in treating reptiles, especially chelonia, and small pet mammals, and gained both the RCVS certificate in Zoological Medicine and the ESVPS General Practitioner certificate in Exotic Animal Practice in 2006. She now also holds RCVS Advanced Veterinary Practitioner (AVP) status in Zoological Medicine. Sarah has presented at BVZS congress and is lead author of a chapter in the forthcoming BSAVA Manual of Reptiles. She is currently preparing to study for the RCVS Zoological Medicine Diploma (Reptilian).

Eleanor Wilson MRCVS BVSc GPcertExAP

Ellie qualified from Bristol University Veterinary School in 2012. During her student years she was involved in wild animal rehabilitation and relocation in South Africa and completed her final year elective rotation at Bristol Zoo. Ellie started work at Holly House soon after graduating and in 2015 completed the ESVPS General Practitioner certificate in Exotic Animal Practice.  Ellie has been a keen herpetologist since childhood and continues to have a special interest in reptile medicine and surgery. 

Richard Battersby BVetMed GPCert(ExAP) PgC(EAS) MRCVS

Richard graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in 2012. As a student, he developed his interest and clinical skills in exotic animal medicine and surgery, having spent two summers working at Taiping Zoo, Malaysia. After graduating, he moved back to Yorkshire where he worked in a small animal and exotic animal practice for 5 years before moving to Holly House in 2018.

Richard gained an ESVPS General Practitioner Certificate in Exotic Animal Practice in 2018 and a year later was awarded his Post-Graduate Certificate in Exotic Animal Studies. He is currently working towards Advanced Practitioner status. His particular interests lie in treating reptiles and psittacines, and he enjoys the challenges of surgery, endoscopy and client education.

Services Provided

  • Routine health consultations
  • Hibernation advice and prehibernation examinations
  • Imaging and diagnostic investigations
  • Surgical procedures
  • Oesophagostomy tube placement
  • Hospitalisation for medical stabilisation
  • Dental treatment
  • Emergency treatment

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