Vet Team

She is passionate about Shelter Medicine, dog training and the human-animal bond. She shares her life with two human children, and several ‘fur children’ (two Burmese cats, a Dalmatian dog and a friendly goat).

Polly has a Bichon cross Poodle named Bertie who loves to run at the beach. After studying in Melbourne and working at multiple vet practices throughout the years both in Australia and in the UK, Polly brings a wealth of experience to our clinic.

Polly is passionate about small animal health and dermatology. In her spare time, she loves relaxing at the beach and spending time with her family!

Following her passion in shelter medicine she became the first onsite vet here at Geelong Animal Welfare Society. Roshani is now continuing her education through Sydney University CVE in small animal medicine with the intention of sitting the membership exams in the future.

In her spare time Roshani enjoys spending time with her two daughters. She has two pet birds, adopted from GAWS.

Ian is very passionate about animal welfare and has loved every minute at GAWS.

Ian has a maltese x poodle at home named Cappie. His favourite thing about being a Vet is helping that have not had a great start to life.

In his spare time, he enjoys snowboarding, ice skating and swordcraft

She currently has two pets of her own; Summit, a Swiss Shepard and Illidan, a tabby cat. Noriel has always had a keen interest in the treatment of cats and has been her passion from a young age. In her spare time, Noriel enjoys hiking, scuba diving and spending time with her family.

April enjoys all aspects of her role in the vet clinic and is always willing to help out and try something new! April has two dogs, Arnold a miniature dachshund and Hamish the Labrador, as well as her GAWS rescue cat Winston. Hamish recently retired from working as a drug sniffer in the Melbourne Airport and is loving retirement.

April enjoys the pathology involved in medical cases and caring for all animals. Outside of work, April enjoys taking her dogs to the beach, travelling and going out with friends.

Felicitys own house is practically an animal shelter with two dogs, two cats, one pig, three sheep and about twenty or so chickens and ducks. She has even brought her pigs into the clinic to desex!

Felicity is always up for chat and ready to offer advice on all your animal needs! Felicity enjoys exercising and spending time at her farm.

Maddie has wanted to be a vet nurse from a young age and is very passionate about developing a great bond between animals and their owners. At home, Maddie has her own kitten, a domestic medium hair cat named Olivia.

In her spare time, she enjoys playing tennis, going to the beach and travelling. She always has a smiling face around the clinic and happy to help anyone out!

Olivia has a maltese shitzu called Betty who's special talent is clapping her paws together. She also has 3 cats – Taco, Harry and Oscar who were adopted from GAWS. Olivia also has some silky chickens, Marg and Barb.

Her favourite part about being a vet nurse is the welfare side of things and bringing an animal back to their happy, healthy selves. 

In her spare time, Olivia enjoys hanging out with her friends and family.

Jess’s key interest lies with the animals at the clinic and she loves treating different medical cases and expanding her knowledge. Jess is a very dedicated nurse who enjoys the sometimes long hours involved with nursing sick animal back to perfect health.

Jess is also busy outside of GAWS with her Bengal cat Django and her horse Bob. Jess recently adopted a puppy from GAWS named Louie, she performed a DNA test and found he is the following breeds - Golden Retriver, Labrador, Border Collie, Kelpie and Maltese!

Marnie has a keen interest in medicinal nursing and really enjoys working for animal welfare. She is an expert in foster caring pregnant mother dogs and takes on as many at a time as she can! Marnie has two dogs at home - Tully, a labrador and Samson, a murray retriver. She always has chooks and some friendly cats!

In her spare time, she enjoys scuba diving and looking after her little farm of animals.