Meet our staff – Nursing Staff
Vet staff | Nursing staff | Administration staff
Lisa Barrett
Lisa has been working for The Cat Clinic for over 2 years. She is currently finalising her Certificate II in Animal Studies. Since working here she has developed an interest in rehoming and adoptions, and thoroughly enjoys caring for the many cats that board at our Paddington clinic.
Lisa lives with her very naughty tortoiseshell cat Mai, and would love to have many more pets (if only Mai would allow it).
Amanda Garbowski
Amanda has worked for The Cat Clinic for 2 years. She has recently completed her Certificate II in Animal Studies, and plans to continue her studies with Certificate IV in Veterinary Nursing.
When Amanda started work at the clinic, she did not have a cat of her own. She soon found their love and charming ways impossible to resist. She now lives with a 3yr old Devon Rex who has quickly become a family favourite.
Heather Windle
Heather developed her love of cats while working at an animal welfare shelter. She joined her big sister Shelley at The Cat Clinic in 2004 and so far has had no family arguments!
Heather is our adoption centre coordinator and has been responsible for finding homes for more than 100 homeless cats since taking on this role. She spends lots of her day looking after naughty little kittens and getting them ready for their new homes. She has 2 cats Muffin and Shadow which are classified as totally spoilt.
Kaylene Craig
Kaylene started at The Cat Clinic in November 2006. Having always had a love for animals, she enjoys the challenges of working as a vet nurse. She grew up in the country town of Laidley with the family dogs, her cat Cuddles and two horses. She now shares her home with husband Simon, two sons Lucas, 2 and Riley 9mths, and staffy Trilby.
Kaylene currently greets clients and their cats on the weekends. No doubt she will soon adopt one of the cats from the clinic to join her family.
Regan Cunningham
Regan’s love of cats and nursing has made her a valuable member of The Cat Clinic team since 1996 and has more years of nursing cats under her belt than anyone else.
You can be assured your cat is in great hands when Regan is looking after them. She has taken her studies in veterinary nursing as far as she can, with a double Diploma in Veterinary Nursing (Administration and Surgical) and last year she received an award from The Australian Veterinary Association for Excellence in Veterinary Nursing.
Regan’s also has a full-time job at home looking after her rapidly growing beautiful young family. Her twins, Trinity and Charlie are now 3½ years old and her baby Harmony is about to have her first birthday. She has Chockie the brown Burmese, Lucy the Tibetan Spaniel X Jack Russel and Cory the cod.
Stacey Seater
Stacey has been nursing for 5 years and joined The Cat Clinic in 2006. She was born and raised in country Victoria and has been in QLD for 8 years.
Stacey is one of the senior surgical nurses and spends her days organising and attending to surgical cases. She has a great passion for cats and their well being so plans to stay at The Cat Clinic for many years to come.
She has 3 cats and 2 dogs of her own and loves cats with squashed in faces.
Katherine Ball
My name is Katherine, I am originally from England and moved to Australia about five and a half years ago.
I studied for my Veterinary nurse qualification in Perth and have been nursing for 18 months. I am totally cat mad and own several of my own cats as well as two dogs.
I love the industry I am in, and am totally committed to caring for every cat that we see!!
Pippa Norris
Pip is a qualified veterinary nurse who has been working at The Cat Clinic since 2006. After studying and working in the animal industry for 5 years, Pip wanted to fulfil her dreams of working with just cats and decided to specialise in feline nursing.
As well as two beautiful Burmese cats Mia and Jethro, Pip has adopted Paddington favourite Prince, an 18yr old Singapore street cat beloved by all.
Becky Manderson
Since Becky was young she had always wanted to work with animals, so after finishing High School, it was what she was going to do.
Becky joined The Cat Clinic team in October 2007, and has just recently completed her Certificate IV in Veterinary Nursing in November 2010.
She also has a cat of her own named “Dutchess” who is treated like royalty and is very spoilt. As well as a new member “Brunte” a Border Collie cross Kelpie puppy.
When not working with animals or playing with her own, Becky enjoys Ten Pin Bowling and has previously represented Australia
overseas.
Lydia Adams
Lydia has always dreamed of a career working with animals (cats in particular). So after 20 years working in retail, she decided it was timefor a change, and she completed her Cert IV in Veterinary Nursing in 2006. She then worked as a nurse in Sydney, before moving to Brisbane, where she is now lucky enough to be part of the fantastic team at The Cat Clinic.
Lydia shares her house with her furry children, Oscar, Benson, Chloe, Sweet-Pea and Scruffy the dog.
Leah Caldwell
Leah has always had a passion for animals and has been working in the animal industry for the past 7 years. Working as a Zookeeper, she wanted to be able to help the animals and decided to study vet nursing.
She now has a Cert IV in Veterinary Nursing, and her love of all things feline led her to The Cat Clinic in 2009. Leah has 3 beautifu,l black and white kids at home, Rus, Mac and Holly.
Lynda Hartley
Lynda has only recently joined The Cat Clinic at the beginning of 2010. She has just started studying for her Cert IV in Veterinary Nursing. Having come from an enjoyable career in Childcare, Lynda is now looking forward to a change, and is excited to be working in another environment that she is very passionate about.
She is not only kept busy at work, but also at home. She has 3 beautiful moggies, Pooka, Georgie and Lulu. Lynda can be found welcoming you and your kitties on arrival at our Clayfield clinic.