Get to Know Our Veterinarians and Care Team

In 1992, he graduated from The Atlantic Veterinary College in PEI. From there he was given his first veterinary position at the Valley Veterinary Hospital in Fredericton, NB. The experience he received early in his career had two major influences on him. The first one was to work in a challenging and diverse environment that made him more efficient and knowledgeable. He learned how to work with various types of pets and their owners. The second and more important influence was Tammy, with whom he worked with at this first job. Tammy’s dedication towards work and passion for animals has helped in shaping Gordon’s life and career. In 1998, they decided it was time to go on their own and start their own veterinary practice. The Maritime Animal Hospital opened for business in April 1998 and has been going strong since then with an amazing team of dedicated people most of who have worked with them since almost the beginning. Gordon is very proud to have three beautiful children, two daughters named Jessica and Katie and one son named Bradley. He also has three cats and two dogs to fill his house.

Dr. Gaunce enjoys performing surgeries, internal medicine and preventative medicine. She especially loves working with geriatric patients.
In her spare time she enjoys showing their cattle at local Maritime shows. She also enjoys swimming and getting out to ski.
Dr. Gaunce believes that pets truly are an important part of the family, and they deserve the best when it comes to medical care, and preventive health.

She has been doing the same job for 27 years and not a single day has been the same. She is inspired by the deep connection that is seen between people and their furry companions. She feels rewarded when she can help a pet through an illness and back to good health.

Dr. Houle specializes in ultrasounds (abdominal, thoracic, soft tissue), as well as an emergency procedure. She also carries an avid interest in cardiology and oncology. In order to perform echocardiograms and manage cardiac patients, she has completed the Advanced Echocardiography Certification. Dr. Houle has vast knowledge in the field of chemotherapy and follows protocols established by board-certified oncologists. She enjoys hiking and camping with her husband and her miniature schnauzer Eddie during her time off.

After completing 8 years working there, she decided to travel and consider her career options. While in university, she discovered that she loved business. Later, she spent a year developing a business plan and deciding on the right location before they (she and her husband) opened the Maritime Animal Hospital in April of 1998.

The Vessey family shares their home with 3 amazing kids, Jessica, Katie and Bradley as well as 2 dogs and 3 cats.

After graduating from high school she studied Animal Science at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. She began working for Maritime Animal Hospital in April 2000 as a veterinary assistant. It included many late night emergencies and a wealth of new information but she enjoyed the challenge and was eventually promoted to hospital manager. She continues to have a passion for veterinary hospital management and overall client and patient communication. In an effort to grow, she tries to attend a variety of continuing education including Dale Carnegie, and the North American Veterinary Conference.

Outside of work she enjoys gardening, hiking and spending time with her husband Philip and four children. Her family also includes Blackie the cat and Wally, their sweet pit bull mix. She feels very fortunate to work with such a fun loving, competent and caring team.

Amy lives in Moncton with her husband Marc, her son Olivier and her dog Mack. She enjoys walking/running the nature trails, painting and doing crafts in her spare time. She loves her job as a Registered Veterinary Technician at Maritime Animal Hospital and she treats her co-workers as her extended family who are all dedicated and caring.

She enjoys spending time with her family and her pets. She currently has Poppy, a mix breed dog and three cats, Gemma, Sherman & Ruby.

In high school, she took part in co-op education where she worked at the SPCA for 4 months. From there, she made a decision to make a career caring for animals. She graduated from a veterinary Assistant program in 2004, and she worked at a clinic in Fredericton before joining Maritime Animal Hospital in 2005. She loves working here because of the people working around, the special relationships with the clients and most importantly, the animals. In her spare time, she chills with her husband Michael, daughter Brynn, dog Maggie and her three cats Jack, Chip Chip and Toupie Rogelio.

She studied animal science at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College and graduated in 2007 with a Bachelor of Science degree. All her furry family members are rescue animals from various situations. Deacon the pit bull mix, and two cats, Apollo and Drifter, are her current pets.

After high school, she started volunteering at the local SPCA in Gander, NL. Since then, she worked at the Oromocto SPCA, Valley Veterinary Hospital in Fredericton and the Ottawa Valley Veterinary Cooperation in Ontario. She moved back to the Maritimes in 2008 and have been working here at Maritime Animal Hospital as a veterinary assistant since January 2009.
She has a 16 year old daughter, Marina, who also shares her love for animals. Her current pets are a long haired brown tabby cat named Miss Shirley (who is from the Moncton SPCA) and a short haired brown tabby named Hector; for those of you who've been coming to our hospital for many years, probably remember him as one of our clinic cats. He is now spending his retirement years with her!

After 23 years as a veterinary assistant, the best part of her job is knowing the names of our clients and their pets as they walk in the door. She takes great pride in knowing some of the history of their pet, what food they're picking up and who tells the best jokes! These people are like friends to her and she tries to make even the briefest stop pleasant!

A year after graduating from high school, she entered the Veterinary Technician program at Oulton College. Luckily, she landed at Maritime Animal Hospital for training and she has been here ever since. She had to euthanize her own dog that was diagnosed with congestive heart failure. She remembers how wonderful the staff at the clinic were during her difficult time. That was the moment she decided to work with people who had her back during her difficulties. She has been in Maritime Animal Hospital since March of 2010, and her furry family consists of two cats Layla and Paige and a pit bull mix Foxy Roxy.

With love for medicine, she pursued a career in human medicine. Due to unforeseen circumstances, she was unable to continue that line of work. So, she had to find something else to do that would combine everything she enjoyed... animals, people and medicine. And here she is, working as a Veterinary Assistant since 2007 and have enjoyed every minute of it. She presently has a dog and 2 cats; all of which "found" me and keep my house quite busy. She consider herself very fortunate to have found such a rewarding career. 

She attended a veterinary technician program at Horizon College and graduated in 2002. Later she worked at a small animal clinic in Rothesay for the next three years before joining Maritime Animal Hospital’s team in 2010.

When she is not at work, she enjoys spending time with her husband, two young girls, two dogs (Wilson and Olive) and three cats (John, Princess and Striper). She feels proud to be a part of this team and feels that no two days are the same.

She studied at Oulton College to become a veterinary assistant and followed her dreams out west to Canmore, AB. Currently, they have 1 small dog (Maslow), and 6 cats (Tess, Casper, Ali, Basil, Polly and Raider).

Since she started this career, she has adopted a few dogs along the way. She currently has Stella, a terrier mix from the SPCA and her newest addition is Stanlee, a yellow lab. She started working at Maritime Animal Hospital in 2008 and she loves to help clients take care of their pets. Her favourite thing to do outside of work is spending time with family and friends and she also enjoys outdoor activities like camping, hiking and going to the beach.

She had made it a point to find an occupation that allowed her to work with animals. After completing her BSc at the University of Prince Edward Island in Environmental Biology, she continued her academic studies at Oulton College in Moncton, New Brunswick in the Veterinary Technician program. Later, she finished her tech school in 2018. She completed her on-the-job training at Maritime Animal Hospital and she was lucky enough to get an opportunity to continue with them into a career as a full time Registered Veterinary Technician. She is happy to be a part of such a wonderful team. Currently, she has two handsome tabby cats named Siegfried and Fenwick.