High-quality Veterinary Services in Campbelltown & Surrounds
We Treat Your Pets Like Our Own
The friendly and helpful team at Campbelltown Veterinary Hospital are dedicated to providing the best care for all animals and champion compassion, kindness and understanding. With a lifetime of experience caring for animals and more than 40 years of experience in the industry, Gary—the practice principal—is backed by a strong team of professional vets and nurses.
Take a moment to meet our team and their furry (or feathered) companions:
Meet the Vets
Gary Ashton B.V.Sc. Dip. Appl. Sc.
(Principal Veterinarian)
Born on a dairy farm in Dayboro, a one pub town 60km northwest of Brisbane, Gary loved life on the farm and was always a keen observer of animals, including the platypus in Terrors Creek. He moved to the outskirts of Brisbane for a high school education, but kept returning to the Dayboro farms to work for some extra cash. He has a broad love of agriculture in general; his thoughts were if you want to eat, have clothes on your back, then you must have an interest in agriculture.
After high school, he accepted a scholarship to the Queensland Agricultural College (now part of University of Queensland) to study a general agriculture course. He learnt to study effectively there and three years into the course (leaning towards animal production) realised he would have to compete with veterinarians. He was accepted into Veterinary Science at University of Queensland and graduated at the end of 1979. Gary took his first job at Numurkah near Shepparton Victoria in a dairy practice and worked hard diagnosing diseases.
Soon after, he worked at Kerang in mixed practice before taking up full time position at Mt. Gambier, South Australia in a dairy mixed practice. Gary performed some goat embryo transfer work before taking up a position as a locum at Campbelltown Veterinary Hospital. He has not managed to make it back to Queensland yet!
Gary enjoys small animal medicine and surgery but loves farm animal work as he understands both the medical and financial sides of animal production. To Gary, work is mostly fun and it is great to be able to help both the animals and their owners with their problems. To this day, Gary is always learning.
Gary’s current pets are ‘Lizard’ a Kelpie/Border Collie x working dog, Lizard's granddaughter 'Spider', a grey mare ‘Katie’ & her gelding foal ‘Kabbie’.
Jorid Nordaker
Jorid Nordaker arrived in Australia almost 18 years ago and is now settled with her human family and their fury family members; a rabbit, two dogs, two cats and a shetland pony. Jorid has worked with the Campbelltown Vet Hospital team for seven years and greatly enjoys educating and cooperating with owners about their pet's wellbeing. " I enjoy the owner - pet bond as much as the medicine- they go hand in hand'. Jorid also has a degree in High School Science teaching, so she knows that education and understanding between owner and vet about the pet is essential for best care.
Meet the Nurses
Laura
Laura joined the team at Campbelltown Veterinary Hospital in September 2009. Completing her Certificate IV in Veterinary Nursing in 2011. Laura owns a bernese mountain dog who goes by ‘Texas’ and is a mum to two beautiful girls.
Danielle
Danielle joined the team at Campbelltown Vet hospital in August 2018 and completed her Certificate IV in 2015. Danielle enjoys hand raising neonates and also helping clients with their new puppies at Puppy Puppy Preschool®. She has five fur babies - 4 dogs and 2 cats, Khaleesi an English Staffy, Abel a Rottweiler x, 2 french bulldogs Heff and Nina, Hugo Beans and a new ball of fluff, Keanu.
Carolina
Carolina began working at Campbelltown Veterinary Hospital in late 2017, after completing her Certificate IV Veterinary Nursing course in November 2017. Her favourite part of the job is being able to send long term hospital patients back home to their owners. She has five furry friends (3 cats, 2 dogs) to come home to including: ‘Rascal’ male ragdoll, ‘Pikachu’ male domestic cat, ‘Luna’ a female domestic cat, ‘Chucks’ male mixed dog and ‘Bear’ a male German Shepherd x Rottweiler.
Aimee
Aimee started working at Campbelltown Veterinary Hospital in early 2020. She is a qualified Vet Nurse with 12 years’ experience in the industry. She has a keen interest in emergency nursing and surgery. Currently, Aimee has two Jack Russell Terriers named Archibald (Archie) and Gustava (Gus) as well as a rescue cat Maggie and three rats Pixie, Trixie and Doris. When she isn’t at work, Aimee enjoys spending time and outdoors with her two children and fur babies.
Meaghan
Meaghan started at Campbelltown Veterinary Hospital in August 2020. She is currently studying her certificate IV in Veterinary Nursing. Meaghan has three dogs whose names are MIA, Lola and Obi Wan and one cat named Scar.