Hello there, I’m Charli, one of our veterinary nurses here at Hampton Park. I joined the practice in 2009, and I have a passionate interest in animal behaviour. Since having shoulder surgery, I have become a member of the customer care team. I love to help clients and their fur babies with whatever they need out the front of house. Prior to starting my vet nurse career I was a human nurse, but my heart lies with animal nursing.

Along with my assistant Sunny (my Kelpie), I run our puppy school training. I am always looking forward to helping owners raise happy, healthy puppies and teaching them some manners.

I have a love of all animals and my hobby farm is testament to this by having 2 dogs, Sunny the Kelpie and Penny the Jack Russell, 3 cats named Molly, Bobbie and Philip, 1 cow called Macie (my pet Miniature Belted Galloway), 3 goats, Theodore, Franklin and Butthead, 2 chickens, 1 duck, 17 sheep and 2 budgies. Outside of work I enjoy spending time with my family, friends and animals doing work around the farm.

From an early age I had more than a fondness of animals, we always had a family dog and much to my parents horror I was always the child who brought home the school guinea pig and mice to look after on weekends. Any pocket money I collected I would visit our butcher on the way home from primary school and buy our dog ‘Rover’ a bone, quite often a struggle as I would buy the biggest bone to carry home on the 1.5km walk. Over the years we had a ducks, a few chickens with the Rooster and a cat named Tiger.

Growing up I always wanted a horse, I often felt like I was the only kid that didn’t own one, my teenage years were spent at the local horse trail riding business – where early morning I would catch and saddle up the horses assist where needed then wait patiently to be paid by way of a free one or two hour horse ride. the longing for a horse was fulfilled when I began working and bought my very first horse “Kelly” . 28 years I own a property with my partner where I have 3 horses, 3 goats a cockatoo and our 4 gorgeous dogs – mmm I should mention the 5 kids too.

As a child my response to ‘what you want to be when you grow up ‘ was Vet and a Nurse, but somehow I carved my career in Banking and Finance. I had a successful 25 year career with two major banks before I decided to open my own Virtual Finance Admin Consultancy exclusively to finance brokers, but something was missing – I missed people, I missed daily chats and getting to know and help clients, I missed that face to face interaction , my computer wasn’t cutting it being a Libran I needed to find that balance.

So how lucky am I now I’m able to combine my love of animals and customer care at the practice ‘ YES’ I’m finally living the dream.

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