WRSOS
Vice President
Dr. Dennilyn Parker |
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| I was born in
London, Ontario. As my mom was a nurse who also loved animals, we ended
up with all the local injured wildlife. This included a skunk, a
raccoon, a squirrel and Nelson the one-eyed crow. We would take the
baby wild birds on vacation with us wherever we went.
I decided early on (around age 5) that I wanted to be a vet. I eventually made it and graduated vet school in 1998. I worked with exotics and dogs and cats for two years in Toronto. I planned to do a residency but had no concrete leads. I got very lucky when I met Colette Wheler at a conference in New Orleans. Before I knew it, I was experiencing my first Saskatchewan winter! I have fallen in love with Saskatoon. I became an Assistant Professor in Zoo, Exotic and Wildlife Medicine in 2003 at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM). When Colette left the WCVM in 2002, I inherited Jan Shadick as the local wildlife rehabilitator. One of the perks of my job is being able to work with wildlife. The WCVM offers a full range of medical care |
for wildlife, but we don't always have the resources to provide the extended care necessary to successfully return the animals to the wild. We are therefore, very glad to have the expertise of local, trained rehabilitators to whom we can refer animals which have been medically cleared. As a Team, we can Keep Saskatchewan Wildlife Wild!! Dennilyn Parker, B.Sc, DVM, MVetSc, Dipl ABVP (Avian) |