Peter Parke

Meet Dr. Peter Parke owner and operator of Tsolum Mobile Veterinary Health. Peter enjoys his veterinary career caring for the local Dairy and Beef herds in the Valley as well as all other farm animals. Also known as the “Horse GP” – Peter likes to service his equine clientele by providing good basic service such as teeth power floats, vaccinations, reproductive ultrasound, general health and complete nutritional analysis. Peter recently expanded his practice to now include caring for the small animals of the Valley. He recently opened up our small animal clinic by the Merville General Store. He encourages everyone to stop by to say Hi!

After graduating from high school, Peter earned a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture from the University of British Columbia in 1987. That same year, the Parke family sold their farm, leaving Peter without a place to work. For the next few years, he worked as a dairy farm labourer in the lower mainland.

In 1990, Peter moved to Ontario to complete a Masters in Animal Breeding at the University of Guelph. He graduated in 1995 and was accepted into the Ontario Veterinary College in Guelph, where he focused on dairy medicine and surgery. He graduated as a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in 2000. During his studies, Peter worked dairy rotations at Cornell and Kansas State Universities and attended several North American veterinary conferences.

A move to the Comox Valley was facilitated in the fall of 2003, when Dr. Pat O’Brien was looking to retire and sell his well-established large animal practice here. He contacted Peter about buying the clinic. Considering that he now had family living in the area, and that the veterinary practice had a solid reputation and client base, the decision to purchase the clinic was a relatively easy one. At the time, Tsolum Mobile Veterinary Health Ltd. operated out of a farm on Nelson Road.

Now, more than a dozen years after making the move, Dr. Parke is proud of the fact that the practice has expanded to include companion animals services and operates out of a clinic in Merville.

In his free time, Dr. Parke Peter playing or coaching sports, or hanging out on his farm with his dogs, ‘Smarty Jones’ and ‘Sheila’. He also has a small herd of beef cattle and enough chickens to keep him supplied with fresh eggs.

Read more about Dr. Parke’ssupport of the sports community in InFocus Magazine.

We work with:
Andrea Plaxton:Epona Equine
Colin Scruton:Equerry Surgery & Sports Medicine