Mark graduated from the University of Guelph in 1996 with a DVM and an undergraduate degree in Zoology. He then moved to East Aurora , NY to work in a busy referral clinic in East Aurora. After two years in the USA he returned to practice in a small animal clinic near Hamilton , Ontario . The last sixteen years he has spent working at a Feline only Practice in Ancaster, Ontario with two board certified Feline specialists. Mark recently moved to Fosterville , NB to retire, but after meeting Dr. Krista Foreman and her staff decided to come back to practice part-time. Mark and his partner Colin have two Aussies named Jack and Luvi , and a recent feline adoption named Hitch . They also share their homestead with 30 bantam chickens . Mark spends his free time gardening , and raising, exhibiting and judging Exhibition poultry and waterfowl.