Dr. Michael Blotter grew up outside of Utah. His parents are both from the Cache Valley area, but he was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. At a young age he found his love for animals, as he breed his two golden retrievers, Logan and Flaxen. Dr. Blotter received his undergraduate degree in Animal Science from BYU in 1986, where he met and married his sweetheart Shauna. They then went off to Vet School at the Ohio State University, where he graduated as a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.) in 1990. After graduation, he did an internship in southern California working on animals of the “rich and famous”! His entry to private practice was in rural North Carolina, where he cared for large animals (primarily farm animals) for a year before moving his family to Utah in May of 1991. Dr. Blotter took over ownership of this hospital in 2000, and is the sole practitioner here. Now a father of five, he has passed on his love of animals to his children, as each of his boys have worked along side him at the hospital. His youngest daughter (9) loves to go to work with daddy, and can often be found at the front desk greeting the VIP’s {Very Important Pets}.