15/06/2026
Meet the team Mondays 👏 Dr Adele
Dr Adele has been at our clinic since November last year. For those who have not had the pleasure of meeting her, here is an opportunity to get her know her!
Dr Adele always loved animals growing up. She was that kid who would bring injured birds and rescue stray kittens home to look after. This made her realise her path in life would involve caring for animals.
Dr Adele has a sweet and very cuddly bunny called Manuka whom she recently adopted. She also has a Siberian kitten called Pippin, who is super mischievous and playful. He loves to disturb Manuka while she is eating but she’s really good natured about it.
Whilst she loves all the various species that she sees at Sugarloaf, if she had to choose, she would say she has a soft spot for rabbits as they have such relatable and often comic personalities.
Before she became a vet, Dr Adele was an engineer. If she decided not to become a vet, she would be interested in designing custom 3D printed bionic limbs and assistance tools for animals using both her engineer skills & passion for helping animals in need.
An ideal Sunday for Dr Adele would be enjoying a sleep in and having a late breakfast before going to church. Afterwards she would have a picnic lunch somewhere fun like the beach or gardens with the family, followed by an activity like swimming, cycling, going for a walk, etc. before heading home and having dinner. Supper would be a nice movie with ice-cream and popcorn.
After a busy day at work, Dr Adele loves to wind down by curling up under a blanket reading a good book or watching a show with bag of chips. Of course, having her cat purring beside her and watching Manuka doing binkies with the kids in the hallway always makes her night complete.
Dr Adele would love to travel somewhere cold like maybe Antarctica. She would love to see the untamed beauty of the South Pole and all the amazing wildlife, especially the penguin migrations.
Some advice that Dr Adele would give to someone wanting to become a vet would be something that one of her lecturers said in her first year of university. This has stuck with her with all those years: It’s important to remember that people don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care. So inspiring!
