10/13/2026
🎉🎊 ONE YEAR OF SOUTHERN OAKS 🎊🎉
It’s hard to believe we’re already writing these words… Southern Oaks is ONE!
When we dreamed of Southern Oaks, we wanted to create a veterinary clinic that felt a little different. We dreamed of a place where exceptional medicine and genuine Southern hospitality could meet. A place where you never felt like “just another appointment,” where you knew your concerns would be heard, and where every pet who came through our doors would be loved and cared for like one of our own.
One year later, we look around and realize that you made that vision so real.
We opened our doors with a dream, a whole lot of faith, some nerves, and hearts ready to serve this community. What we could have never imagined was just how quickly the Wiregrass would wrap its arms around us.
Somewhere along the way, Southern Oaks stopped feeling like a brand-new veterinary clinic and simply started feeling like HOME. Your home and ours.
Over this first year, we’ve gotten to know so many of you beyond the names on an appointment schedule. We know your pets’ personalities, their favorite treats, their funny little quirks, and which ones need a few extra snuggles before an exam. We’ve watched puppies and kittens grow, celebrated good news and answered prayers, laughed with you, worried alongside you, and shared tears during some of the hardest goodbyes.
Those are the moments that have made Southern Oaks what it is.
To every person who has walked through our doors and said, “I trust you ” … THANK YOU! There may be no greater compliment or responsibility you could give us.
Thank you to the families who took a chance on the “new clinic in town.” Thank you to those who told a friend about us, shared our posts, left us a kind word, brought our team a treat, stopped by just to say hello, or cheered us on from the very beginning. And thank you to every new face who has since walked through our doors and become part of this family.
We hope you know that we notice it, we appreciate it, and we never take it for granted.
And then there’s our Southern Oaks team!!
There simply aren’t enough words for the people who have poured their hearts into this place alongside us. They have celebrated the wins, stayed through the hard days, loved on countless animals, comforted worried owners, laughed until we cried, cried because we cared, and helped turn a dream into something we are incredibly proud to call ours.
Southern Oaks would not be Southern Oaks without them.
So today, on our first birthday, we aren’t just celebrating a year in business.
We’re celebrating a year of relationships.
A year of trust.
A year of serving this community.
A year of doing what we love alongside people we love.
And a year of being reminded over and over again just how fortunate we are to call the Wiregrass home.
From the bottom of our hearts, THANK YOU, Wiregrass.
And since this celebration belongs to ALL OF US, we want you to celebrate with us!!! Drop a picture of your Southern Oaks baby in the comments, share a favorite memory from this first year, or simply say hello. We would absolutely love to fill this post with the sweet faces and families who made year ONE so special.
One year down, and Lord willing, many, many more to come!! We’re just getting started, and we couldn’t be more grateful that you’re part of our story.
With all our love and gratitude,
Dr Abby Long and Dr Kirk Holland!!
