Dr. Spencer Anderson is a Montana native and a graduate of Colorado State University College of Veterinary Medicine. After earning his degree, he served three years in the U.S. Army caring for military working dogs, including a deployment to Iraq. He returned to Bozeman in 2007 and opened Baxter Creek Veterinary Clinic in November 2010. …

Dr. Palmer Poutre grew up in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and made the move to Bozeman in 2004. She first joined Baxter Creek as a technician in 2010 while working on her undergraduate degree, earning a B.S. in Equine Science from Montana State University in 2011. She went on to attend St. George’s University for veterinary …

Dr. Jessica Bienapfl earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Biology from Montana State University in 2002 and her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the University of Minnesota in 2008. Her clinical interests include internal medicine, soft tissue surgery, and — most especially — acupuncture, for which she received her Veterinary Acupuncture Certification from the International Veterinary …

Before veterinary school, Dr. Miles Arakaki worked in the military and the construction industry. He graduated from Colorado State University in 2004 and went on to serve as an Army veterinarian in Texas and North Carolina, with two deployments to Afghanistan. He later worked as a civilian veterinarian at an Army working dog kennel in …

Dr. John Ellington was born in Georgia and grew up in the Carolinas. He moved to Bozeman in December 2023, following the lead of his best friends and veterinary school classmates who had made the same move years earlier. He received his B.S. in Biological Sciences from Clemson University in 2015 and earned his doctorate …