Dr Josh Rich BSc BVM&S MACVSc

Josh graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1990. He also has an intercalated honours degree in pathology. He grew up in a house full of dogs, cats and horses, his step mother bred Maine Coons and his grandparents bred poodles and bull terriers (though never together!)

Upon graduation Josh went into mixed practice in the wilds of Yorkshire and was granted a 4 month sabbatical which he spent in Mauritius working with an SPCA team neutering the local pets from a mobile surgical unit. He returned to practice in Yorkshire for a further 2 years but his interest in travel had been sparked and he left to work in Greece, Hong Kong, Australia and the Bahamas.

Josh worked in a small animal practice in the Bahamas for 2 years. One of the highlights of this time was being involved in the veterinary care for the dolphins at The Dolphin Experience Freeport, Grand Bahama.

However Australia called and in 1998 Josh made his third and final visit, moving to the Mornington Peninsula, originally to cover a one year sabbatical leave for one of the partners at Peninsula Vet Hospital in Mt Eliza. Josh then spent 4 years at Frankston Heights Vet Centre and in 2000 he gained membership to the ACVS (Australian College of Veterinary Scientists) by examination in Veterinary Radiology.

In 2004 Josh and Camilla purchased Mt Martha Veterinary Clinic, realising a long held ambition to own and run their own practice.

Outside the clinic Josh loves to spend time with his four girls, has recently rediscovered the gym, and is a self confessed current affairs junkie.

Dr Camilla Babington BVSc (Hons) MACVSc

Camilla graduated with honours in Veterinary Science from Melbourne University in 1987. She started work in a busy mixed practice in Bacchus Marsh for 2 years before leaving for the UK on a working holiday.

The working holiday that was planned for a year lasted seven!  Camilla worked for two years in a very busy small animal clinic in East London (being on the Heathrow tube line was handy...)  Then she gradually moved north doing a string of locums to vary her experience.  Eventually she settled for three years in Newcastle upon Tyne where she ran a branch practice that was part of a four clinic mixed practice.  Her fondest memory of this time was driving over the moors in the snow in the depths of winter to deliver a triplet of lambs - my James Herriot era.

 Eventually it was time to come home and Camilla shipped herself and her dog home.

Moose has long ago passed on, but was a RSPCA rescue dog who was epileptic, had a ‘false' hip and needed four separate gut surgeries - she chose the right owner!

Camilla then worked at the Animal Emergency Centre in Mt Waverley and gained her Membership of the ACVS by examination in Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care in 1999.  She stayed at the AEC until 2005 and maintained her love of emergency medicine with part time work at the Hallam AEC, until the arrival of Camilla and Josh's third child at the end of 2006.

Camilla thoroughly enjoys the relationships that are forged in a small practice with pets and their owners.  After years of emergency work she loves to see healthy animals and keep them that way, and has a soft spot for the geriatric patient. She is still interested in intensive care and many a patient has spent the night in the lounge room on a drip with a fluid pump.

Camilla and Josh have three young daughters and live in Mt Eliza with a dog, three chickens, two pet rats and the retired clinic cat,  Mr Thomas.