Holly Cheever, DVM, graduated from Harvard University in 1971 and Cornell’s Veterinary College in 1980; she has been in private practice ever since with time off for maternal behavior, joining The Animal Hospital in 1990. In addition to caring for your critters, she assists local law officials in animal cruelty case investigations, lobbies for improved animal protection laws as a board member of the New York State Humane Association, and lectures to all ages on environmental and animal welfare subjects. Her family consists of a husband, four children, and an endearing and eccentric collection of dogs/cats/guinea pigs/horses/cows/goats/chickens, many of them rescued from abuse cases. She invites local children’s groups to her farm for field trips, assists in coaching her daughters’ ice hockey teams, and writes a regular column for Good Housekeeping as "the GH Vet".