Meet Dr. Audrey Clifton
Dr. Audrey Clifton & Rudi
A Southern California Native, Dr. Audrey grew up in an era where orange trees, strawberry fields and sunshine prevailed in Orange County. Her grandparents settled here in the early 1950's, leaving Chicago for the rural life in California, bringing their love of ranch life and horses with them, and here her story began.
Dr. Audrey's childhood love for animals continued to grow and led her to choose a career in Veterinary Medicine. She graduated from UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine in 2006. She moved to Sacramento, CA and began her professional career as a racetrack veterinarian, working with the standardbred horses at Cal Expo.
After more than a decade of racetrack practice, her interests broadened to include integrative and alternative medicine, and in 2016 she began studying acupuncture. She quickly realized that acupuncture is a wonderful tool for managing pain, which allowed her to provide a whole new level of therapeutic care and services to her equine patients and her own horses too. She also saw how valuable this modality was to dogs and cats and thus began seeing more geriatric patients. Dogs, cats and horses responded very well to this integrative approach to veterinary medicine.
A new world opened itself to her; hospice and palliative care for pets! This special niche is an exceptional and personally rewarding opportunity to help people and their treasured pets through their geriatric years and end-of-life care.
This new avenue has become the focus and passion of her veterinary profession. She is now devoting most of her time and skills to this compassionate care, helping people provide the love and care their pets truly deserve in those final days.
Nothing has been more personally and professionally rewarding to Dr. Audrey than being part of this special bond between owners and their beloved pets and to assist and support them through the final stages in the circle of life.
