Dr. Shannon Barrett is a veterinarian, writer, and pet health expert with more than 15 years of experience helping pets and the people who love them.

She has experience in general practice and emergency medicine. Dr. Barrett also spent more than a decade running her own house-call veterinary practice in Charleston, South Carolina. Instead of an exam room, her days were spent caring for dogs and cats in their own homes, while routinely sitting on living room floors, crawling under furniture, and invading her clients’ personal space in the name of veterinary medicine.

Today, Dr. Barrett works in veterinary telemedicine and telehealth, helping pet owners navigate everything from itchy skin and upset stomachs to the much more complicated question of, “Is this a pet emergency?”

She is also a veterinary medical writer and pet health expert whose work focuses on translating veterinary medicine into practical information pet owners can actually use. She has been quoted as a veterinary expert in numerous publications including Newsweek and Rover and was recently appointed to the Forbes Advisor Pet Health Advisory Board.

When she isn’t practicing veterinary medicine or writing about it, Dr. Barrett is usually somewhere new. She and her husband are full-time digital nomads who travel with their German Shepherd, Griffin.

Life on the road has also made her particularly interested in the realities of traveling with pets—from finding veterinary care away from home to keeping pets healthy when routines, climates, and locations are constantly changing.

Since she cannot snuggle her patients through her MacBook, she compensates by watching entirely too much wildlife, casually birding, and petting any dog that will let her.

Dr. Barrett created this website to bring together the two things she knows best: veterinary medicine and life on the go. Her goal is simple—to provide trustworthy pet health information without requiring a decoder ring to understand it.

Veterinary medicine is complicated. Understanding how to care for your pets shouldn’t be.