Dr. Brent H Dastrup, DVM
Family: Married 34 years, five children – all boys: 7 grandkids. Huckleberry, Doberman and Nepheli, poodle. Our family is smaller now – when the boys were young we collected 118 birds, monitored 5 fish tanks-fresh and salt, multiple dogs, chickens, ducks, a goose, rabbits, a snake, and a chinchilla.
Profession: Dr. of Veterinary Medicine—a graduate of Colorado State University, completed pre-med at University of Utah with a Bachelor of Science in Genetic.
Projects: actively engaged in church responsibilities
Hobbies: art is the first priority – drawing & painting with all media—on paper, canvas and board; photography, computers, gardening-roses & vegetables, collecting—art, stamps, books, and ‘quarters—to fill the pockets of my grandson Caston when he visits my desk.’
Dislikes: automobiles and too much sleep
Favorite foods: Seafood, Japanese, Chinese and Mexican, but a thick rare beef steak is very nice every now and then.
Favorite desserts: raspberry trifle & chocolate mousse.
Favorite TV shows: Seinfeld & X-Files
Favorite Movies: Ben Hur & Star Wars
Favorite composers: Bach & Mozart
Favorite music: Jazz
Favorite pastime: attending a constant flow of continuing medical education and art classes.
Favorite authors: James Joyce, Charles Dickens, and Orson Scott Card
Favorite parties: Family Reunions
Favorite pets: Dogs & Cats tie for first place, next come chickens but they don’t make good house pets.
Words to Live By: To Know, To Do, To Have, To Become, TO BE
View of Life: ‘The more things change, the more they stay the same’ (Old French Proverb)
Dr Dastrup is NET certified
Events and situations in our life can be linked to emotional responses that can trigger behavioral and/or physical conditions. 'Nearo Emotional Techniques' (NET) can help identify unresolved real (or imagined) events and help your body release its lingering charge. For good!
Using NET, we can find negatively charged emotional triggers and help your patient release recurring physical and/or behavioral responses. It's fast. It's fun. And it can dramatically improve your animals health.
Using NET, we can find negatively charged emotional triggers and help your patient release recurring physical and/or behavioral responses. It's fast. It's fun. And it can dramatically improve your animals health.
To learn more about NET visit www.netmindbody.com
Dr. Teresa A Benton, DVM
Married: Two Children
Hobbies: Gardening, restoring our 1911 house, keeping up with the kids. Irish Step Dance classes to keep up with my daughter.
Hometown: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Education: B. S. University of New Mexico, 1976. DVM Colorado State University, Ft. Collins CO.
Volunteer: Veterinary Disaster Team AreaG- 15 years. Teaching science kindergarten and first grades Holy Trinity school (on my day off) 11 years.
Work Experience: USDA Forest Service 1973-1976. Colorado State University Stallion Lab-Weekend feeder and stall cleaner. Coast Pet Clinic hermosa Beach 1981-1982. Del Amo Animal Hospital 1982-1999. Plaza Del Amo Animal Hospital 1999-Present.
Professional: So Cal Vet Med Assn-Council Chairperson 1988. So Cal Vet Med Assn-President 1993.
Favorite Movie:home movies of my kids of course- my son and husband are videophiles.
Favorite book: When Bad things Happen to Good People Harold Telushkin. Addicted to Lee Childs, Tom Clancy and JK Rowlings.
Future wish: when the kids are gone would like to have a horse again and get back to backpacking and travel.
Philosophy: I feel blessed that after 25 years in practice I love what I do every day. Sure I enjoy my time off, but I enjoy my profession, my job, the clients, and their animals. The field is changing and it keeps my mind active keeping up with new drugs and techniques.
Dr. Michele D Hoag, DVM
Family: Married to husband, Brian with two beautiful identical twin boys, Matthew and Nicholas, and one dog, “Petey”, a Dalmation mix who was thrown over our fence when she was a puppy.
Hometown: Torrance, California.
Education: Graduated from Torrance High School in 1993, El Camino College in 1997 with an A.S. in General Sciences, Cal Poly Pomona in 2000 with a B.S. in Animal Science and a minor in Physiology, and UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine in 2005.
Hobbies/Loves: Movies, cross-stitching & scrap-booking, horses, Australian Shepherds, biking, dirt bike riding.
Favorite Movies: Gone with the Wind & Gladiator
Favorite TV shows: LOST, Survivor, Amazing Race, Desperate Housewives, Project Runway, Heroes
Favorite Books: Harry Potter & Where the Red Fern Grows
Favorite Quote: “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans” – John Lennon
Dr. John L Guerra, DVM
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