Drew Bracken | Special to the Chillicothe Gazette
CHILLICOTHE – Sometimes talents spell beyond 1 career.
“As a kid I was ever drawn to animals dissimilar anyone other successful my family,” recalled Kathy Bates. “We had nary household pets astatine all, but weirdly, I was ever drawn to and fascinated by animals ever since I was a tiny child. I was a equine brainsick teen and rode horses astatine a section riding stable, but dogs and cats became a immense portion of my life.”
Today, Bates is Dr. Bates, a veterinarian astatine North Fork Animal Clinic.
“It’s an honor, a privilege and a tremendous responsibility,” she said, “to accurately diagnose and correctly treat, to beryllium disposable and dependable, and supra each to bash nary harm to my patients oregon my clients. The signifier of medicine, beryllium it carnal oregon human, is not to beryllium taken lightly oregon flippantly successful my sentiment arsenic the precise prime of beingness depends upon you and deserves reverence and respect.”
That said, Bates has different talent.
“Around 2005 I started tinkering with coating connected a full whim,” she said. “It rapidly became a delightful obsession that’s claimed overmuch of my spare clip and energy.”
“I started chiefly coating landscapes,” she added. “I’m particularly drawn to clouds and skies and wide unfastened spaces. But I besides started sketching and coating my canine and it yet expanded to friends’ dogs, coworkers’ pets astatine the clinic, and past done connection of mouth, different peoples’ pets arsenic well.”
Bates grew up connected the eastbound broadside of Columbus, graduated from Eastmoor High School, past William Woods College successful Fulton, Missouri, reasoning she wanted to beryllium a portion of their equestrian program.
“That didn’t enactment retired for me,” she said, “but I liked each my biology and chemistry classes. So I majored successful biology and minored successful chemistry, and came to recognize that each the different bio majors were pre-med and pre-dent students. I thought, ‘Hey! I’ve ever loved animals. I could beryllium a vet!’ And that’s precisely what happened.”
Bates graduated from OSU College of Veterinary Medicine successful 1986, worked successful tiny carnal practices successful Detroit, Nashville and Kingsport Tennessee, past joined the North Fork Animal Clinic successful Chillicothe successful 1999.
“I've known Kathy for galore years, and she has decidedly enhanced my life,” said long-time person Marilyn Moncrieff. “She’s a levelheaded, smart, funny, responsible, classy and wide bully person. Her veterinary skills are apical notch. And she’s a talented creator whose paintings are successful homes each implicit the country. I person galore successful my home. It’s been a pleasance to ticker her method amended implicit the years.”
“A just fig of radical person commissioned me to bash portraits of their pets,” Bates responded. “Many of them person been patients of excavation that I’ve known and possibly treated for galore years. The favored portraits are genuinely special. It’s ever a challenge, but wholly rewarding!”
“And veterinary medicine has decidedly been a lifelong calling for me,” she concluded. “The personalities of dogs and cats, and the bonds we signifier with them, and the mode they enrich our lives, has genuinely been a immense portion of my life.”
North Fork Animal Clinic is located astatine 2260 Anderson Station Road successful Chillicothe. For much information, log connected www.northforkanimalclinic.com. And for artwork, log connected www.kathybatesfineart.com.
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