Dr. Dana Decker began her journey to owning her own practice in Calgary by working, and locuming in many different aspects of the veterinary field, in the northern and southern hemispheres. Not only had her schooling, to gain her Doctorate Veterinary Medicine degree bring her to Perth, Australia to learn, it brought about her love of small and large animals.
Her career started on horse farms in Indiana, and in equine reproduction. She then became apart of a great team at a cardiology clinic in Florida, she locumed at emergency hospitals here in Alberta and in primary care, in Florida, Colorado and Calgary.
Over the years working in these many different atmospheres she has come to learn that every animal matters and that veterinary care can be trying and difficult on the pet and owner alike. It was then that she decided, one day she would open her own clinic to help as many
small animals and people as she could. Dana started this journey by opening a house call service based in Okotoks in 2019. She started her clientele from scratch by word of mouth. One visit from Dr. Dana and you, along with your pet would fall in love. After 1 year she made the big decision that it was time to have her own full service animal clinic.
That was when Creature Comforts Animal Clinic began.
The clinic was completely designed by Dana with her current and future patients in mind. With A fear free and open door approach it gives her the ability to make every pet feel safe and comfortable. At her facility she has put forth her love of animals and the ability to treat them in many aspects of veterinary care. This include appointments, typical, fear free, surgery, radiology and even ultrasonography. She also provides the most important and difficult service of all, the end of life service. We wish our furry friends could be with us forever in body, but they will always be with us in spirit.
With all that in mind she created a surgery suite, a lead lined radiology suite, 3 treatment tables where dental procedures and surgical preparation can be preformed, a full pharmacy, 3 examination rooms for every size feline and canine friend, along with a “At Home Living room space” at the back of the clinic, to accommodate every pet and client. From the warm colour of the cabinetry to the soft couch like seats in the examination rooms, she hoped everyone would feel like “home” when they arrived at Creature Comforts Animal Clinic. Dana has put her heart and soul into building this practice. Her clients mean the world to her. This all could not be possible without the amazing people and their pets that she met and helped along the way.