Meet the team

Claire continues to enjoy all aspects of veterinary medicine since qualifying from the Royal Veterinary College, London in 1998.

Claire is married to Neil, a local farmer and has three grown up sons. She has always enjoyed the company of her own pet dogs and cats at home and also has rescue chickens to supply eggs for her passion for baking.

Claire enjoys the outdoors keeping active running, cycling and at weekends is most likely to be found rowing on Ardingly reservoir.

Louise, our head nurse, has been nursing for 25 years and loves all aspects of her varied and interesting job.

Louise has 7 dogs and 7 cats and 1 daughter.

In her spare time Louise likes to play guitar, run and train in the gym and despite her petite size can life 130kg! Very handy when we need large dogs lifted.

Louise also runs our puppy training classes at the clinic and instructs in canine first aid.

I started my nursing journey 16 years ago with a Cobie When I was just 17, and have never looked back. In my spare time myself and my Fiancé Liam run a local boarding kennels which I work at part time.

My Hobbies include Dog agility. Iv been lucky enough to compete at the highest level and even represent team GB. As well as competed at Crufts and Olympia.

People might think we are crazy but we have 12 dogs and 10 cheeky chickens.

The things I enjoy most about nursing is inpatient care and Surgery especially X-rays. I have a keen interest and knowledge on dog breeding and whelping and find all aspect of this fascinating.

Here’s Giacomo with his much loved dog, Hero. Giacomo has graduated from the University of Turin, but despite his Italian origins has worked almost everywhere but in Italy. With a fresh degree in his pocket he ventured to India, where he received his “veterinary weaning” participating in Animal Birth Control and Vaccination programs for the stray animal population. Since then, he hasn’t really stopped travelling: Middle East, Galapagos, Myanmar, Thailand are just some of the places where his work and volunteer activity have brought him.

He is married to his lovely wife Fon, a Thai yoga practitioner (and former vet nurse!) and they both hope to have found in Eastbourne a safe port for their future together.

Mel has over nineteen years reception experience working in many different sector’s animal care has been her favourite
Mel has been working at Cobie Vetcare for the last three years

Mel loves meeting all our amazing clients especially having cuddles with the animals she said it’s the best part of the job.

Sadly Mel cannot have any animals at home as her daughter is allergic to cat and dog hair she hopes it will be something she grows out of

In her spare time Mel and her husband enjoy watching daughter Phoebe play football and son Jackson ride pony Piggy.

She also enjoys reading and travel.

Having lived in Eastbourne her whole life and working in customer facing roles since she was 16, Jodie has worked at Cobie Vetcare now for the last 3 years.

Jodie really enjoys meeting and greeting clients and their furry family members.

Married with 2 children, 2 stepchildren, a granddaughter, 2 dogs and a tortoise.

In her spare time she enjoys spending time with her family, travelling, and her favourite destination is Disneyland Paris.

I moved from Surrey to the South Coast 14 years ago with my husband and three grown up daughters.

Having previously qualified and worked as a Level 3 Teaching Assistant in primary education, I am now enjoying getting to know all of the clients and patients. Although I am a pug mummy, I can often be found making a fuss of all the patients, especially the pugs.

Ellie graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in 2019. She started her veterinary career in a small animal practice in West Sussex before coming to Cobie VetCare. She enjoys all aspects of general practice but has a particular interest in small animal medicine.

In her spare time Eleanor enjoys travelling with her fiancé Jake.