Cats On Call Hospital

Deb

Veterinary Assistant

Deborah moved to Maine in 2021 to start her career working at feline-only practices. Before this, she earned a bachelor’s degree in holistic psychology from Lesley University. During her undergraduate studies, she quickly realized that her calling in life was fostering the human-animal connection, especially with our feline friends. Deborah is a certified Reiki practitioner focusing on animal energy work. She hopes to one day own her own cat shelter that integrates holistic medicine.

Kyle Brackman

Customer Service Representative

Bio coming soon

Cece

Veterinary Assistant

Cat-crazy and passionate about feline health care! She has been helping cats stay healthy since 2018. Cece worked in a cat-only hospital in Massachusetts for two years and then left to pursue her dreams of working in the White Mountains as a naturalist and educator. She found her way to Cats on Call in January 2023 and has been Pawsitively purrfecting her skills in vet care, social media promotion, and cat photography every day since. Cece is the brilliance behind our Facebook. Cece fosters cats and often has a rotating roster at her home (ask for pictures of her current feline residents!). She loves hiking, baking, cows, softball, and bananas.

Lex

Veterinary Assistant

Bringing order to chaos! Lex has been in the veterinary field for 12 years and loves every second of it. She has worked as a practice manager in a mixed animal hospital, a technician in emergency and urgent care settings, and up until recently, has been doing relief work at multiple hospitals, helping teams that are otherwise short-staffed care for their patients. Lex has been at Cats On Call for over six months filling in where she can, and we welcome her on as our full-time lead technician in July. Lex is all about stress-free vet visits and advocating for feline wellness. A native Rhode Islander, she found her home in Maine in 2009. She loves nature and everything encompassing it, as well as dabbling a bit in the art of bodybuilding. Lex has two wonderful pets, a dog and a cat, and either animal can be found hiking with her.

 Odilia

Customer Service Representative

Client turned customer care representative! Odilia has been at Cats on Call since 2005! Odilia joined the COC team in September as a part-time receptionist, diving headfirst into a job she had no prior experience, and she has been an invaluable asset since. Odilia is the cheery voice you will hear on the phone on Mondays and Wednesdays. She is always ready to help pet-pawrents with any concern. She was born in Portugal and raised in Brazil. She has two grown children and 2fur children (One is a tripod!)

Morgan

Head Licensed Veterinary Technician

Plant lover, rock collector, and feline enthusiast! Morgan became licensed as a veterinary technician in 2017 and has worked in both mixed practice and emergency. Morgan joined the Cats on Call team full-time in February 2023 when she realized her passion was for feline-only medicine, but she may be a familiar face for many clients as she has been around much longer, picking up relief shifts whenever she could. Morgan spends her free time growing her houseplant collection one leaf at a time, hiking with her orange cat Skullcrusher, mountain climbing, collecting rocks, or trying to herd her many, many chickens. Morgan has two orange cats, a snake, a bearded dragon, and a rabbit.

Jess

Veterinary Assistant

Animal lover, performing arts enthusiast, and concert fanatic Jess has been at Cats on Call for over ten years. Her primary duties include ensuring our pets thrive and helping out around the clinic on Friday mornings. Beyond Cats on Call Jess works full-time at a mixed animal general practice and especially loves scrubbing in to assist with surgical procedures. When Jess isn’t working, you can catch her lounging at home with her pup or rocking out at a concert or two!

Dr. Abigail Hooker

Practice Owner and Medical Director

Dr. Hooker grew up in Southeast Michigan in a family of cat lovers. She graduated from The Ohio State University in 2017 with a B.S. in Animal Sciences. She attended Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine in Ithaca, NY, and graduated with her DVM in 2021. She has always had a passion for cats. During veterinary school, she worked with the Cornell University Feline Health Center to organize community events and provide free veterinary care to cats in assisted living communities. After veterinary school, Dr. Hooker moved to Philadelphia, PA, to practice at an AAHA-accredited, Gold-level feline practice where she received mentorship from experienced feline veterinarians. She refined her skills in feline surgery and feline dentistry, managed patients with multiple chronic diseases, and worked with an incredibly compassionate, collaborative, supportive, and intelligent team.

Dr. Hooker met with Dr. Hoyt in 2022, as Dr. Hoyt was seeking a feline veterinarian interested in transitioning into practice ownership at Cats on Call. Dr. Hooker had dreamt for many years about moving to Maine, and she decided to jump into this new adventure and purchased Cats on Call from Dr. Hoyt in January 2023 as Dr. Hoyt transitioned into retirement. It was a difficult decision to move on from such a wonderful practice in Philadelphia, but Dr. Hooker is committed to providing personalized, compassionate care for our community of cat lovers in Scarborough.

Dr. Hooker’s professional interests include dentistry, behavior, and pain management. Dr. Hooker currently resides in Cape Elizabeth with her partner, Kyle, and three cats, Jackson, Marbles, and Spooky. In her spare time, she enjoys listening to Taylor Swift, reading (Stephen King is her favorite author), and exploring the forests and beaches of southern Maine.

Dr. Kristine L. Hoyt

Associate Veterinarian

Dr. Hoyt grew up in Cumberland, Maine. After graduating from Bowdoin College, she conducted cancer research at the Medical School of Bern, Switzerland. She did Masters work in clinical nutrition at the University of Illinois before receiving her Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine from the University of Wisconsin in 1990.

She initially trained to work with zoo animals at both the San Diego Zoo and Marine World before completing an internship in small animal surgery and medicine. She has been specializing in cats since 1991.

In the summer of 2010, she traveled to Botswana, where she worked in the bush, tracking leopards for the purpose of placing radio collars. She lives at Higgins Beach with her husband, daughter, three cats, and one dog who thinks she is a cat.

Maud

Practice Manager

Helping cats live their nine lives! Maud has been at Cats on Call for over a year and was promoted to practice manager in January 2023. Originally from Florida, Maud has lived everywhere, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, and landed in Maine in 2021. She started her veterinary career in Virginia Beach and discovered her love for helping treat animals there. When she moved to Maine, she quickly found a love for all things veterinary emergency and critical care, but after the hustle and bustle of overnights, she settled down and found her home at Cats on Call. Maud is passionate about promoting staff wellness and ensuring every feline visiting has a fear-free visit. While many of her duties keep her behind the scenes, Maud is often seen jumping into action to help answer a phone or assist in an appointment. In her free time, Maud can be found traveling the world, collecting rare houseplants, or at home with her 11 animals (six cats and five dogs), at the beach in the summer months, or reading a good fiction novel.