About Us
The Best Care Team for Your Best Friends
Best Friends Cat Clinic’s mission is to provide
specialized, low stress, compassionate and exceptional care for cats, as well as
clear and detailed information for their owners. We strive to exceed client
expectations and provide excellent customer service while maintaining a friendly and relaxed office environment which invokes trust, comfort and loyalty from our clients.
Meet The Team
Dr. Cherie Anderson, DVM
Veterinarian
Dr. Anderson’s love for cats goes way back. “I have never not had a cat. Since the day I was born and grew up with my family cat, to the present day living with 4 cats.” “I have always felt an affinity for felines and I believe that my lifetime of living with cats has given me a better understanding and appreciation for them.” Dr. Anderson has done continuing education
specifically for feline medicine over the past 18 years, as this has truly been her area of primary interest. Dr. Anderson loves the complexity of cats and specializes in internal medicine and ultrasound. She loves managing diabetic cats as well as geriatric cats with multiple ongoing disease processes. She enjoys meeting clients and educating them on their cat’s
particular health status so that they can work as a team to obtain the best quality of life for that pet.
Dr. Anderson graduated with honors from the College of Veterinary Medicine at Michigan State University in 2007. During her clinical rotations in school, Dr. Anderson won both the outstanding student in cardiology award as well as the outstanding student in feline studies award. For one of her traveling rotations, Dr. Anderson went to San Antonio, TX to study for 3 weeks with renowned board certified feline specialist, Gary Norsworthy DVM, DABVP (Feline).
Dr. Anderson has been working in veterinary medicine for 28 years. She started as a receptionist at a large, small animal clinic in Grand Rapids. After a year, she trained to be an exam room assistant and then over time became the personal exam room assistant for the owner of the practice. After 6 years, Dr. Anderson knew she wanted to return to college and pursue her dream of becoming a veterinarian. She continued to work at this practice while attending school. This same practice offered her a job as a veterinarian when she graduated. She practiced at this clinic for many years. However, she wanted to buy property and have a small farm with her horses and in pursuit of that dream, moved to Hickory Corners, MI. She
worked for a year at a corporate owned practice in Allegan and quickly realized corporate medicine was not a good fit for her. She then worked for 4 years at a small cat clinic in Richland, MI until leaving to start Best Friends' Cat Clinic.
Dr. Anderson shares her farm home with her best friend, Dawn, and 13 pets. They have a senior pit bull, 4 adorable and hilarious French Bulldogs, a shih tzu who thinks he is a prince and a beautiful Australian shepherd. They also live with 4 cats. Leo is almost 19 years old and Dr. Anderson adopted him when she graduated from vet school in 2007. He is the perfect
example of the complicated geriatric cat managing chronic kidney failure, hyperthyroidism, hypertension, arthritis and GI lymphoma for the past several years. Fiyero is a flame point siamese and Fitzy is a Tonkinese and they are 12 years old. Cashie was the last cat to join the home and he is a
big black and white tuxedo cat who manages the barn. Dr. Anderson has always loved horses and her pride and joy is her beloved Arabian/Paint gelding, Tango. They used to show dressage and on the Arabian circuit. He shares his pasture with a stubborn quarter horse mare named Jazzy. Dr. Anderson loves being with her horses, gardening and working outside in
her time away from the office.
Dawn Brooks
TBC
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