Hi! I am Dolores Newman, one of the new owners at Confederate Ridge Animal Hospital.  I was born in Philadelphia and grew up in New Jersey.  I have lived in Virginia for 28 years.  I am a Virginia Tech alumni of both undergraduate and vet school. 

I was born and raised in rural Northwest Pennsylvania. After attending undergraduate school in Ohio, I graduated from Purdue University of Veterinary Medicine in 1991. For the next 14 years I worked at a mixed animal practice not far from where I grew up. While I enjoyed working on the numerous dairy cattle in the region and had many great small animal clients and patients, the long winters and too many nights of on-call emergencies became a burden.