Exclusively exotics - Nicole has been a companion exotics veterinarian since 2014
Nicole grew up having anything and everything apart from dogs and cats as pets. She has accumulated exotics experience throughout the world, from China to South Africa. She is currently based in Victoria, Australia.
She was previously in Perth, Western Australia with the Unusual Pet Vets, teaching final year veterinary students from 2014-2019 and heading the exotics department at the Murdoch University veterinary school from 2016 to 2019. Nicole has also given several industry and client lectures and workshops throughout the years, most recently at the Australian Veterinary Association national conference in 2019.
Nicole started working with Pet Circle in 2020, Australia’s largest online pet store, bringing her unique knowledge of exotic pets to the thousands of Pet Circle customers around the nation. 2020 was a busy year for her, and she also became a co-founder for a pet tech company, Upilio.
Nicole passed her Australia and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists Membership exam in Unusual Pets in 2021.
Skills
Training
Pre-existing courses
Companion exotics for general practitioners
1-2 night course designed to fit into a full service clinic schedule that covers all the basics for frequently seen species
Full lecture notes provided
Level of detail or specific species customizable to your practice
Up to date information that is not in the textbooks
Rabbit and guinea pig dental wet lab
3-4 hour session designed to cover the basics of rabbit and guinea pig dentistry
Specialized equipment and specimens provided
Focus on cheek tooth re-shaping and dental extractions
Discussion on theory and medicine relating to dental disease in small herbivores
Full workshop notes provided
Contact me to enquire about specially designed courses for your team, or for more information about specific courses.
Email nicolex.su@gmail.com
If you are the owner of a patient under my care, please direct your enquiry to the hospital, and I will respond via the hospital’s mode of communication to ensure all records are kept consistent and up to date.
Please note I am unable to give veterinary advice without a valid veterinarian-patient-client relationship.
Materials and publications
Curriculum Vitae
DENTAL DISEASE IN THE GERIATRIC RABBIT
As veterinary care and husbandry improves, we are seeing longer lifespans in our pet rabbits. Rabbits with chronic dental disease or geriatric dental changes require a specialized approach. This paper was presented at the vet stream of the Rabbit Expo 2019.
tracheal collapse
Tracheal collapse is a common and well-studied condition in dogs, but has only been recently described in rabbits. This paper was presented at the 2015 national combined Unusual Pets and Avian Veterinarians conference, and it outlines using computed tomography scanning for ante-mortem diagnosis of tracheal collapse in rabbits.
Guinea pig workshop materials - Monster pet vet
Inappetance in rabbits
Inappetance in rabbits is a common presentation with several potential causes. This paper, presented at the 2019 national Australian Veterinary Association conference, outlines the diagnostic pathway for determining if an inappetant rabbit patient is suffering from gastrointestinal hypomotility or outflow obstruction.
DIET AND BEHAVIOR IN THE GERIATRIC RABBIT
Older rabbits may require changes in their diet, and many owners notice some changes in behavior as well. This paper was presented at the owner stream of the Rabbit Expo 2019.