About Us
About Chicago Exotics Animal Hospital
Chicago Exotics has been in business since
2000. We've been quickly establishing ourselves as the region's
premier exotic animal hospital. Our mission is to be the best
care facility in the Chicago land area for avian and exotic
animals.
We do offer 24 hour critical care services in
association with our emergency partners, Blue Pearl Skokie, located in
the same building.
Take a tour of the
facility.
Meet our Staff
Susan Horton, DVM, pictured with Misty the Black
Palm Cockatoo
Dr. Susan Horton is a University of Illinois
graduate (class of 1995). Her interest in birds and exotic animals followed her
into veterinary school where she worked for four years with the
Director of Exotic Animal Medicine at the veterinary college, Dr.
Kenneth Welle ABVP avian. With Dr. Welle, Dr. Horton gained valuable
experience and knowledge in the care of reptiles, birds, sugar
gliders, hedgehogs and other small mammals, as well as ostriches,
emus, and fish. Also while at the University of Illinois, Dr.
Horton took an elective course in reptile and aquatic medicine
through Texas A&M University (Aquamed) and the aquatic
rotation and University of Florida CVM, Gainesville. She
attends several of the yearly veterinary conferences on avian,
reptilian, and exotic animal medicine. Through these venues
she has continued her education in medicine, surgery, cytology,
radiology, and all other aspects of avian, reptilian, and exotic
animal medicine.
Dr. Horton has not confined her knowledge and expertise to the
walls of a veterinary hospital. Both Brookfield Zoo and the Shedd
Aquarium have used her services. She has also worked with
the Illinois Dept. of Natural Resources in censusing the zoonotic
diseases (contractible by people) of the local and statewide
population of raccoons. She has lectured to the Northern Illinois
Parrot Society, the University of Illinois, and has been published
in the Journal of Avian Medicine and Surgery, Journal of
Herpetologic Medicine and Surgery, and "Invertebrate
Biology". She is a member of the Association of
Reptile and Amphibian Veterinarians where she is chair for the
"What's your diagnosis?" section of the journal and co-chair for the Membership/Public
Relations/Social Media Committee, and she is also a member of the Association of
Avian Veterinarians, the Association of Exotic Mammal
Veterinarians, AAZV, and AVMA. She has been an associate
editor for the Journal of Reptilian and Amphibian Medicine and the
Exotic DVM Magazine. The Red Door Animal Shelter, (http://www.reddoorshelter.org) uses her
rabbit expertise with their many wonderful bunnies. She is
also a member of the Turtle Survival Alliance. Through this
organization, she helps endangered Asian turtles by volunteering
time, medicine, and her home to foster turtles. Recently,
Dr. Horton took an endoscopy
class at University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine. Pictured
below with Dr. Horton is Boris the iguana.
Dr. Horton has her own assortment of exotic (and
not so exotic) pets including: geckos, cockatiels,
frogs, fish, cats, and one dog. In her "spare" time, Dr.
Horton likes gardening, scuba diving, bird watching, camping,
canning, brewing, bee keeping, and
beading (and working on this website).
Dr. Horton appeared in a Chicago Magazine article
profiling Chicago's top veterinarians.
Stephanie Moy, DVM
Dr. Stephanie Moy graduated from the University
of Illinois
in 2010. While attending school, she volunteered in the
wildlife clinic. During her third year, she became a team
leader. She was active in several student organizations.
During her senior year she did two externships; one at John G. Shedd
Aquarium and one at the Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife at
Sanibel Island, Florida. After
graduating from veterinary school, she still continues to
volunteer at the John G. Shedd Aquarium. Prior to joining
Chicago Exotics, she worked at another animal clinic where she
treated dogs, cats, and exotic animals.
Dr. Moy’s love of exotics stems from her 25 year old cockatiel. In her spare time, Dr. Moy
likes to read, listen to music, cook/bake, and trying to be crafty.
Pictured above is Katy Parr,
DVM.
Dr. Parr graduated from Louisiana State
University School of Veterinary Medicine in 2004. While
there, she focused in exotic animal medicine, and was
involved in several of the school clubs. Dr. Parr was
President of the Wildlife, Avian, Zoo and Exotic Medicine club,
and Co-chair of the Raptor and Wildlife Rehabilitation Unit for 2
years. Dr. Parr also completed several externships
during vet school, including the Lincoln Park Zoo, the Wildlife
Center of Virginia, and Niles Animal Hospital.
During these externships, Dr. Parr realized that her true passion
for practice was with clients and their exotic animal
companions. She enjoys supporting the bond that people
have with their pets.
When not at work Dr. Parr enjoys home brewing,
bike-riding, reading and yoga. She lives with an African
Grey Parrot named Monty and a cat named Juliet.
Deanne Strat-Zenoni,
DVM is one of
our part-time veterinarians. She loves exotic medicine, but
also practices emergency, acupuncture and chiropractic medicine. She
is pictured below holding a Lemur from the Torango Zoo.
 
Dana Varble, DVM
joined our staff in 2011. She pictured above.
She received her DVM from University of Illinois and
her Zoology B.S. from Southern Illinois University. Her
special interests are venomous bites and stings, exotic pets,
wildlife, and zoo animals, working canines, soft tissue and
non-invasive surgery techniques. Dr Varble is currently the
President of the Association of Reptile and Amphibian Medicine.
In her spare time she volunteers for Search and
rescue operations and trains her bloodhound, Calhoun, as a trailing
search dog. She also has a walker coonhound - Penny, a Rottweiler
mix - Dottie, two cats - Thomas and Abe, and two ball pythons - Jake
and Phil.
“I like to put myself in my patient’s and
client’s position and use the knowledge I have to strike a balance
that best serves both of them.” DV
Kelly, pictured below, comes with lots of
avian experience. She also loves rabbits and guinea pigs.
Pictured Below is our full time technician Erica,
CVT. She is interested in exotics and wildlife! She
writes many or our caresheets! In this picture she is handling
a Koi and an alligator.
 
Pictured above is
Rachel with a Lion head rabbit. Rachel has joined our full
time team of technicians. She is very interested in
animal behavior!
Pictured below is Marcia. She works as a receptionist and an assistant.
You can see she likes chickens, but her favorite animals are
rabbits!! She is also involved with Red
Door Animal Shelter. She is a journalist when not
helping us!
Pictured above is Jessica.
She has joined our technician/Reception staff this year. She
loves all things small and furry but especially bunnies!!!!
 
Pictured here is Lisa,
one of our technicians. She has a great love for all of the
critters we see!
Pictured below is Elizabeth.
She has quite the menagerie at home. She can help you with
all of your exotic animal care questions!
Here is our front Desk Manager
Lamor. She is pictured below with
some of her favorite pets.
 
I finally caught Tina
on film! She's pictured below with Lemiwinks, our mouse
mascot. Tina is one of
our daytime receptionists.
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