Shannon “Boo” Donoho, DVM
Dr. Boo is the owner and veterinarian at Southern Animal Hospital. She grew up in the Raleigh area on her family's small farm. Her family always had a menagerie of animals around, ranging from dogs and cats to horses and guinea hens. She grew up fox hunting, participating in 4-H and Pony Club, working in her family's grooming shop, as well as showing her horses and dogs.
After attending UNC-Chapel Hill for a degree in Biology, Boo graduated from NCSU College of Veterinary Medicine in 2008. After graduation, she moved to Northern Virginia to work at an equine and small animal veterinary clinics,. She decided to move back south to be closer to her family, as well the warmer weather! She purchased property in Mebane in March of 2016 and with the incredible help of her family and friends built Southern Animal Hospital.
Training her Belgian Tervurens and Rhodesian Ridgebacks, in a variety of performance events including conformation, agility, obedience, rally, herding, scent work, and lure coursing keeps her busy. In her spare time, she also enjoys hiking and rehabbing houses with her family. She is a member of the American Veterinary Medical Association, Veterinary Information Network, American and Blue Ridge Belgian Tervuren Clubs, Rhodesian Ridgeback Club of the United States, and Durham Kennel Club.
Terra Wells, DVM
Dr. Terra Wells joined Southern Animal Hospital as a full time veterinarian in 2021! She graduated from NCSU College of Veterinary Medicine in 2007. She has worked as a small animal veterinarian in Alamance County for almost 15 years. She lives with her husband Aaron and three kids Cassidy, Teagan, and Deacon, as well as a zoo of animal including dogs, cats, a pig, turkey, chickens, snake, and ferret. This menagerie keeps her busy! Dr. Wells enjoys dental medicine and surgery.
Jordan Allred, RVT
Jordan was born and raised in Burlington, NC. She earned her BS in Health Promotion and Education with a concentration in Pre-Health from East Carolina University and graduated in 2015 from the Veterinary Medical Technology from Central Carolina Community College in Sanford and became a Veterinary Technician that same year.
Jordan has been working in the veterinary field for many years; including emergency medicine. In her spare time she enjoys hanging out with her dogs Chubz, Nyssa, Riggs, and Teller as well as her two cats Bacardi and Firefly.
Hunter Ledbetter, RVT
Hunter has worked in the veterinary field for 6 years and joined Southern Animal Hospital full time in 2019. She has a degree in Aquarium Science as well. Hunter keeps busy taking care of her cats, dogs, and chinchilla! She enjoys going to the beach in her limited spare time with her boyfriend Keith.
Kristina Lengel
Kristina joined Southern Animal Hospital as our groomer in June 2020. We are very excited to have such an experienced groomer joining our team! Kristina is Dr. Boo’s sister and they grew up grooming dogs at their family’s grooming shop All About Pets Grooming. Kristina started grooming in 1998 and most recently was grooming at Top Notch Pet Spa in Raleigh. She’s competed nationally in grooming competitions and most recently was on the North Carolina Groom Team.
In her spare time, Kristina enjoys showing her Springer Spaniels and Afghan Hounds in conformation, dock diving, lure coursing, rally, and scent work. She currently lives in Mebane with her two children.
Hi, I am Trouble The Cat!
You might have seen my adorable pics on Facebook and Instagram and wondered about my story. I am the most important team member at Southern Animal Hospital in Mebane, North Carolina! And boy do they need me to keep everyone in line! But my story starts before I became a Mebanite.
I was probably born around May 2016. I don’t remember much about my first home, but at my second home I was just a little kitten and had to live outside. But I am not scared of anything and that got me in trouble. I was hit by one of the big, fast moving things humans like to ride in. Thankfully my owner brought me to see Dr. Boo when she was working at All Paws Pet Emergency. I was pretty sore, but still happy and purring with all of the attention they gave me. They told me I had a broken femur-not sure what that means except it slowed me down for a while-and my tail would need to taken off. My owner tried but couldn’t care for me. So I got to go live with Dr. Boo until I was feeling a little better.
During this time, Dr. Boo realized I couldn’t eat normally. I was always so hungry! But everything I ate came right back up-that’s ok it tasted great the second time too! Everyone thought I must have something wrong from my accident. But after consulting with lots of smart people, they realized I was born with this problem. Someone mentioned big words like megaesophagus and vascular ring anomaly. Not really sure what all of that means except now I get lots of meals throughout the day and I eat really yummy canned food! I have these guys well trained to feed me. They talked about adopting me out, but I made myself so irresistible they just couldn’t do it. I mean who doesn’t want a cat that can climb to the top of the cages and cabinets, helps clean the trash cans out, and sometimes rearranges their medications!
I am having a blast learning new tricks. They tell me if I learn enough tricks I can be famous one day. Not real sure what that means either, but I hope it means I get more food! I already know how to sit, spin, come (this one is hard sometimes when there’s so much exciting stuff to see), and high five. I have fun doing something they call agility, weaving, and going on a teeter. Everyone keeps saying how smart I am-all I know is I get yummy cheese when I show off my tricks. Some days when I am feeling lazy you can find me sleeping in the office with my dog buddies-of course I always take the biggest bed. Those dogs need to know who is the boss!
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Trouble
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