Woodside Camelid Hospital provides advanced surgical and medical care.

We offer 24 hour emergency and critical care for camelids requiring additional care beyond what can be offered on the farm.Our team is comprised of experienced board-certified veterinary specialists, animal health technicians and nurses, client service representatives, and animal caretakers.  Our staff works together toward the common goal of delivering the highest possible standard of compassionate veterinary care to ill or injured camelids and top quality client service.

Woodside Camelid Hospital contains a surgical suite fully equipped for camelid surgical procedures. We use safe inhalant anesthesia and our surgical suite is equipped with a full compliment of monitoring devices, including EKG, blood pressure monitor, and devices to measure oxygen saturation of blood.

Our internist, Dr. Shane DeWitt, and surgeon, Dr. Douglass Berry II, have extensive

backgrounds in working with camelids. Our competent staff enjoys working with llamas and alpacas with the same attentive care we give our equine patients.  

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Douglass Berry, II attended the 2011 International Camelid Health Conference in Corvallis, Oregon. 

Click here to download some highlights from this meeting. 

Dr. Douglass Berry joined our practice in February 2007 after serving as the senior surgeon at The Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine for three years. His orthopedic and Caesarian surgical experiences with alpacas were honed at the veterinary school. Additionally, numerous tube cystotomies for urolithiasis successfully performed on obstructed weathers. During his clinical fellowship at Oregon State University, Doug worked with national experts Drs. Cris Cebra and Mike Huber to develop his interests in camelids.  He identified the first reported occurrences of hyperlipidosis from malnutrition that led to their College’s later published reports.

 Dr. Shane DeWitt is our internist. He has been with the practice for 2 and half years. Dr. DeWitt’s main experiences with small ruminants and camelids are from his medicine residency at Tufts’ University, during which time he identified red maple leaves as a potential toxicant to alpacas.  This experience continued as a clinician at the veterinary school at Kansas State University, where he had the opportunity of working with Dr. David Anderson.