You have to be a real animal lover to move house with three dogs and three cats but then being a veterinarian, animals are her passion so Dr Esmaré van der Walt wouldn’t have done it any other way. She joined EberVet Pet Clinic from Gauteng where she had worked as a small animal veterinarian in Vereeniging, Pretoria and Johannesburg. Dr van der Walt and her husband of 23 years, Arnold, moved to the Cape in pursuit of a more relaxed and balanced lifestyle. When not taking care of her patients at EberVet Pet Clinic, Dr van der Walt regularly hosts sterilisation and vaccination clinics in impoverished communities, or hikes her favourite mountain trails.