LARGE ANIMAL CLINIC OPENS IN CAPE

A new large-animal care clinic Cape Girardeau Large Animal Services opened recently.

Dr. David Burgermeister, a native of Arkansas, opened the facility at 853 S. Kingshighway.

He has worked in Missouri the past three years one year as associate veterinarian at the Moore Veterinary Clinic in Buffalo, a year at the Animal Care Clinic in Bolivar, and a year at Hermitage, where he operated the Animal Care Clinic through a lease agreement.

Burgermeister received his doctor of veterinary medicine degree in 1989 from Louisiana State University, where he was awarded the Merck Scholarship for outstanding students. He worked two summers in the research laboratory at Louisiana State. He received a bachelor of science degree from the University of Central Arkansas at Conway.

Burgermeister served his preceptorship at Peterson and Smith Equine Hospital and Ambulatory Service in Ocala, Fla., and another at the Racetrack Practice of Dr. Robert McFalin in Remington Park, Okla.

Before entering college, Burgermeister worked as a stable hand on a thoroughbred brood mare farm in Greenbriar, Ark., and at an Arabian horse farm in Conway, Ark.