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ElizaElizabeth Woolsey Herbert DVM
Elizabeth Woolsey-Herbert was born to Roy Rogers and Dale Evans in December of 1950. She has the honor of being one of a handful of people who actually was really born in San Francisco, California. In a cruel twist of fate however, she was switched at birth and wound up going home with Dr. and Mrs. J.H.Woolsey, a veterinarian and his wife, a mother until she memorized the Dewey decimal system and sought escape from being Elizabeth's mom, which you now know she really wasn't her mom.
Elizabeth (Boo to her friends) was raised in Sebastopol, California, a small town north of San Francisco where she showed no talent for anything academic, but played softball fairly well. She graduated from Analy High School where she was taught English by a probably now deceased Mrs. Hastings who would be laughing herself sick if she wasn't dead to think that: of all her students over the years, this girl wrote a book!
Elizabeth went on to the University of Calif. Davis where again she showed no talent for writing or any academic pursuits. She is not remembered by any professors and one would have to search the records to show that she even attended, again except for a starring role on the Powder Puff football team “The Mother Goosers”. She was the quarterback. She graduated in 1974.
 (photo by Shelley Herbert)
She then began to pursue a career in veterinary medicine, and possibly has the Guinness's world record in rejections of applications to veterinary schools. Eventually, and after a move to Alabama, and after starting a master's degree in Veterinary Physiology, she was accepted into the graduating class of 1984 at Auburn University School of Veterinary Medicine. To the shock and amazement of her friends and family she actually excelled in her studies and graduated with many honors and a high GPA.
She then pursued her career back in California. She first “practiced” to practice veterinary medicine in an “All Creatures” hospital in rural northern California. She decided small animals that bite and were deeply loved by their owners were not for her, and she quickly migrated back to Sonoma County and joined her “father's” (of course we know he wasn't really her father) practice which was horses only. She stayed in that practice until she started her own equine practice in the same area.
One day an Aussie walked in asking for work. She could see instantly he was trouble and refused to hire him until her staff, in love with the accent, threatened to quit unless he was hired. He was trouble and in a very short time Elizabeth married him and moved to Adelaide, South Australia in 1991.
She eventually had a daughter, Shelley, and started her own horse practice in the town of Gawler thirty miles north of the capital city, Adelaide. She combined raising the daughter and work but eventually she and her husband went their separate ways. Elizabeth continued to practice in a semi-rural area in the plains of Adelaide surrounded by snakes, brumbies (Australian wild horses) and the occasional kangaroo which has somewhat prepared her for being the mother of a pre-teen (if that is possible). Her practice is a mix of different types of horses, from pets to the occasional famous racehorse.
In a moment of madness she began to write some of the stories she forces her friends and staff to endure. If the truth be known, they actually encouraged her. To this day she continues to reside in Gawler, South Australia and writes and still “practices” to practice equine veterinary medicine and raise or be raised by her worldly and wiser eleven-year-old daughter. Who also knows she was switched at birth, as it is impossible to be as hip as she is, and have such a lame mother.
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 Where to Buy the bookTable of
Contents
5. "Cooper"
6. "The Team"
7. "Missy"
11. "Nemo's Death"
14. "The Drought"
16. "Hamilton"
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