Suzanne Brown, DVM Suzanne grew up in Houston and answered “veterinarian” in kindergarten when asked what she would like to be when she grew up. When her family briefly moved to a house that did not allow pets, she convinced her parents to purchase a hamster for her that could be hidden in a closet during surprise landlord inspections. Her 7th-grade science project was to put one of her cats on a diet, using her other normal-weight cat as the control group. In high school, she spent the summer after 10th grade administering rabies vaccines to dogs in rural Ecuador and discovered a love of foreign language and travel. After a gap year in Spain, college took her to the University of Texas at Austin where she majored in zoology.

She received her DVM from Texas A&M University in 2003 making her a rare Longhorn/Aggie combo. While there, she explored many facets of veterinary medicine, including doing bench research on chicken anemia virus in Mexico, foot-and-mouth disease in Argentina, and fetal alcohol syndrome using a sheep model. During her third year, she discovered a love of diagnostic imaging, specifically ultrasound.

Dr. Brown’s entire practice career has been focused on central Texas. Her work experience includes two 8-year stints at local small animal hospitals, as well as countless relief shifts in many clinics in the area. After performing all the in-house ultrasounds for a practice for several years, she decided to seek further instruction in diagnostic ultrasound and obtained well over 300 hours of ultrasound continuing education. In 2012, she purchased her first ultrasound machine and began performing diagnostic ultrasounds for many clinics in the area. Since then, she has continued to serve over 20 practices in the central Texas area by performing ultrasounds for their clinics. As a previous partial owner of the Animal Emergency Center of Temple-Belton, she served in multiple capacities on the Board of Directors over the years, including President.

Her professional interests include internal medicine, infectious disease, diagnostic imaging, and feline medicine. Her partnership with Dr. Lisa Reeve in opening Barks & Bliss Veterinary Wellness allows them to offer a full range of diagnostic, treatment, and surgical services to all the pets of the greater Temple area. She enjoys the challenge of diagnosing difficult cases and loves teaching owners how to care for their pets’ behavioral and medical needs. Dr. Brown is certified in Low-Stress Handling. Dr. Brown and her husband Craig have 4 daughters: Anna, Grace, Claire, and Audrey. Over the years, they have had many pets but currently share their home with a cat named Pirate and a dog named Ricky. Veterinarian & Owner Lisa Reeve, DVM From an early age, Lisa loved to care for animals and always hoped to be a veterinarian one day. She loved her dogs, cats, hamsters, and fish, but also tried to “rescue” any animal that came across her path including turtles, birds, snakes, and lizards. She found friendship with her pets and loved them dearly. After graduating from Temple High school, she attended Texas A&M to pursue her dream. She graduated in 1991 with a Biomedical Science degree; however veterinary school was not meant to be at that time. Little did she know that her dream of becoming a veterinarian would be fulfilled later in life.

Soon after graduating, she began a rewarding 20-year career at Scott & White in Temple as a stem cell transplant specialist and cancer researcher. She then received a Masters degree in Health Services Management at the University of Mary-Hardin Baylor and served as the Administrative Director in the Cancer Center until she was invited to initiate the staff Wellness Department at Scott & White. Over her 20 years in healthcare, she gained invaluable experiences both in compassionate, high-quality care treating cancer; and community wellness. After an amazing career in healthcare, she revisited the opportunity to go back to vet school. It didn’t take much for her to realize that she would achieve her dream! The support of her loving husband, kids, and friends was phenomenal. Within the year, she was accepted to Texas A&M and cherished every hour as an Aggie Vet student.

Dr. Reeve graduated from Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine in 2017 then began practicing in small animal medicine and surgery clinics in her Central Texas community. She is in constant pursuit of continuing her education and training through attendance in soft tissue and orthopedic surgery courses, as well as medical oncology rotations and training. She enjoys small animal medicine and surgery with an emphasis on prevention and wellness, oncology, soft tissue surgery, dental health, dermatology, and reproduction. Dr. Reeve is certified in Low-Stress Handling. She dedicates two weeks most years to provide care to the animals in the Turks & Caicos Islands, one of her favorite contributions to veterinary medicine and home to the world’s most beautiful beach. She strives to provide compassionate care and treats her patients as though they were her own, including dogs, cats, and small mammals.

Her partnership with Dr. Brown to bring Barks + Bliss Veterinary Wellness to the Central Texas community we love, is a dream come true. Lisa is married to Robert, and together they have three adult children, Samantha, Allison, and Dylan. Their furry family includes their Pomeranians, Max and Bianka; their Labradors, Jax and Jewel; and forever in their hearts the memory of their rescue Goldendoodle puppy, Bruiser; and their first family pet Labradors, Rocky and Nikki. Veterinarian & Owner Sierra Key, DVM Sierra grew up in Georgetown, Texas, and found her love for animals at a young age that started with her first dog, Turbo. She was very involved in 4-H and helped start the East View FFA chapter when she entered high school. From sheep, goats, rabbits, chickens, and ducks, Sierra was always busy raising animals and learning more about each species. Sierra spent a couple of days after school each week working at a veterinary clinic in middle school and high school, striving to see as much veterinary medicine as possible. Through these experiences, Sierra knew she wanted to be a veterinarian.

After graduating high school in 2014, she began her bachelor’s degree at the one and only Texas A&M University, studying Animal Science. She had the opportunity to go on two study abroad trips in Argentina and Costa Rica, enlightening Sierra on veterinary medicine in different countries. This is where she found her love for traveling and experiencing different cultures.

When she was in Aggieland, she worked a few days a week at the Stevenson Companion Animal Life-Care Center where she gained valuable skills caring for beloved geriatric pets. The Stevenson Center is a facility that provides 24/7 care for animals when their owners pass away. Sierra graduated with her Bachelor of Science in 2018 and in the spring of 2019, she found out she would spend another four years in Aggieland pursing her doctorate in veterinary medicine!

Sierra loved her time in vet school and will cherish the memories and lifelong friends she made during those four years. She continued to work at the Stevenson Center during vet school and through her studies found a love for small animal internal medicine and general surgery. She graduated from Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine in May 2023 and is thrilled to start her new life in Temple with her fiancé, Matt.

Dr. Key strives to provide the best care for her patients and their owners. Her areas of interest include general surgery, internal medicine, dentistry, preventative medicine and geriatric care. She is certified in Fear Free handling and is an AVMA First Responder. Dr. Key is excited to provide care to the pets of Central Texas and join the fantastic team at Barks and Bliss Veterinary Wellness. Veterinarian & Owner

Suzanne Brown, DVM Suzanne grew up in Houston and answered “veterinarian” in kindergarten when asked what she would like to be when she grew up. When her family briefly moved to a house that did not allow pets, she convinced her parents to purchase a hamster for her that could be hidden in a closet during surprise landlord inspections. Her 7th-grade science project was to put one of her cats on a diet, using her other normal-weight cat as the control group. In high school, she spent the summer after 10th grade administering rabies vaccines to dogs in rural Ecuador and discovered a love of foreign language and travel. After a gap year in Spain, college took her to the University of Texas at Austin where she majored in zoology.

She received her DVM from Texas A&M University in 2003 making her a rare Longhorn/Aggie combo. While there, she explored many facets of veterinary medicine, including doing bench research on chicken anemia virus in Mexico, foot-and-mouth disease in Argentina, and fetal alcohol syndrome using a sheep model. During her third year, she discovered a love of diagnostic imaging, specifically ultrasound.

Dr. Brown’s entire practice career has been focused on central Texas. Her work experience includes two 8-year stints at local small animal hospitals, as well as countless relief shifts in many clinics in the area. After performing all the in-house ultrasounds for a practice for several years, she decided to seek further instruction in diagnostic ultrasound and obtained well over 300 hours of ultrasound continuing education. In 2012, she purchased her first ultrasound machine and began performing diagnostic ultrasounds for many clinics in the area. Since then, she has continued to serve over 20 practices in the central Texas area by performing ultrasounds for their clinics. As a previous partial owner of the Animal Emergency Center of Temple-Belton, she served in multiple capacities on the Board of Directors over the years, including President.

Her professional interests include internal medicine, infectious disease, diagnostic imaging, and feline medicine. Her partnership with Dr. Lisa Reeve in opening Barks & Bliss Veterinary Wellness allows them to offer a full range of diagnostic, treatment, and surgical services to all the pets of the greater Temple area. She enjoys the challenge of diagnosing difficult cases and loves teaching owners how to care for their pets’ behavioral and medical needs. Dr. Brown is certified in Low-Stress Handling. Dr. Brown and her husband Craig have 4 daughters: Anna, Grace, Claire, and Audrey. Over the years, they have had many pets but currently share their home with a cat named Pirate and a dog named Ricky. Veterinarian & Owner Lisa Reeve, DVM From an early age, Lisa loved to care for animals and always hoped to be a veterinarian one day. She loved her dogs, cats, hamsters, and fish, but also tried to “rescue” any animal that came across her path including turtles, birds, snakes, and lizards. She found friendship with her pets and loved them dearly. After graduating from Temple High school, she attended Texas A&M to pursue her dream. She graduated in 1991 with a Biomedical Science degree; however veterinary school was not meant to be at that time. Little did she know that her dream of becoming a veterinarian would be fulfilled later in life.

Soon after graduating, she began a rewarding 20-year career at Scott & White in Temple as a stem cell transplant specialist and cancer researcher. She then received a Masters degree in Health Services Management at the University of Mary-Hardin Baylor and served as the Administrative Director in the Cancer Center until she was invited to initiate the staff Wellness Department at Scott & White. Over her 20 years in healthcare, she gained invaluable experiences both in compassionate, high-quality care treating cancer; and community wellness.

After an amazing career in healthcare, she revisited the opportunity to go back to vet school. It didn’t take much for her to realize that she would achieve her dream! The support of her loving husband, kids, and friends was phenomenal. Within the year, she was accepted to Texas A&M and cherished every hour as an Aggie Vet student.

Dr. Reeve graduated from Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine in 2017 where began practicing in small animal medicine and surgery clinics in her Central Texas community. She is in constant pursuit of continuing her education and training through attendance in soft tissue and orthopedic surgery courses, as well as, medical oncology rotations and training. She enjoys small animal medicine and surgery with an emphasis on prevention and wellness; oncology, soft tissue surgery, dental health, dermatology, and reproduction. Dr. Reeve is certified in Low-Stress Handling. She dedicates two weeks most years to provide care to the animals in the Turks & Caicos Islands, one of her favorite contributions to veterinary medicine and home to the world’s most beautiful beach. She strives to provide compassionate care and treats her patients as though they are her own including dogs, cats, and small mammals.

Her partnership with Dr. Brown to bring Barks + Bliss Veterinary Wellness to the Central Texas community we love, is a dream come true.

Lisa is married to Robert, and together they have three adult children, Samantha, Allison, and Dylan. Their furry family includes their Pomeranians, Max and Bianka; their Labradors, Jax and Jewel; and forever in their hearts the memory of their rescue Goldendoodle puppy, Bruiser; and their first family pet Labradors, Rocky and Nikki. Veterinarian & Owner Sierra Key, DVM Sierra grew up in Georgetown, Texas, and found her love for animals at a young age that started with her first dog, Turbo. She was very involved in 4-H and helped start the East View FFA chapter when she entered high school. From sheep, goats, rabbits, chickens, and ducks, Sierra was always busy raising animals and learning more about each species. Sierra spent a couple of days after school each week working at a veterinary clinic in middle school and high school, striving to see as much veterinary medicine as possible. Through these experiences, Sierra knew she wanted to be a veterinarian.

After graduating high school in 2014, she began her bachelor’s degree at the one and only Texas A&M University, studying Animal Science. She had the opportunity to go on two study abroad trips in Argentina and Costa Rica, enlightening Sierra on veterinary medicine in different countries. This is where she found her love for traveling and experiencing different cultures.

When she was in Aggieland, she worked a few days a week at the Stevenson Companion Animal Life-Care Center where she gained valuable skills caring for beloved geriatric pets. The Stevenson Center is a facility that provides 24/7 care for animals when their owners pass away. Sierra graduated with her Bachelor of Science in 2018 and in the spring of 2019, she found out she would spend another four years in Aggieland pursing her doctorate in veterinary medicine!

Sierra loved her time in vet school and will cherish the memories and lifelong friends she made during those four years. She continued to work at the Stevenson Center during vet school and through her studies found a love for small animal internal medicine and general surgery. She graduated from Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine in May 2023 and is thrilled to start her new life in Temple with her fiancé, Matt.

Dr. Key strives to provide the best care for her patients and their owners. Her areas of interest include general surgery, internal medicine, dentistry, preventative medicine and geriatric care. She is certified in Fear Free handling and is an AVMA First Responder. Dr. Key is excited to provide care to the pets of Central Texas and join the fantastic team at Barks and Bliss Veterinary Wellness. Veterinarian & Owner