Claudia started working at VCA Pacific Avenue Animal Hospital in March 2020. Beginning her time at VCA as a client service representative working overnights, swiftly moving into a position as a veterinary assistant working overnights with our Emergency team. With a 20-year background in retail and corporate management and customer service, Claudia then took a position as the hospital assistant manager in June 2021. Shortly after becoming interim hospital manager, and eventually taking on the full job of hospital manager. Claudia still enjoys helping out the team on the treatment floor, assisting with patients whenever possible.
Claudia is bilingual in Spanish and English. Lived in sunny California for the great majority of her life before moving to the PNW in 2004. A self-professed crazy-cat-lady, Claudia loves all animals, but has a special place in her heart for cats of all types. She has an undisclosed, but embarrassingly large number of cats, a German shepherd dog and a goofy pit bull/Labrador mix. Claudia attended university abroad for a couple of years studying veterinary medicine and zoology before moving back home to California to help out family and joining the workforce in retail and corporate management. She is mom to three college students! Married to a wonderful and supportive Washington native. When Claudia is not at work, she enjoys hiking, crochet, PC gaming, online classes for coaching and mental health, watching ghost shows, and spending time with her husband and kids. Claudia also volunteers for Search and Rescue and her children's school whenever possible.
