Dr. Donald M. Walsh was raised on a horse farm off Melrose Road on the
border of St. Louis and Franklin counties. He spent his summers showing
American Saddlebreds at country fairs.
He graduated from the veterinary school
at the
University
of Missouri-Columbia in 1969 and began practicing
medicine
in St. Louis
shortly thereafter at the Creve Coeur Animal Hospital. A year later,
he opened the
Ellisville Veterinary Clinic,
treating small and large animals out of a building
on Clarkson Road.
In 1985, an associate took over the small animal practice,
and Walsh moved the horse practice to its current site in Pacific,
naming it Homestead.
He focused
on horses for about 10 years, then expanded again
to small animals. Don and Diana Walsh
have been living
on the
Pacific property since 1971.
They have two adult children.
The Walshes' four-legged
entourage includes
nine dogs
and several horses,
including Dakota Sundance, pictured above.
DONALD M. WALSH, DVM
