Dr. Shaffer is a graduate of Louisiana State University College of Veterinary Medicine. She is a Hot Springs native and happy to be helping the pets and their families of her hometown.  Her professional interests includes exotic animal medicine, acupuncture, and preventative health care. She is a member of ARAV, Arkansas VMA, and AVMA. When not seeing patients, she enjoys going on outdoor adventures with her husband and taking care of her menagerie of dogs, cat, ferrets, rabbits, snakes, and a lizard. In her downtime she manages an obsessive reading hobby, tends to her carnivorous plants, and plays DnD with friends