Founder/Executive Director/RVT

Carolyn graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. She spent 24 years as an educator in southern California, teaching mathematics in underserved areas of Los Angeles and Orange County. In 2017, after volunteering for a mobile veterinary clinic for a year, she decided to change careers and went back to school to become a registered veterinary technician. Carolyn was troubled by the number of pets being euthanized in shelters and dying on the streets, and figured the best way to reduce this number was to find a way to spay/neuter more of them. She visited numerous clinics in southern California, trying to learn as much about high-quality, high volume spay/neuter. In November of 2024, she created the non-profit, “Furever Family,” to provide low-cost veterinary care, first and foremost, spay/neuter services for people who might not otherwise be able to fix their pets.

Elizabeth Edmunson, DVM

Surgeon

Dr. Elizabeth Edmunson, a Southern California native, earned her bachelor’s degrees from UC San Diego and her veterinary degree from UC Davis in 2008. After working for six years in a busy Los Angeles practice, she gained extensive experience in soft tissue surgeries and spay/neuter work with nonprofits SNP LA and Fixnation. Since moving to Orange County in 2014, she has focused on soft tissue surgeries, including spays with “keyhole” incisions for quicker recovery. While not a board-certified surgeon, Dr. Edmunson has advanced training in various soft tissue procedures and now travels to multiple Orange County hospitals to offer her surgical experience.

Julia Hamilton-Fears

Registered Veterinary Technician

Julia graduated from Cal Poly Pomona (go Broncos) back in 2010 and got her RVT license in 2011. She started out at a General Practice in Yorba Linda for the first 3 years of her career. After that, she went into shelter medicine for the next 10 years. She thrived in the High Quality High Volume setting of the shelter – spaying and neutering an average 35 animals per day. She also dabbled in marine mammal medicine as well. These days, she is a contract HQHV RVTg, volunteer at SCVMA and am an instructor of vet assistants. 

She lives in Orange County with her husband, one cat and 2 doggos. They love to be outside – so hiking, camping, fishing and so on. Traveling is also a huge part of Their lives. Vet med is something that she loves and has been so lucky to be doing it 15+ years!