Our Philosophy

Compassionate care isn't just our name, it is our practice.  In order to provide your pet with the best veterinary care, we have to be able to earn your trust.  Good communication is vital to being able to formulate a treatment or wellness plan for your pet. We will always try to provide up to date education handouts, treatment plans, and alternative therapies whenever possible in order to help you, help your companion pet.

We also believe that we are part of the communtity, and to that end, work closely with local shelters and rescue organizations to try and help abandonned animals find loving, life long homes.  The clinic offers a discount to anyone who adopts a pet from a rescue organization or shelter for 6 months after the adoption, and has a feral cat program to help people that are dealing with an overpopulation of stray cats.  We work closely with Doberman Rescue Unlimited, East Coast Italian Greyhound Rescue Organization, Out of the Pits and into the Ritz pitbull rescue, All American Dachshund rescue, the Woonsocket Cat Sanctuary and the Lincoln and Cumberland Animal Shelters.

Our Hospital

The Compassionate Care Veterinary Clinic opened in January of 2008 in order to provide an urgent medical care facility for the north-east section of Rhode Island and south-west Massachusetts.  In the last year, we have expanded our services to promote long term care for chronic illness, hospice care, and care of small mammals. We are now a full service hospital, offering appointments for yearly check ups and vaccines, urgent care, chronic illness care, hospice care, and final arrangements for your pet.

Over the last 4 years, we have grown from a 3 employee facility, to a 3 doctor,  8 support staff practice that is currently in the process of achieving Dr. Farrington's dream of having a stand alone, enviro friendly, full service facility. Our hope is to be in the new hospital, with 4 doctors and 15 staff by next year. Once we are in the new facility, we will be open from 8 am to 10 pm Monday through Friday, and 8 - 4 on the weekends.

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Who We Are

Dr. Linda Farrington

Practice Owner and Veterinarian

Dr. Farrington graduated from Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine in 1993 and has been practicing in Rhode Island since 1994.  She has extensive experience in soft tissue surgery, internal medicine, and hospice care.  Dr. Farrington is a member of the Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society.

Dr. Ranjini Abraham - Dr Abraham graduated from Tuskegee University School of Veterinary Medicine in 2006 and earned a certificate for Lab Animal medicine from the University of Guelph in 2010.  She worked predominatntly in small animal preventative care before joining our team. 

Dr. Laura Roman - Dr Roman graduated from Kansas State University in 2006. She spent her first two years after graduation, at a full service  animal practice where she gained experience with emergency and chronic care medicine, and the next four years at a small animal practice in Westfield, Mass.

Dr. Richard Coates - Dr. Coates earned his veterinary degree at the Royal  Dick School of Veterinary Studies in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2011.  After graduation, he worked in a companion animal hospital where he developed a strong interest in small mammal medicine and surgery, and chronic illness care. 

 Dr. Amy Kaspryzcki - Dr. Kaspryzcki earned her veterinary degree at the Royal Veterinary College of England in 2004.  Since graduation, she has worked as a general practice veterinarian in England and  Connecticut, and as an emergency veterinarian in Michigan.  She recently finished a one year internship in emergency medicine and surgery at Ocean State Veterinary Services.