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The Trail-Gazette
Dr. Doolittle appears in Estes Park at hunter jumper show
08/08/2003
Rex Harrison’s movie role as Dr. John C. Dolittle popularized the already wildly agreeable character described in the fictional account of a physician-turned-vet who could talk to animals and counted a two-headed llama among his four-footed pals.
Estes Park’s hunter jumper show recently drew its own Dr. Doolittle, spelled with two o’s, from Highland Village, Texas, a far north suburb of Dallas, Texas.
Like TV’s popular Dr. Dolittle, this Dr. Denise Doolittle also talks to animals, but not a twoheaded llama. Instead she chats with her 11-year-old Oldenberg warmblood gelding, Paramount, as well as a variety of dogs, cats, ferrets and rabbits in her busy small animal practice.
Dallas Morning News
Meet a real-life Dr. Doolittle
06/24/2000
As a little girl, Denise Doolittle never played with dolls. She did have a toy microscope and stethoscope, though. And lots of stuffed animals.
“I remember vividly having this Betty Crocker plastic oven,” she says. “At the bottom you could open it up. I remember sticking my stuffed animals in there and boarding them.”
She pretended the oven was a cage at the animal clinic.
“We have to board you here, ’cause you’re sick,” she told the animals.
The Lewisville News
Local veterinarian works hard to maintain light atmosphere at clinic
08/29/2000
Dr. Doolittle’s Animal Hospital resembles a first grade classroom just as much as a veterinarian’s office. Jokes, teasing, and childlike quarrels over lunch are not uncommon between the staff.
“We have a lot of fun here,” says Dr. Denise Doolittle, owner of the Animal Hospital in Highland Village, which is approaching its five-year anniversary.
Doolittle is the giddy schoolgirl of the staff, who gets excited when you ask her a question. She hardly resembles a woman who has been doing the work for 13 years, except in her expertise and experience. She frequently sings and changes her voice when talking to the animals, much like you would with a baby.
