Our History
Doctors Louise LeBoeuf and Peter Smith founded Yarmouth Veterinary Center in 1986. The practice began as house-call with home base being the little red house built in 1826 on the corner of Bridge and Willow Streets in Yarmouth. They immediately began renovating and converted the attached dirt-floor shed into a cozy three-and-a-half room hospital, which included housing their first x-ray machine in their living room.
A year later Louise and Peter moved out allowing the practice to expand into the entire house. And a few years after that they renovated a little old cape on the other side of Willow Street, turning it into a grooming salon and boarding kennel.
In the summer of 2000 Drs. Louise and Peter completed construction on the next step in the evolution of Yarmouth Veterinary Center, on the site of their former Willow Street boarding and grooming facility, across from the beloved antique house that served them so well for so many years. YVC was finally housed in a facility designed, constructed, and equipped to allow them, and their wonderful associate veterinarians and staff, to provide the best veterinary care possible for their client's pets.
Continuing the tradition of home-grown veterinary care, doctors Louise and Peter’s son, Dr. Zachary Smith, graduated from University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine in 2017 and joined the practice in 2018.
Louise, Peter, and Zach continue to expand the quantity and quality of the services offered at YVC. This has brought them to the next iteration, the construction of one of Maine’s largest, privately-owned, state-of-the-art veterinary hospitals. Construction is underway and they plan on moving in by the end of 2024.
While the x-ray machine isn’t in the living room anymore, and they will be no longer located in Yarmouth, their core values of family-first veterinary care still drive every decision at Yarmouth Veterinary Center.
