Dave Perrin was raised in Casino, a small town nestled in the hills near Trail, British Columbia. He attended Selkirk College in Castlegar, the University of British Columbia, and the Western College of Veterinary Medicine at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
He graduated as a veterinarian in 1973 and practised in the Creston Valley until 1998. After a year in Hawaii where he began writing the first book about the profession he loved, he returned to his farm in Lister, BC.
He established Dave’s Press and has published five previous books on his veterinary adventures: “Don’t Turn Your Back in the Barn” (2000), “Dr. Dave’s Stallside Manner” (2001), “Where Does It Hurt?”(2003) “Never Say Die”(2006), and “When the Going Gets Tough” (2010) In 2004 Dave’s Press published a book about a young girl growing up in the fundamentalist Latter-Day Saint community of Bountiful, called “Keep Sweet: Children of Polygamy”.
Dr. Perrin’s newest book “Better Late Than Never,” will be released in August of 2018. He lives and writes in the log home he built on his farm in the community of Lister.