About Us

About Mercury Street Veterinary Hospital

Mercury Street Veterinary Street Hospital has been providing high quality and compassionate veterinary care to animals on the East rand for over three decades. We are dedicated to providing comprehensive, caring, and affordable services We are driven by our passion for helping animals and giving their people the support, they deserve. We know that your pet is precious to you and your family, therefore we treat your pet as if it were our own. We will be with you and your pet every step of the way, whether it’s for a simple wellness check or preparing for end-of-life care.

Doctor Pearson Mercury Street Veterinary Hospital Veterinary Surgeon and Clinical Director

Dr. Heather Pearson

Clinical Director &
Veterinary Surgeon

Dr Pearson has been practicing veterinary medicine at Mercury Street Vet for the last 20 years. She graduated from Onderstepoort in 1994 and has a passion for all creatures. In addition to her veterinary duties, Dr. Pearson is responsible for the overall management of Mercury Street Veterinary Hospital.

Outside of the practice, Dr. Pearson is an avid scuba diver and when not submerged she can be found in one of South Africa’s game parks.

Dr. Re-Jeanne Kotze

Veterinary Surgeon

Dr. Kotze is a general practitioner, she qualified in November 2009. She has previously worked in practices around the East Rand and has worked at Mercury Street Veterinary Hospital for 3 years. She enjoys getting to know her clients and patients, so that she can build a relationship of trust from the first visit to Mercury Street Vet.

She has a special interest in internal medicine by which she practices her diagnostic skills, client communication and soft tissue surgery (which she has a keen and special interest in).

Dr. Mizel Reynders

Veterinary Surgeon

Dr. Reynders qualified in 2018 and completed her CCS year in Siyabuswa in 2019. During this time, she learnt that if she pursued her career in veterinary with love and passion, she would be able to make a world of difference for the animals she helped. She worked at a few small and mixed animal practices where she gained a vast amount of knowledge and experience, before joining the Mercury Street Veterinary Hospital team in 2022. She is passionate about surgery and is always willing to lead a helping hand.

Outside of the practice, Dr. Reynders is mom to a beautiful little girl and enjoys spending time with her family and her show jumping horses.

Bronwen

Practice Manager
& Receptionist

Bronwen has worked at Mercury Street Veterinary Hospital for over 25 years. She is the practice manager and is involved in every aspect of the running of the practice. She has a passion for animals and absolutely loves our clients and finds that helping them and their pets is no challenge. She believes strongly in good customer service and working together as a team.

Outside of the practice, Bronwen keeps herself busy with running, cycling or anything active, she is a sucker for punishment.

Diane

Receptionist

Diane has worked as a receptionist at Mercury Street Veterinary Hospital for approximately 30 years and worked in animal welfare for 10 years before that.

The most enjoyable part of her job is educating our clients on how best to keep their pets healthy through proper nutrition, preventative care, and vaccinations.

She believes it is wonderful meeting new puppies and kittens for their first check ups and seeing how they grow into healthy adult fur family members.

Lindsay

Receptionist

Having never worked in the veterinary industry before, Lindsay started work at Mercury Street Veterinary Hospital as a receptionist a few weeks before the initial lockdown in March 2020.

She has always worked with customers and clients but never of the animal variety and she is continually amazed at how interesting, rewarding and sometimes heart-breaking it can be. We all love our pets buts she says that working at Mercury Street Veterinary Hospital has given her an insight into how important the correct veterinary care is to their wellbeing.