Having practiced in south Louisiana for thirty plus years, owned and managed three separate clinics and employed over fifteen people, Dr. P.C. Roberts and his wife Priscilla, decided to re-locate to southern Colorado and enjoy a slower pace of life.  Both were attracted to the mountains and the "old west" history surrounding the area. The first four years in southern Colorado, Dr. Roberts did mostly a house call practice and worked on horse farms, checking mares to be bred, ultrasounding for pregnancy and preparing mares for shipped semen breedings.

Traveling throughout the county and working with many of the locals, it soon became apparent that practice expansion was needed.  A building for a small animal clinic and a base of operations for equine work was a must.