Matt Carriker Biography
Matt Carriker is an American veterinarian and YouTuber. He is the founder of three YouTube channels: DemolitionRanch, Vet Ranch, and OffTheRanch.
Matt practices veterinary medicine at Fair Oaks Ranch Veterinary Clinic. He practices veterinary medicine at Fair Oaks Ranch Veterinary Clinic in Boerne, Texas. Matt also is the owner and founder of Bunker Branding Co, which manufactures and sells merchandise, both for Carriker’s channels and for other YouTubers.
Matt Carriker Age
Matt Carriker is an American veterinarian and YouTuber. He is the founder of three YouTube channels: DemolitionRanch, Vet Ranch, and OffTheRanch. He was born on October 21. 1986 in Boerne, Texas. Matt Carriker is 32 years old as of 2018.
Matt Carriker Family
Carriker was born and raised with his brothers, Mark and Drew, and sister, Allie, in Boerne, Texas. His father is a veterinarian. He attended Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences in 2008 and received his veterinary license in 2012. Matt has not reveled his parent’s details. The information is under review and will be updated soon
Matt Carriker Wife
Matt Carriker married his long-term girlfriend, Meredith Atkinson(née Atkinson). The couple was the high school sweetheart. Carriker and Meredith met in 10 grade and fell in love at first sight. Before that, they both had a boyfriend and a girlfriend. They left their respective partners and began dating each other.
The pair got engaged in 2007, later they turned their relationship into a marriage. Matt and Meredith have three children together. Their two daughters named are Adalyn Carriker and Annie Carriker and a son, Abby Carriker.
Matt Carriker Net Worth
Matt Carriker is a famed American veterinarian doctor and YouTube star. His YouTube channel “Demolition Ranch” has successfully garnered over 5.6 million subscribers and 763 million views. He runs two more channel named ‘Vet Ranch’ and ‘OffTheRanch.’ He has an estimated Net Worth of $1.8 million dollars as 2019.
He makes more money from the ads that appeared on his channel. Without ads, Matt generates extra income from YouTube Red viewers who pay a monthly fee to view the premium content on his channel. The longer viewers watch their videos, the more Matt earn. He earns a significant amount of money from his another two-channel.
Matt Carriker DemolitionRanch
In 2011, Carriker started his YouTube channel, DemolitionRanch, as a veterinary student. The channel began with him and friends using a GoPro to record themselves using guns.
Videos topics include firearm reviews, penetration experiments, and what Carriker terms “redneck science” involving the damage created on various objects by different ammunition types.
Matt Carriker Vet Ranch
Carriker bought the veterinary clinic from his father, Dr. Lee Carriker, who also graduated from Texas A&M as a vet and appears in occasional Vet Ranch videos helping homeless animals.
Carriker founded Vet Ranch, a non-profit organization, in February 2014. It is a group of veterinarians, including fellow Texas A&M graduate Karri McCreary, who treat animals from high-kill shelters and the street. Medical expenses are raised through donations and advertisements on the Vet Ranch YouTube channel.
Most animals come from San Antonio Pets Alive, which also helps find homes for animals after they are treated. Carriker also has a vlogging YouTube channel called OffTheRanch. It includes videos about his family life outside of veterinary medicine and firearms.
Oh yeah! Dr Matt Carriker of the YouTube channel @DemolitionRanch contacted me! We are meeting up soon to see his Abandoned Mansion and see if I can give him a good game plan for the remodel. Stay tuned for a #buildshow Come on! #demolitia pic.twitter.com/PfIeM5jyRC
— Matt Risinger (@MattRisinger) August 6, 2019
Matt Carriker Height | Matt Carriker Weight
The veterinary doctor is a slim hulk. He stands at a height of 6 feet 9 inches tall and a weight of about 211 lbs. Most of the animals treated by him are often rescued by San Antonio Pets Alive (SAPA) and they mostly get adopted by worthy people afterward. The Canadian vlogger Peter Czerwinski has been a guest on his DemolitionRanch channel. His’s birthplace is Texas while his birth sign is Libra.
Matt Carriker Movie
Matt has acted in a movie titled Strain 100 after which he started seeing offers from television companies to make a series of his animal rescue. He declined all. After surviving a terrifying car crash, a young woman discovers that aggressive, flesh-eating zombies have overtaken the entire area. She must figure out what is happening and why in hopes of escaping her horrifying circumstances.
Matt Carriker Veterinarian comes to the rescue of homeless animals
Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s a veterinarian!
Superman is known for his supernatural powers and fighting in tights and a cape. Usually, he’s battling Lex Luthor and steering clear of the ever-immobilizing kryptonite. But brute strength and lightning speed do not always a hero make. A real-life superman can don scrubs and carry a scalpel and save just as many lives. Example: Matt Carriker.
The veterinary profession runs in Carriker’s family and is part of his inspiration.
“My dad is actually a vet, and I watched him doing it and I decided that’s what I should do also,” he said.
After graduation from Texas A&M with his veterinary license in 2012, Carriker and his family relocated to Boerne, Texas, where he started practicing at a small animal clinic.
Although he finds veterinary medicine fulfilling, Carriker says he was surprised by some of the cold hard facts of animal medicine.
“I didn’t realize how many homeless animals there are, and they euthanize hundreds a year; that was eye-opening for me. And a lot of them are healthy animals.”
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics reports there are 218 million pets in the U.S. and Americans spend an average of $500 a year on their pets. With the cost of vaccinations, food and other medical services, it’s no wonder so many animals are homeless and without funds to treat them.
After seeing firsthand how many animals don’t end up in deserving homes, he began to wonder if there wasn’t another way to help homeless animals.
“Every vet has taken a handful of animals under their wing and completed surgeries or treatments for free just because they want to help, but we can’t do that every time. We can’t afford it. We have families to feed and bills to pay,” he explained. Then an idea popped into Carriker’s head that changed his entire life in the span of a year.
Social media superpowers
Carriker says he started his first YouTube channel, Demolition Ranch, while in vet school. Demolition Ranch is a channel all about guns. He films himself in different firearm scenarios and teaches about guns along the way. It is now the fourth-largest gun channel on YouTube and the channel just passed 1 million subscribers, according to Carriker. With the success of his first YouTube channel, Carriker began to imagine a way to use the power of social media for something other than fun.
“I began to wonder if I could make videos that actually have a positive influence on the world besides just making entertainment.”
In February 2014, the YouTube channel Vet Ranch was born.
Initially, he planned to use the funds generated by the YouTube channel to pay for homeless animal treatments but quickly realized money would only go so far. He could only treat one to two animals a month when he had hoped to treat as many as he could.
“I was getting ready to quit, then people started asking if they could donate money to the treatments,” he said. “I started a non-profit organization, we began accepting donations from the public and now we can pretty much treat as many animals as time allows.”
Superhero in action
Carriker films his patients before, during and after treatments so donors can actually see where their money is going. His cases range anywhere from dogs hit by cars to homeless hedgehogs to horses in need of a dentist. Once the treatments are completed they move on to the next step, a forever home.
Currently, the channel has more than 300,000 subscribers. It has been so successful he has added three additional veterinarians to the mix to keep up with the number of cases and donations received.
“Vet Ranch allows us to treat way more animals than if we were doing it all out of pocket,” he added.
Ever devoted to his craft, Carriker works around 30 hours a week as a veterinarian at the clinic where he is employed and an additional 30 hours a week being a YouTube master, video editor and completing Vet Ranch treatments and surgeries.
Someday he plans to take Vet Ranch to another level and spend his time solely fixing homeless animals that wouldn’t have had a chance without his help.
“The way I see it is any vet can vaccinate a dog. If I don’t vaccinate a dog, the owner will drive them to another vet clinic and they’ll give them vaccines, but not just any vet can fix homeless dogs because they don’t have the funds to do it. If I’m not there to fix a homeless dog, it might not get fixed and it might get euthanized instead. I think I can serve a better purpose in doing this.”