Dr. Reid was born in New Orleans, Louisiana but grew up in the small town of East Granby, Connecticut. He had decided that Veterinary Medicine was his passion ever since high school. He attended undergraduate classes at Louisiana State University and obtained his doctorate at the LSU school of Veterinary Medicine State University in May of 1981. After graduating, he came to Connecticut and entered into private practice in Storrs, Bristol, and Wallingford before settling in Trumbull at Mobile Veterinary Clinic in August 1987