Rarebreed Veterinary Partners

A huge thank you to Peg Wheeler MS, LVT, VTES, FVTE, CVBP, Career Coach for taking the time to speak with our students during one of our Vet Tech Week Spotlight webinars! 🐾 Our students absolutely loved her webinar they found her insights inspiring, her advice on networking invaluable, and her passion for the veterinary profession contagious. We’re so grateful to have dedicated professionals like Peg who are willing to share their time, experience, and encouragement to help the next generation of vet techs grow and succeed. #VetTechWeek #VeterinaryTechnician #PennFoster #Gratitude #VeterinaryEducation #Networking

It’s Tuesday of #NationalVeterinaryTechniciansWeek and here I am again to say how important you all are and how much Rarebreed Veterinary Partners appreciates every one of you! Yesterday I had the honor of representing Rarebreed at the Long Island University Career Fair for both veterinary students and veterinary technician students. These mixing of students creates such a great understanding of the role each of these professionals plays on a team and I wish we could see this more often. The weather made a solid attempt to interfere with the LIU event…the nor’easter destroyed a few umbrellas but the show did go on and it was a busy and rewarding event. My goal is always to learn something from students…what’s the takeaway here? DVM students are largely worried about finding solid mentors. And our vet techs whom we celebrate this week have many concerns all related to the sustainability of their careers. Mostly though, I learned that they are all highly motivated, passionate, and ready to take vet med into the future. And thank you to Dr. Taylor Davis of Garden City Park Animal Hospital for joining me! Dr. Davis did a wonderful job talking to these students about transitioning in to practice and her experience working for Rarebreed. It was so fun to have another person in the booth!! And then today I had the new experience of presenting a webinar for Penn Foster Veterinary Technician students nationwide. These students face challenges that can be daunting. They require veterinary teams that help teach them in a more intrusive way than students in face to face programs require. But vet med is in desperate need of every single vet tech student we can support so please consider mentoring one of these students if they come your way. Thank you to all of our Rarebreed Veterinary Partners teams that have been so generous with their time and resources in supporting Penn Foster students. Finally, my conversation with the Penn Foster students was largely about #networking and finding great #mentors. I give this talk often and offer my contact info to students to connect so they can start building their network now. Sometimes I hear from a couple but today I have gotten a LOT of emails! Very impressed and grateful for the opportunity to talk to these hard working students. #vettechs #dvm #students #nvtw #careerfairs #careerdevelopment #fun #love #respect

Shout out to some really great Veterinary Technology Student Ambassadors who were hosting activities before I even had their paperwork processed! It was the first week of classes and these over-achievers were already working to build community with their peers while helping us grow awareness about Rarebreed Veterinary Partners. 👏 We are most grateful to Moriah Takacs at Bergen Community College , Katelyn Babine and Lily Franklin at the University of Maine at Augusta, Kathryn Reichman at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Sarah St. Pierre at the University of New Hampshire. 🙌 I’m looking forward to a great year of working together with these hard working veterinary technology students! These young leaders are exactly what our industry needs…they are not only excelling at their own work but they are willing to step up and support activities that will be of value to others and their program. 👏 #vettechs #studentambassadors #studentleaders #youngprofessionals #fun #love #respect

Last week I had the pleasure of returning to Lancaster County Career and Technology Center Veterinary Technology program to speak at their Fall Orientation. The energy of students starting a new year is infectious and this group REALLY excelled! Their School Chapter of National Association of Veterinary Technicians In America (NAVTA) had already created a really fun video to encourage more students to join. Hoping they share video with NAVTA so others can enjoy it too! I had a blast with these students and look forward to seeing how Rarebreed Veterinary Partners can support their program this year ❤️ #vettechs #fall2025 #orientation #navta #studentlife #fun #love #respect