Technicians

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Sandra Whittaker
Large Animal Head Technician
Sandra joined the practice in the summer of 2002 as the clinic's first full time employee.  She started out as a "jack of all trades"; she was the receptionist, technician, janitor, office manager, groundskeeper, and any other job that needed doing.  As the clinic has grown, she has become more specialized and primarily works as the primary large animal veterinary technician, and inventory manager.  Her versatility enables her to fill in any place she is needed.
Sandra is from Germany, and is now a naturalized American citizen; she loves the lifestyle of this area.  She along with her daughter Samantha and husband Andy own several horses and dogs and are very involved in the local horse community.  

Allison Dunning

Large and Small Animal Technician 
Allison Dunning started working with us January 2023. She has interest in both small and large animal medicine. Allison is currently working towards her Veterinary Technician License. She is passionate about being an advocate for all animals that come through the clinic and providing the best possible service to the clients. When Allison is not at work, you can find her enjoying the outdoors with her friends and family or out at the barn with her horse. She looks forward to meeting you and your animals. 

Lauren Winzenried

Large and Small Animal Technician
Lauren joined the clinic in January of 2021. She has her bachelor’s degree in Biology from BYU, where she served as the president of the Pre-Vet Club. Lauren has spent the past few years working at a busy small animal clinic in Utah. She has also interned at several mixed and large animal clinics, a veterinary diagnostic lab, and a zoo. Lauren has a passion for genetics and reproduction and would like to eventually become a board certified theriogenologist (veterinary reproductive specialist). She currently shows and breeds AKC Border Collies.

Kathryn Beardin

Large and Small Animal Technician 
Kathryn joined the RVS team in January of 2023. She is a large and small animal technician. She loves working with all your animals. In her free time she enjoys working with her horse "Breezy", spending time with her dog and cats, and enjoying the outdoors.

Niah Griffin

Large and Small Animal Technician Saturdays
Niah joined the team in September 2022 while serving as the Queen of the Lewiston Round-Up. Niah is currently a senior at the University of Idaho as a pre-veterinary medicine student. In her free time, she enjoys riding horses and hanging out with her two dogs “Cooper” and “Callie”. Niah grew up on a cattle ranch and enjoys working with cattle. Niah also enjoys helping the local horse 4-H program in Moscow. 

Mackenzie Moore

Small Animal Technician. 

Codi Holloway

Small and Large  Animal Technician
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Cassidy Spencer

Small Animal Technician
Cassidy joined the RVS team in 2017.  She started as a kennel tech and now works primarily as a small animal technician. Currently working toward becoming a certified dog trainer, she takes particular interest in reactive/anxious dogs. Outside of work she enjoys singing and dancing in musicals with the Lewiston Civic Theatre. Most of her free time is spent with her dogs, Sparrow and Maybelle.

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Danielle Acey
Small and Large Animal Technician​
Dani joined the team in September of 2021. She is a Clarkston Native and U.S Army Veteran. Her true passion has always been to work with Animals - “Better late than never”. She is currently attending Penn Foster to obtain her Veterinary Technician Certification, where she hopes to specialize in Large Animal Care. She loves spending her free time at her family cabin Riding, Hiking and Fishing with her Husband, 3 children and fur kids Huckleberry and Obi-Wan. She is grateful for the opportunity and looking forward to everything this wonderful clinic and team can teach her. 
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Sierra Johnson 

Small Animal Technician 
She has been working in Vet Med for 4 years and have been with Rustebakke vet since December 2021. She will be attending Purdue University’s (distance) Veterinary Nursing program in the fall. She is a wife, mother of 2, and one baby on the way in November.  She has 2 Australian Shepherds; Samhain (5) and Rocky (1) and a cat named Tarot (3). She has always loved animals and she is looking forward to finishing her Veterinary Nursing degree and licensing, and to bring the most up to date knowledge and training to the RVS team. When she is  not helping to save animals in our community, She loves camping with family. She looks forward to meeting you and bringing you and your fur-babies the best care possible.

Riley Kottkey 

 Small Animal Technician
Riley joined us in May 2022. She started out as Kennel tech, and has now started as a Veterinary Technician for us. She is now taking courses at Penn Foster to become a certified Veterinary Technician. On her free time she loves going camping, playing with her dogs "Kacey" and "Kylie", and going to country concerts. 

Jodie Cimino 

Veterinary Assistant

Karlie Peavey

Kennel Technician Manager 
Karlie joined in February of 2023. She started out as a Reception and now has moved to a Manager of our kennel techs. She started her horse passion in 2012 with her own horse and has loved working with horses ever since. In her free time, when she is not working she can be found spending all her time with her son and husband. 

Josie Carpenter

Kennel Technician 
Josie currently just joined us working as a kennel tech. She hopes in the future to go to WSU and become a large animal vet. Outside of work she enjoys spending time with her family, going camping, and playing guitar. She has grown up around animals, specifically swine, and joined 4H to get further experience with caring for animals and she is also apart of FFA doing parliamentary procedure.