Rhinebeck Animal Hospital

10/20/2025

🚨UPDATE🚨

Our software issues are resolved! Thank you for your patience 🐾❤️

10/20/2025

We now know the current global tech outage is the cause of our veterinary software issues. Please be patient as we navigate our way through these issues together. This will not affect our team from providing the best veterinary care for your pets! As always, we appreciate your patience. 🐾❤️

10/20/2025

Hello Everyone,
We are experiencing a software issue today that does not allow us to do many things. If you call our team will do the best they can to help but may need to call you back once the system is fixed. We are doing everything we can to resolve this issue as fast as possible. We appreciate your patience in this matter.

Send a message to learn more

10/16/2025

Check out our monthly article on
Ear Infections
By our own Dr Porter

Pet Vet Blog by Rhinebeck Animal Hospital offers you Veterinary Medicine Updates, Pet Care Alerts and pet wellness tips to keep your pets healthy year round.

10/16/2025

Let's talk rabbits for a minute.

We had a rabbit 🐇 spay that our L.V.T Heather was able to scrub in on.
Here is a little information about spaying and neutering:

• If you do not plan on breeding your rabbit, spaying or neutering is strongly recommended.

Spaying a female rabbit is very important for her health and longevity.

Female rabbits can be spayed as early as 4 to 6 months. Spaying early will prevent the most common reproductive cancers or rabbits including ovarian, uterine, and mammary cancer.

The majority of female rabbits will develop these cancers by the time they are 4 years old if they are not spayed early.

Male rabbits can be neutered as early as 4 to 6 months. This may decrease urine spraying and aggressive behavior and make them easier to train.

Here is Dr. Van Demark and L.V.T Heather assisting. L.V.T Lexi monitoring anesthesia during an spay procedure on Nutella the rabbit 🐇

10/16/2025

Andrea and Lexi are just doing what they do best ❤️❤️❤️
Helping our sweet fur babies. ❤️❤️

Keep checking in. You might see some more candids from the other teams as well.

10/16/2025

A few pictures from when K104 stopped in today.

10/16/2025

Veterinary Technician week continues.

Meet our LVT family.

Top picture:
Heather
Andrea
Lexi

Bottom picture:
Heather
Amber
Tierney

Missing:
Agathe
Lisa

10/15/2025

Licensed Veterinary Technician (LVT)

What do you know about Veterinary Technicians?

You might be surprised in what it takes to become an LVT.

Do you know when the 1st Veterinary Technician week was?

It was 1st celebrated in 1993.
It is always celebrated the 3rd week of October.
Established by the National Association of Veterinary Technicians in America. (NAVTA)

Purpose:
To recognize and promote the contributions of veterinary technicians.

Schooling:
All licensed veterinary technicians have to go to an accredited vet tech school.

You can choose the 2 yr path with an associate degree.
Or
You can choose the 4 yr path with a bachelor's degree.

Once you graduate. You then have to sit for your VTNE
(Veterinary Technician National Exam)

This exam is 170 multiple choice questions lasting about 3 hours.

Most U.S states and Canadian provinces require you to pass this exam to be eligible to be a Licensed Veterinary Technician

The VTNE is administered by the American Association of Veterinary State Boards (AAVSB).
To be eligible to sit for this exam you must have graduated from an accredited vet tech program.

The exam covers 9 areas
*Pharmacy and pharmacology
*Surgical nursing
*Dentistry
*Laboratory procedures
*Anesthesia
*Animal care and nursing
*Diagnostic imaging
*Emergency medicine
*Pain management

The exam is administered 3 times a year.

Once you pass your exam you then have to apply through your specific state board which will want your VTNE results, transcripts and possibly other requirements and pay the required fee.

In N.Y.S a vet tech license is good for 3 years and within that 3 years you have to complete the required number of CE ( continued education) hours for that time frame and pay the required fee

10/13/2025

07/18/2025

Please join us in congratulating Cindy, our bookkeeper, on her 30 year anniversary!! 🥳🐾 Thank you!!

06/23/2025

It's hot and it's forecasted to get hotter...follow these simple steps below to help keep your furry friends safe this summer! Our team is happy to answer any questions you may have. Stay cool 🐾☀️