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Rutherglen Veterinary Clinic
Dr Penny Reeves - Veterinarian & Practice Owner
BVSc (Hons), Cert Vet Acup
Penny graduated from the University of Sydney in 2000 and grew up on a hobby farm in Henty where she raised many lambs, joeys, possums and ducks. She started her career in a mixed animal practice in Corowa before setting up the Rutherglen Veterinary Clinic in 2008. She decided to open this clinic to provide essential Veterinary services to the Rutherglen and surrounding communities in a caring and professional environment. Penny became interested in acupuncture after attending a seminar where a torch was used instead of needles, with immediate results, she then qualified as an animal acupuncturist in 2012 and spends her spare time with her cat Remus, meditating and singing with friends. Penny's special interests include medicine and acupuncture.
Dr Angela Decker - Veterinarian
BVBio BVSc (Hons)
Ange joined our team in 2017. She grew up on a beef farm at Glen creek in North-East Victoria with a menagerie of pets and studied her Veterinary degree at Charles Sturt University, graduating in 2012 with honours. Since graduating, she worked predominantly in small animal practice along with a couple of short stints in farm animal practice mainly in the North East of Victoria, and also assisted in the development of the Veterinary Technology degree through CSU where she developed and lectured in 3 of the final year subjects (Emergency animal nursing, surgical and anaesthesia nursing and veterinary medical nursing). She lives with her wonderful husband of 6 years and their 2 beautiful daughters on their beef farm in Glen creek. In her spare time she enjoys horse riding and snowboarding.
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Pictured with "Angus."
Kayla Jenvey - Veterinary Nurse
Certificate IV in Veterinary Nursing
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Kayla joined the team in 2013. She grew up in Corowa and has always had a passion for animals. She completed a Certificate II in Animal Studies in 2014 and Certificate III in Companion Animals in 2017. She completed her Certificate IV in Veterinary Nurse with Microchip Certification in 2019 and was award GoTafe Vet Nurse Student of the year. She currently has two dogs "Ziggy" and "Zippa" and two cats "Panda" and "Ally", but has had animals of all of her life. Kayla finds her work very rewarding and enjoyable. She finds hospital cases to be the most satisfying and rewarding, as she is able to nurse an animal back to health and send them back home to their loving families. She loves caring for the animals and people of Rutherglen along side the caring team at Rutherglen Vet Clinic. In her spare time Kayla enjoys photography and spending quality time with her family and pets. She spends many weekends raising young kittens for our adoption program.
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Pictured with "Ziggy" & "Zippa."
Cindy Garro - Veterinary Nurse
Certificate IV in Veterinary Nursing
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Cindy joined the team in April 2018. Cindy grew up in Albury and from the age of 12 she was breeding Zebra Finches and owned 3 cats and a goldfish. She now owns a property near Barnawartha where she spends her spare time with her family, horses and dogs. Cindy previously worked at a boarding kennel and volunteered at the Bendigo RSPCA Animal Shelter. She quickly realised that Veterinary Nursing was her passion and completed her Certificate IV in Veterinary Nursing in 2016. Since then, she has worked as a casual/on-call nurse for a Vet Centre in Wodonga and then worked full time at an Animal Hospital in Albury. She is now loving working with the caring and wonderful team at Rutherglen.
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Pictured with "Bluely" & "Spirit."
Pauline Pepper - Veterinary Nurse
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​Hi I'm Pauline, I have always had a passion for animals growing up on a farm. I have been a vet nurse for 20 years working in different clinics over the years. Veterinary nursing is a very enjoyable and rewarding job. The days are always different.
I started working at the Rutherglen Veterinary in 2008 when it first opened and have recently taken a 3 year break, now returning to the clinic I love. I have a husband and 2 children, along with our 4 family dogs living on a 1 acre property in Mulwala.
In my spare time I love to spend time with family, cooking and exploring the outdoors in our caravan camping. ​​​​​​
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Kloi Bretton - Veterinary Nurse
​Certificate IV Veterinary Nursing
Kloi joined the team at the beginning of 2024. She grew up in Wodonga and has always had a great love and passion for animals. Graduating from GoTafe Wangaratta at the end of 2023 with a Certificate IV in veterinary nursing. She finds her work as a Vet Nurse very rewarding, especially surgical and hospital cases. She grew up with a Chocolate Labrador and cats but currently has a Hungarian Vizsla named Caspian who she spends her spare time with. Kloi loves all animals but has the biggest soft spot for large breed dogs and cows. She has hopes of starting University next year to continue her education in Veterinary Medicine. Outside of animals, Kloi loves cars and motorbikes and tries to go to as many meets and cruises as she can.
Maddie Stringer - Veterinary Nurse
Certificate II Veterinary Nursing
Maddie recently joined our team completing her Certificate II in Animal Studies, and while working with us, has begun her Certificate lV in Veterinary Nursing. She made the move from South Australia in 2022 where she became a farm hand that worked with cattle and reignited her love of animals. She has a cat ‘Jager’ and dog ‘Dexter’ but has grown up with a range of pets and stock all her life. Maddie finds Vet Nursing to be a very rewarding and enjoyable job, where she gets to help animals every day and get cuddles from patients waking up from surgery. In her spare time, she enjoys playing with her pets and having quality time with her loved ones.
- Veterinary Nurse
Certificate IV in Veterinary Nursing
coming soon
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Pictured with "Diego."