Janet has extensive experience working with dogs, cats, horses and many exotic animals.  She specializes in working with horses but she is available to assist with your pets behavior problems as well.  Please call if you have any questions.  

1981 Graduated from Devon Technical Institute, a horse management school in Ohio. Classes included pre-veterinary care, nutrition, equine genetics as well as hands on horse handling and  training. Janet trained a horse who had a rope attached to his halter just so he could be caught in the stall, using gentle techniques that are very popular today (pictured above) 

1982 Managed a thoroughbred race horse farm (32 horses) and in addition, spent a couple of years working on the racetrack galloping and ponying thoroughbred race horses

1984 Continued to own and train horses and entered college. Janet has an Associates degree in Applied Science. She is a Licensed Veterinary Technician

1985 to 1995 Worked in small animal practice (primarily dogs and cats but also included birds and various exotic animals)

2012 to current: Research Technician Senior working part time in Cardiac Surgery where she manages rat colonies prone to diabetes and stroke which includes feeding special diets and phenotyping.and part time in Pediatric Surgery performing surgery on mice; including placig jugular catheters and intesttinal anastomosis on mice to create a mouse model for short bowel syndrome and total parenteral nutrition

Started a small business providing technical assistance to research investigators using mice and rats in their research projects: RATS LLC

Janet invented a more comfortable mouse restrainer and a device that makes anesthetizing rodents safer for people by reducing waste anesthetic gas users are exposed to: 
Induction Chamber Evacuation (ICE)  Safe Niche Products 

1. examines how the animal's genes and genotype affect the anatomy and physiology of the animal