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Doctor of Veterinary Medicine , (DVM) All veterinarians at Casselton Veterinary Service, Inc. are licensed to practice in North Dakota and Minnesota. They have all passed rigorous training. In order to become a veterinarian, one must attend an accreditated veterinary medical college and pass a national board exam. In some states, such as North Dakota, the veterinary medical board also requires a state exam. Requirements to attend a veterinary college usually take 2-4 years of college courses at a state university with emphasis on sciences such as chemistry, biology, genetics and zoology. Each of the 25 colleges in the United States, have different requirements. Most classes consist of 25-30 students/year. So it can become fairly competitive to get into vet school.
Our Veterinarians treat a variety of animals including:cows, horses, pigs, dogs, cats, and rabbits. All our veterinarians are trained in treating all these animals, although a few have more training in different species than others, and some see a few more "exotic" animals, such as elk, bison, emus and ferrets.
Dr. Mark Wieland , DVM (owner) Dr. Mark Wieland graduated from Univerisity of Minnesota in 1980. His pre-veterinary studies were compeleted at Valley City State University from 1974-1977. He has been with Casselton Veterinary Service since graduation and became a part owner in 1983. Dr. Wieland mainly works with eqine and bovine but don't be surprised if you see him in our small animal clinic as well. Dr. Wieland has a special interest in equine artificial insemination.
Dr. Wieland is a member of many professional organizations such as American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP), American Association of Bovine Practitioners (AABP), American Association of Swine Practitioners (AASP), American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), North Dakota Veterinary Medical Association (NDVMA) and Minnesota Veterinary Medical Association (MVMA).
Dr. Wieland and his wife Barb have 4 lovely children Anthony, Adam, Gregory and Rachel. They also have a minature schnauzer named Gretta. Dr Wieland enjoys woodworking and watching high school sports, especially since his children are competing now in various sports.
Dr. David Calderwood , DVM (owner) Dr. Dave Calderwood graduated from Iowa State University in 1980. He fufilled his pre-veterinary requirements at North Dakota State University. Dr. Calderwood started his career in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, working there for 3 years before moving back to North Dakota and working a year in Enderlin. He became part owner of Casselton Veterinary Service in 1984. Dr. Calderwood's main interest is large animal care. He also spends a considerable amount of time in small animal surgery and care. Dr. Calderwood has a special interest in elk, llama, and bison. He is a member of AABP (American Association of Bovine Practitioners), AAEP (American Association of Equine Practitioners), AASP (American Association of Swine Practitioners), MVMA (Minnesota Veterinary Medical Association), North American Elk Breeders, and NDVMA (North Dakota Veterinary Medical Association). He has served as president of the NDVMA.
Dr. Calderwood and his wife June were married in 1977. They have 3 children Matt, Nikki and Ryan (deceased). Matt and his wife Rene moved to Sidney, Australia in 2004, giving Dr. Calderwood and June an opportunity to visit in 2005. Nikki is studing to become a physical therapist at University of Mary in Bismark, ND. They have a Lhasa Apso, Kinzie. Dr. Calderwood has 9 elk as well.
The Calderwood family enjoys waterskiing and wakeboarding in the summer and snow skiing and snow boarding in the winter. Dr. Calderwood does awesome wood working whenever he gets a free moment. | 
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Dr. Brad Bartholomay , DVM, CVA (owner) Dr. Brad Bartholomay graduated from Iowa State University in 1990. He prepared for veterinary school by attending North Dakota State University from 1983-1986. He was a member of the Army Reserves as a medic and later as a veterinarian in the ND Army National Guard. Dr. Bartholomay joined Casselton Veterinary Service after graduation and became part owner in 1992. Dr. Bartholomay has furthered his education by attending an acupunture course from 1999-2000 through IVAS (International Veterianry Acupuncture Society). He also has attended Options for Animals Animal Chiropratic course (2002-2003), IVAS Herbal courses in 2001 and 2004, and a course through American Veterinary Chiropractic Association in 2003. He is certified in acupuncture and chiropractic. Dr. Bartholomay is a member of many professional organizations including:American Academy Veterinary Acupuncturists (AAVA), American Association of Bovine Practitioners (AABP), American Veterinary Chiropractic Association (AVCA), International Veterinary Acupuncture Society (IVAS) and North Dakota Veterinary Medical Association (NDVMA) Most of Dr. Bartholomay's cases are reserved for acupuncture and chiropractic patients including cats, dogs and horses. While he is kept busy with these patients he continues to perform surgeries and see other cases as well. He has many referrals from all over ND and eastern MN.
Dr. Bartholomay and his wife Debbie have three children Melissa, Jessica and Derek. They also are kept busy with "Missy" a black labrador retriever, and "Jack", a DSH cat.
In his free time, Dr. Brad enjoys running, reading, cutting/splitting wood for his fireplace, gardening, and camping/canoeing. | 
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Dr. Dan Burchill , DVM (owner)
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Dr. Dan Burchill graduated from Iowa State University in 1993. He became part owner in 1993. Dr. Burchill is our all around vet. He can be seen in large animal or small. He performs a large amount of our surgeries including orthopedics.
Dr. Burchill and his wife Donita have two children Kade and Maddie. They also have 2 dogs, a great dane named Truman, a goldendoodle named Finnegan and a jack russell, Mallory, as well as a couple of horses. |
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Dr. Laurie Bauer , DVM (owner)
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Dr. Laurie Bauer obtained her Bachelor of Arts from Concordia College, Moorhead while fulfilling her pre-veterinary courses. She then attended Iowa State and earned her DVM in 2003. She is a member of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) and North Dakota Veterinary Medical Association (NDVMA). Dr. Bauer enjoys seeing all the species that come through our doors. She especially likes preforming surgeries, including orthopedics. Dr. Bauer became part-owner in 2008.
Dr. Bauer and her husband Bobby were joined in 2001 by a daughter Jalyn, in 2003 they became proud parents of a son, Tate and in 2008 another boy, Brady. Their home is graced by 2 labrador retrievers:Josie and Duke.
Dr. Bauer enjoys spending time at the lake with family and friends, playing sports, and doing outdoor activities.
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Darin Peterson , DVM (owner)
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Dr. Darin Peterson graduated from South Dakota State University with a B.S. degree in Animal Sciences and went on to graduate from Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine. Darin is a member of several Professional Organizations including AVMA, AAEP, AABP, NDVMA and the MNVMA. In 2008, Dr. Peterson became a part-owner of Casselton Veterinary Service.
Darin enjoys rodeo, horse training and hunting. He has one dog, Kenzie, an Austrailian/Red Heeler mix and one horse, Diamond, a Palomino Quarter Horse Gelding. |
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Jackie Schmid , DVM
Dr. Jackie Schmid is a 2006 graduate of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. Prior to becoming a veterinarian, Dr. Schmid enjoyed a 15 year career as an environmental engineer. She is a native of North Dakota and received her Bachelor’s of Science degree from the University of North Dakota in geological engineering.
Dr. Schmid enjoys all aspects of veterinary medicine, especially internal medicine and surgery. She worked in the Boise, Idaho area prior to coming back to North Dakota. She is a member of the American Veterinary Medical Association.
Jackie shares her home with an Australian shepherd mix, Festus and enjoys snow skiing, water skiing, and gardening.
Management
Dori Torkildson , Manager
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Dori has the big job-Manager-of keeping everyone on track here at Casselton Veterinary Service. Dori attended Minot State University and earned an AS in accounting as well as a BS in Business Administration Finance. She is a member of the Veterinary Hospital Managers Association.
Dori lives in Casselton with her 2 daughters Melainy and Megan. The Torkildson family has a dog Tressa and 2 cats: Pumba and Sid. Dori enjoys stamping, working out and reading. |
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Molly Fletschock , Large Animal Manager
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As one of our Casselton residents, Molly shares her home with her husband Joe and their beautiful daughters Rylee, and Carlee. In Molly's spare time she enjoys lake activities with the family, gardening, biking and rollerblading. An employee of Casselton Vet since 1996, most of our clients know Molly as a familiar face behind the desk. Molly keeps our large animal schedule hopping! |
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Shyla Strandlien
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Shyla is one of the smiling faces you'll see around the clinic. She is our inventory manager and keeps us running smoothly. She has a BS degree in Business Administration from Minnesota State University of Moorhead. Shyla shares her home with a dog, Gizmo, a Siberian Husky. |
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Technician
Licensed Technician , LVT All our technicians at Casselton Veterinary Service are licensed Veterinary Technicians (LVT) in North Dakota. Each state has different requirements, in North Dakota a candidate must be a graduate of an AVMA accredited Veterinary Technology program (most with BS degrees, some with AS) and must pass a national board exam in order to become licensed. Some states give the technician a license, some use certification and yet in other states, the technician is registered. All these terms have the same weight or value. While the term "technician" is used even for those without a license, our clinic employs only licensed personnel for technician duties. Those "trained on the job" are called assistants.
If you were to compare Licensed Veterinary Technicians (LVT) to the human/medical field, you would need more than one term to describe their duties. Think of a nurse, lab tech, radiology tech, anesthetist, dental hygenist and surgery prep person all in one as well as beautician, receptionist, medical transcriptionist, and janitor at times. LVT duties include lab work, positioning and taking radiographs, hooking up intraveneous catheters, obtaining blood and urine specimens, giving and monitoring anesthesia, scrubbing for and assisting in surgery, cleaning teeth, preparing prescriptions, giving injections and other medications, monitoring hospitalized patients, getting a physical exam and history on sick patients, client education and restraint when needed. Licensed Veterinary Technicians are able to perform all tasks at a veterinary clinic except:prescribe, diagnose or perform surgery.
Susan Kieffer , LVT Susan has been a licensed veterinary technician since 1987. She earned her AS degree in Veterinary Technology at National College in Rapid City, SD. She is a member of the North American Veterinary Technician Association (NAVTA), and the North Dakota Veterinary Technician Association (NDVTA), where she has served as treasurer and president. Susan also serves on the VTTC and CVTEA committees which govern the National Board exam for veterinary technicians. In 1999, Susan was awarded the Vet Tech Making a Difference Award and the ND Vet Tech of the year.
Susan and her husband Adrian, have 2 wonderful children, a son Ethan and a daughter Carlie. They make their home on a farm with Cookie and Oreo both domestic shorthairs, and Tardy, an American Quarter Horse. | 
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Lisa Trader , LVT Lisa
graduated from North Dakota State University in 1995 earning her BS in
Veterinary Technology. She is a member of the North Dakota Veterinary
Technician Association and has served as the president. She has
special interests in equine, behavioral medicine and small animal
dentistry.
Lisa
has a son, James and shares her home with a Great Dane, TigerLily, and
a boxer mixed breed, Cleo. In addition, they have a cockateil, 4 barn
kitties, and 2 Quarter horses:Chance and Diva.
Lisa
enjoys trail riding and camping with the horses. She and her son have
spent many hours camping in the Badlands of North Dakota as well as the
forests of Minnesota. Lisa also likes to cook, read, fish, attend car
shows (and spend as much time not cleaning her house as possible!!!).
Maribeth Ulmer , LVT Maribeth earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Veterinary Technology.
She has 2 children, too many pets to list and enjoys reading, horses and crafts. | 
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Tammy Treitline , LVT Tammy attended North Dakota State University earning a BS in Veterinary Technology with a minor in Animal & Range Science. She is a member of the North Dakota Veterinary Technician Association and licensed in North Dakota. Tammy has quite a household at home of pets: "Taz" a Rotweiler/Lab/German Shepard cross, "Jiffy" a Great Dane/German Shepard/St. Bernard cross, and many horses. Along with her mother, they have KT Arabs, raising quality Arabian horses and miniature horses. Tammy enjoys tooling leather, trail riding and taking in horse shows in her spare time. | 
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Tonah Dickhaus , LVT
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Tonah graduated from North Dakota State University in 2002 recieving her Bachelor of Science in Veterinary Technology. She is a member of the North Dakota Veterinary Technician Association (NDVTA) and has served as the secretary since 2005.
Tonah plays softball in the summer and likes reading and being outdoors. Tonah and her husband, Jeff have a boy, Riley.
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Randi Metcalf , LVT
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Randi graduated from North Dakota State University with a Bachelors of Science in Veterinary Technology. She is a member of the North Dakota Veterinary Technician Association.
Randi spent 2 1/2 years as a technician at an emergency clinic in South Dakota before returning to North Dakota. Some of her special interests here at the clinic involve critical care medicine, surgery, and preventative/corrective small animal dentistry.
When she's not working, Randi enjoys reading, watching movies, sports, and being outdoors. She shares her home with 2 cats, Jinkies and Lucy. |
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Abby Rohrbeck , LVT
Abby recieved her BS in Veterinary Technology from North Dakota State University. She is licensed to practice in North Dakota and a member of the North Dakota Technician Association.
Abby has interests in the equine field. She is a member of NBHA (National Barrel Horse Association) and SVTPA (Sheyenne Valley Team Penning Association). Abby and her husband Kevin have a son, Marty and a daughter, Autumn. They share their home with 4 cats:Cinnamen (a domestic longhair), Dori, Rydia and Tootsie (all domestic shorthairs) and 1 dog:Daisy, whom she rescued. Abby was working at a veterinary clinic in Minnesota when a blue heeler, Daisy, came in for an appointment. She had been hit by a car and needed a leg amputation, and the previous owners could not afford the surgery. Daisy now has a wonderful home. Abby and Kevin also have 4 horses:Dexter, Fred and Doc (all Quarter horses) and Roscoe (a Paint/Thoroughbred cross), with whom they enjoy trail riding and competing in Team penning. Abby also competes in Barrel Racing. |
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Kim Krzyzaniak , LVT
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Kim graduated from NDSU with a B.S. in Veterinary Technology. She is a member of the North Dakota Veterinary Technology Association.
She has 3 pets that live with her. Riah and Ricky are black Pugs, and Sadie is a medium hair tuxedo cat. When she has a little bit of down time she enjoys scrapbooking, camping, swimming, bowling and reading. |
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Michelle Brandt , LVT Michelle is one of our newest technicians. She graduated from North Dakota State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Veterinary Technology in May of 2006. She is licensed in the state of North Dakota and is a member of the NDVTA.
Back at home, she has 5 horses, one of which is her pride and joy -"Cheyenne" (a Dunn/Paint Gelding). She also has a cow named "Squishy" - (don't ask how she got that name), plus many other pets.
Michelle enjoys spending her free time outdoors with the animals and riding horse anytime she gets the chance. She also loves spending time with her family, especially her two little nephews. | 
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Kristin Faleide , LVT
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Kristin is one of our technicians. She graduated from NDSU with a BS in Veterinary Technology in May of 2006. She attended Lake Region State College and earned an Associate of Art degree and then 3 years at NDSU for her Vet Tech degree. She is also a member of NDVTA. Her pets include a cow named "Licorice" who lives at her parents' (Joe and Charlet Bohl) farm and a cat named "Mr. T". Kristen and her husband Luke have one child, Hayden. Kristen has 1 brother - Jerald (and Kristen) Bohl and 1 sister - Mary Jo Bohl. She also has 1 nephew - Carson, and 1 niece - Marisa. Kristens interest's include horseback riding, spending time at her parents farm, being at the lake, fishing and being with her friends. |
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LaRessa Mattson , LVT LaRessa and her husband Brad currently live in Fargo after living in Wisconsin for several years. They have 3 children; Elle, Emerson and Dru. They also share their home with a friendly yellow lab named Cleo.
LaRessa graduated from NDSU with a Bachelor's Degree in Veterinary Technology in 2007. She is a previous graduate of the Professional Institute of Massage Therapy and enjoys equine, feline, and canine massage.
LaRessa enjoys spending her spare time scrapbooking, reading, camping, and spending time with her family.
Alicia Karger
Reception
Jessica
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Jessica lives right here in Casselton with her husband Jered of 9 years, and their daughter Riley. She has been a Girl Scout Leader for two years and is an active member at their church. When Jessica is not at work she loves to be outside planting flowers and spending time with family friends.
Smiley the cat and the Lhasa Apsos, Lolly and Lucy keep the family busy too. And they have four goldfish. Between all of that she still manages to come and work for us. We really enjoy seeing her smiley face. |
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Mari Mari and her husband Joe are proud parents of two college students: Kyle(married to Kristin) and Katie. Mari enjoys quilting, biking and spending time with her family. | 
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Judy Judy currently lives in Casselton. She is the mother of four: Johanna, Amanda, Brandon, and Kimberly whom are all out on their own. She also has one grandson: Link.
In her spare time, Judy enjoys spending time with her children and playing grandma, sewing, walking and watching football and Nascar. She also partakes in Super Stock Racing in West Fargo and Lisbon and occasionally attends in Aberdeen.
Idey Idey and her husband Ken (of Ken's Heating and Airconditioning of Casselton) have 12 children; 6 boys and 6 girls. All are grown and either married (and have given her 20+ grandchildren) or single with jobs and/or are college enrolled.
Idey and Ken are enjoying the "empty nest" with their spoiled rotten puppy "Willy". Idey also spends a few Saturday mornings as the counter gal at Sandy's donuts in West Fargo.
Jackie Jackie, previously from Iowa (a HAWKEYE, not a Cyclone!!), now lives in Casselton with her husband Brandon and their three children; Chloe, Parker, and Ava. They also have two dogs, Molly and Rip Van Whiskers.
Jackie is an active member with the Fargo-Moorhead Kennel Club and participates in Conformation shows iwth her Griffon, Rip.
When Jackie isn't busy working, showing dogs, or playing with her kids she loves to scrapbook and make homeade greeting cards.
Darcee Darcee is our medical transcriptionist and lives in Casselton with her husband Mark, sons Chad and Devin and German Shorthaired Pointer, Kita. She enjoys watching her boys play sports and occasionally goes hunting with the rest of the family. Darcee has had many "careers" in the past and went back to college at MSCTC graduating in July 2007 with a Medical Transcription degree. Darcee enjoys being a part of the vet clinic team.
Kennel
Assistants
Kerri Eisenlohr Kerri graduated from Duluth Business University with a Veterinary Clinical Assitant degree in 2000. She worked as a groomer at Petco for 5 years before joining our team.
Kerri loves spending time with her husband, Eric & her daughter Maddisen. She also shares her home with Morton, a Peke/Doxi mix. | 
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Brandi Anderson Brandi graduated from LIdgerwood Public High School in 2001 and from there attended SDSU from 2001-2003 focusing on Animal Studies. From 2003-2004, she attended NDSCS for Business Administration and in 2004-2006 attended NDSU for Equine Studies.
Brandi has a twin sister, Desiree and two brothers, Marshall and Dylan. Her parents, Brian and Dawn live on the family farm in Lidgerwood along with many family pets. Among these pets are Dakota's Storm and Dakota's King, both Quarter Horses; Lucie, a Border Collie/Beagle mix; Sassy, Marmalaid, Frank, Sasha, Roo, Jelly, Mr. Puddles, and Sobby, all cats; and Tweety, a parakeet.
In her spare time, when she isn't working at the clinic, Brandi enjoys horseback riding, reading, sketching, photography, gardening, hunting, fishing and spending time with friends and family.
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