Farm experience and formal training meet at Community Animal Clinic

Kay Reasor’s work with animals extends beyond the exam room. The Community Animal Clinic veterinarian and her husband raise beef cattle and meat goats. Her professional training began at Virginia Tech and continued at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, where she graduated in 1991.

Reasor joined the Wytheville practice in 1996. Her combination of veterinary work and farm life is one of several paths represented in its team.

Frances Grubb earned an animal and poultry science degree from Virginia Tech before completing veterinary school in 2001. She began working at the clinic in 2004 and has remained involved in farming and livestock activities. Rachelle Kopp, who joined in 2014, studied biology and marine biology at the University of Hawaii at Hilo before graduating from Iowa State’s veterinary school in 2006.

Training has also created routes into the practice for its support staff. Patrisha Yates worked as a veterinary assistant in 2018 and 2019, then returned as a licensed veterinary technician after graduating from Blue Ridge Community College in 2021. Her earlier veterinary-assisting coursework was at Wytheville Community College.

The practice gives clients a digital way to stay in contact through the Otto app, including appointment and prescription-refill requests. That sits alongside the work of its veterinarians, technicians, assistants and customer-service staff at the South Third Street clinic.

Community Animal Clinic is at 995 South Third Street in Wytheville. The office can be reached at 276-223-1234 or cacwytheville@gmail.com.