Location

1315 North Causeway Blvd
Metairie, (LA)
USA 70001
Tel : 504-828-2700
Fax : 504-838-8508
Email : alp@cah.nocoxmail.com

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Monday

: 7:00 A.M. - 9:00 P.M.

Tuesday

: 7:00 A.M. - 9:00 P.M.

Wednesday

: 7:00 A.M. - 9:00 P.M.

Thursday

: 7:00 A.M. - 9:00 P.M.

Friday

: 7:00 A.M. - 9:00 P.M.

Saturday

: 8:00 A.M. - 3:00 P.M.

Sunday

: 11:00 A.M. - 3:00 P.M.

Advanced Surgical Procedures

Behavior Consultations

Boarding

Complete Companion Animal Care

Complete Dental Care and X-Ray Services

Dentistry

Diagnostic Services on site

Diagnostic Ultrasonography

Elective Surgeries and Orthopedics

Endoscopy

Examinations, Vaccinations, Surgery and Medicine

Geriatric Care

Grooming

Laser Surgery

Medical Diagnostics and Hospitalized Treatment

Microchipping

Pet Food and Supplies

Pregnancy Ultrasonography

Puppy and Kitten Socialization Classes

Radiology

Routine Health Examinations

Routine Small Animal Medical and Surgical Services

Routine Surgeries

Small Animal Medicine and Surgery for Cats and Dogs

Videoscopic Exams

Wellness and Preventive Medicine

Dr. Martin St. Germain

Dr. St. Germain was born in New Orleans and was raised in the metropolitan area. He attended Cor Jesu High School and completed his pre-veterinary curriculum at L.S.U. Dr. St. Germain received his Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine from Texas A&M in 1970. After two years as a Post veterinarian in the Army, he returned to Metairie and opened Causeway Animal Hospital in 1972. He was determined to become a veterinarian when he was 12 years old and his grandmother commented he would be a good animal doctor because of the way he took care of all the neighborhood strays.
Dr. St. Germain is married to his high school sweetheart, Diane. They have two children. They have also raised several wonderful Golden Retrievers and now enjoy the company of a mischievous calico kitten named Chessie. Dr. St.Germain enjoys all aspects of veterinary medicine but has concentrated his continuing education in the area of Orthopedics and General Surgery.
" I love the work that I do and can't imagine any profession as challenging and rewarding as veterinary medicine."

Dr. Thomas A. Pelle, Jr.

Dr. Pelle is a native of New Orleans where he grew up in Lakeview and attended St. Dominic Grammar School. After graduating from St. Aloysius High School, he received his Bachelor of Science and Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine degrees from Texas A&M. He has been in small animal practice since 1969 and with Causeway Animal Hospital since 1972. Dr. Pelle's areas of interest include Internal Medicine, General Surgery, Reproductive Physiology, and Urogenital surgery.
" After 30 years of practice I consider myself very fortunate to be able to spend my life doing something that I enjoy and still find fulfilling."

Dr. Marlon J. Rovira

Dr. Rovira is a native of New Orleans. He was raised in Metairie, Louisiana and attended St.Christopher Grammar School. He then went on to graduate from De La Salle High School in 1964. He received a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology in 1969. After a tour in the Navy and some time working in industry, Dr. Rovira returned to school to receive his Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine from L.S.U. in 1980. He joined the staff at Causeway Animal Hospital at that time and has been practicing here ever since. His areas of interest include Neurosurgery, Opthalmology, Dentistry, and Endoscopy.

"I have been blessed in my life to have a great profession and great partners and asssociates to share it with."

Dr. Anissa L. Peneguy

Dr Peneguy is a New Orleans native. She was born in 1969 and knew she wanted to be a veterinarian four years later when she watched Dr. Pelle deliver a litter of Dachshund puppies. She went to St. Pius X Grammar School and Mount Carmel High School. She was the first student to graduate from LSU with a Bachelor of Science in Animal Systems on the vet school's three- plus- one program. Before going to Vet school she went to Orlando,Florida and worked at Walt Disney World for one summer. She graduated from L.S.U. Veterinary School in 1995.
She lives in Metairie with her husband David Spraul and their two Dachshunds, Stroodle and Peanut and an FIV positive cat named Chan. She also has a black lab named Licorice. Licorice lives with her grandparents.
Dr. Peneguy's areas of interest are Behavior Medicine, Dentistry, Internal Medicine, Chemotherapy, Ultrasound, Urogenital Surgery, Endocrinolgy, and Dachshunds. She is specially trained in Animal Behavior, Dentistry and Ultrasound.
Dr. Peneguy and David spend time with their friends enjoying church related functions and spending time outdoors especially in the Smoky Mountains. They also share a hobby of traveling to ride passenger trains around the country. Dr. Peneguy also decorates her home and garden as a hobby. The most important thing to her is her relationship with God.

Dr. Christine N. Harshbarger

Dr. Harshbarger was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Swarthmore College Pennsylvania in 1993 with a Bachelor of Arts in Biology. She completed her VMD (Veterinariae Medicinae Doctoris) in 1997 at the University of Pennsylvania. As the only V.M.D. on staff she has received multiple inquiries about her degree. Pennsylvania is the only Veterinary School to award the Latin language version of the D.V.M. Dr. Harshbarger spent one year practicing in a ten doctor small animal practice in Pittsburgh. In the summer of 1998, she relocated to New Orleans to be with her husband, Matt who is employed at the Audubon Institute. They also have quite a zoo at home- two dogs and five cats round out the Harshbarger family. When not taking care of pets, Dr. Harshbarger enjoys gardening, running (she completed her first marathon in March 2003), hiking and camping, and travel.
Dr. Harshbarger has received special training in Ultrasound and Endoscopy. She enjoys all areas of veterinary medicine and surgery but she is especially interested in Hematology, Reproduction, Oncology, and Internal Medicine.

Dr. Jennifer V. Foster

Dr. Foster was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She moved to Jacksonville, Florida as a little girl where she grew up on the St. John's River with many raccoons, squirrels, and manatees to keep her company and start building her bond with animals. All this experience with nature and her beautiful creatures helped Dr. Foster to understand at a young age that she wanted to become a veterinarian. She was also very active in both high school and college with the theater and choreogrpahy. Dr. Foster won an international award for choreography while still in high school.
After spending 2 years at Emory University in Atlanta, Dr. Foster graduated from Tulane University cum laude with a degree in Cell and Molecular Biology in 1994. Dr. Foster went on to graduate from The University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine in 1999 with honors. After receiving her Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine she rushed back to the culture of Louisiana and her high school sweetheart, David who works for the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Jennifer and David married in November of 2001. They live in uptown New Orleans and share their lives with two very happy Border Collies. Dr. Foster's interests in veterinary medicine are broad and include Internal Medicine and Surgery, Dermatology, Ultrasound, and Orthopedic Surgery.
Outside of the hospital Dr. Foster likes to spend time jogging, attending concerts, working out, traveling and playing frisbee at the dog levee with her Border Collies Rhea and Sweet Emma.

Dr. Morgan L. Singletary

Dr. Singletary was born in New Orleans and raised in Mississippi. She attended Mississipi State University College of Veterinary Medicine, where she received her Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine in 2003. She has a very sweet black lab named Kibbie. Dr Singletary's interests include dermatology, internal medicine, surgery, and ultrasound. On her days off she enjoys backpacking, skiing, and playing frisbee with Kibbie.

Mrs. Mary Alice Shannon

Office Manager

Mary Alice Shannon joined the Causeway Animal Hospital family in January of 1995, after leaving the human side of medicine to work with animals. Her duties include managing all areas of the practice including the schedule for 8 veterinarians. She has always had a passion for animals since she was a child and she always had a family dog.
Mary Alice was born in Baton Rouge, but has been native to New Orleans since 1960. She has had the opportunity to live in several states and countries because her father was a dentist in the U.S. Army. She is a graduate of Riverdale High School and attended Phillips Junior College where she received her degree.
Mary Alice lives in Metairie with her husband of 27 years, Wayne and four children -Kelly, Robin, Timothy and Jamie. They have two dogs Brandy, a cute little mixed breed and Copper, a Catahoula lab mix. Her favorite past time is working in her yard with her husband and enjoying their plants.

Jacquelyn M. Zainey

Resource Manager

Jackie Zainey began working at Causeway Animal Hospital as a part-time receptionist 28 years ago and says she has stayed "because of the wonderful philosophy of the Doctors and staff to provide the very best of care for the animals". Besides working in Reception, Jackie has also worked as a kennel attendant, lab technician, surgery technician and presently as Resource Manager. Her duties include payroll, drug inventory, and maintaining several financial accounts for the Hospital.

Jackie received her degree in Speech Pathology and provided speech therapy in the public school system for a brief period before returning to her first love-animals.

Jackie shares her life with her husband of 34 years, Bob, 3 cats- Scoobie, Zippy, Studley (a little male that was stuck in a wall as a kitten-hence the name!), and a bird named Eddie. She shares her office with Maggie, our hospital mascot.

Melissa and Sean

Technician Managers

Melissa Grass grew up in Mississippi where she began working in the veterinary field eleven years ago. Having moved to the area to attend LSU, she began working at a clinic in Baton Rouge. She has been working at Causeway Animal Hospital for four years as a veterinary technician assisting doctors in examination rooms and in surgery. She is currently one of the technician supervisors.

Mrs. Glenda Seeling

Receptionist Manager

Glenda Seeling is a native of Choctaw County, Alabama. She married her wonderful husband in October of 1997 and moved to New Orleans, his home town. They now make their home in Kenner with their daughter cat "Lil Girl".
She started working at Causeway Animal Hospital in January of 1998. She can't imagine working anywhere else.
As reception manager, she tries to make every client's visit here as pleasant as possible and the wait to see the doctor as short as possible.
Since moving to Louisiana and working at Causeway Animal Hospital, she has met and made wonderful lasting relationships with clients and patients.

Mrs. Michelle Legrange

Grooming Manager

Michelle Lagrange Anselmo is a native of Kenner. She is married to Tony and lives in Jefferson Parish with four dogs and three horses. When growing up she had a great love for all animals. When she was small, her first animal was a German Shepard named Kelly. When she was 10 years old she got her first horse for Christmas. After shcool her days were spent taking care of her horse named Smokey. She realized it was a big responsibility taking care of a horse but she loved it any way. She also used to show Great Danes at dog shows. She was taught how to show them and also how to groom and take care of them. After having other job positions and knowing how much she enjoyed watching animals being groomed, she decided to become a groomer. She completed her grooming course in 1994 and has been grooming ever since.

Ms. Betty Barrosse

Kennel Manager

Betty Barrosse was born in Honduras; her ancestors left Louisiana in the late 1800's and then established in a Central American country a long tradition of farming and animal husbandry. Her home from infancy was a large farm with cattle, horses, poultry, dogs, cats, and some occasional stray undomesticated animals. White tail deer, rabbits, raccoons, and ant eaters were only a few of the species to be found in the tropical setting where she grew up. She became very close to farm animals and watching her father and older brother learned to love and care for them.
Betty attended the Pablo Menzel School and then graduated from the Evangelical Institute in San Pedro Sula, Honduras where she distinguished herself and was awarded her degree and certification in Primary Education. She taught primary school and ran an "English as a second language" laboratory for the Navy whe she lived in Honduras.
In 1982 she relocated to the United States and found her calling by involving herself in the veterinary profession. She quickly learned how to put to good use all she had learned while growing up.
Today she is very proud to be a member of the Causeway Animal Hospital family. Betty and her daughter Michelle live in their home in Kenner.

Jackie and Marie

Resource Management

Yarmilla

Yarmilla is in charge of keeping up with the asthetics of the building.

Mr. Charlie

Charlie handles any building maintenance needed at Causeway Animal Hospital. His tasks include fixing anything that might be broken and preventive maintenance to keep the building functioning, comfortable and safe for pets, clients, and staff.

Cherie, Sue, Natalie, Whitney, Melissa, Andrea, Sean, Fransisca

Surgery technicians

Arlene, Jennifer, Stacey, Whitney, Cherie, Fransisca

Dental technicians

All of these technicians are members of the American Society of Veterinary Dental Technicians. They have completed extensive training and testing in the field of veterinary dentistry covering all topics from routine home care, specific diseases of the mouth, and advanced dental procedures. They assist the doctors with many dental surgeries and treatments, including root canals.

Mrs. Jennifer Frickey

Dental Technician Manager

Jennifer is a native of the west bank in Jefferson Parish. She began her career at Causeway Animal Hospital eight years ago as a receptionist. She worked in the kennel for a while and found her true love to be technician work. It was during her years as a technician she discovered her talents and interest in veterinary dentistry. She has many tasks as dental technician manager. She cleans teeth, assists in root canals and many advanced dental procedures and assists with oral surgery. Jennifer is a member of the ASVDT (American Society of Veterinary Dental Technicians).

"Everday at Causeway Animal Hospital is different. It is never boring and that's why I love it so much."

Erica, Amy, Suzanne, Amy, and Heidi

Technicians

Ms. Stacey Montecino

Lab Technician

Stacey Montecino is a New Orleans native who has been working in the veterinary field for six years. She began working at Causeway Animal Hospital three and a half years ago as a kennel attendant then became a technicinan. She is currently in charge of our laboratory department. Stacey recently traveled to New Jersey to learn how to run and maintain our new lab equipment. For lab tests that cannot be run in-house, Stacey will contact various doctors and labs around the country to get the answers our patients need.

Amy Malone

ICU technician

Sandy, Kim, Mary Alice, Holly, Nicole, Amy

Receptionists

Mrs. Diana Benson

When you enter the doors of Causeway Animal Hospital Mrs. Diane Benson will greet you with a smile. She will see to it that you and your pet are comfortable, that your wait is a short one, and you get all the supplies you need. We want you to feel at home when you come to our hospital and Mrs. Benson is just the person to make you feel like a guest.

Mary Ann, Bridget, Jessica, Stephanie, Cliff, Dawn, Melissa, Matthew and Kelly

Kennel Staff

Causeway Animal Hospital has a special cat area of our kennel. This is a seperate facility away from the dogs. Cages are sizes that are specialized for cats and each cat has a view of plants and pictures on the wall. Each cat has exercise time on their own that is supervised by a staff member in the cat boarding facility. We can specialize your cat's care, just let us know what he requests. There are plenty of blankets, toys, boxes to hide in and treats.

Lisa, Kathy, Mary Ann, Laura, Michelle

Grooming Staff

Causeway Animal Hospital has four professional groomers. We specialize in many breeds and do hand scissor work. We can accomodate your pet in any way with extended drop off and pick up hours. Your pet can also spend the night if your schedule does not allow for same day pick up. We have many different fragrances to choose from and all pets are bathed in the Hydro-surge, which is a bubble bath for pets. We offer several different safe types of flea control. All products our professional grooming department uses are for sale for you to use at home.