Diane Jurgens, RVT, CCRVN

Diane has always had a love for the environment and animals. While not allowed to have many pets of her own growing up, in high school in Pennsylvania she volunteered at a nature center where she helped care for all sorts of critters - turtles, snakes, hamsters, mice, rats, ferrets, chinchillas, rabbits, raccoons, a goose and a turkey!

After high school, she attended Bucknell University and graduated with a major in environmental geology and minor in math.

While looking for graduate schools, she did some soul searching and realized animals were her real passion. While doing homework, she used to watch Emergency Vets on Animal Planet and heard about a school called Bel-Rea Institute in Denver, which catered to Veterinary Technicians and knew that was her true path.

She graduated Bel-Rea in December 1999 and got her certification in January 2000. She has mostly worked in general practice, but has also worked in specialty hospitals with internal medicine and canine rehabilitation. She has a special interest in training/behavior using positive reinforcement. She is not only certified in Low Stress Handling, but also Fear Free Elite certified. Her favorite areas of practice are dentistry and surgery.

In her free time, she loves to ski/snowboard, hike, and paddleboard.  She and her dogs do a fun sport called flyball. You may have seen them at halftime shows for the Denver Nuggets and Colorado Mammoth!