Logan
Logan is yet another member of the Elgin Veterinary Hospital Team who is trained to be able to do it all. He has years of management under his belt, so he is vital to ensuring a smooth work flow at the hospital. He also helps to put the Elgin Veterinary Hospital Team’s thoughts and ideas into actions and policies, and then continue to implement these thoughts and ideas. We strive to offer the highest quality medicine to all of our patients and ensure that their owners have the best possible experience with us.
Our EVH Family feeling at home while with us is crucial to us and things in the world are always changing, so he helps to incorporate the changing times and feedback from everyone to continue to try to reach that goal. His love for animals started at a very young age growing up in the northern countryside of Wisconsin. For as long as Logan can remember, he was always surrounded by animals and a wide variety of them - cats, dogs, livestock, horses. You name it, he had it and was ecstatic to always have animals in his life! Logan’s first experience with Elgin Veterinary Hospital was as a client. He says that “since he and his husband first walked through the doors for their initial appointment at EVH, they have only ever been greeted with affection, acceptance and embraced with kindness!” He goes on to say that “Our babies are always treated with such care and leave happy after every visit.”
His fur baby family consists of Chappy, a miniature pincher/chihuahua mix, Kala, a chihuahua, and Domino, a Feist. He would have a million pets and variety of species as possible if he still lived in the countryside, but enjoys being part of our clients and patients lives because he views them as his own! We must have done something right because he agreed to not only continue as part of the Elgin Veterinary Hospital Family, but also the EVH Team! He stated that “because of our extraordinary treatment, when offered the opportunity to join Elgin Veterinary Hospital I was beyond excited and grateful to join such an amazing work environment!"
Molly
Molly’s life has focused mainly on her two true loves for over a decade now – working in the veterinary medicine world and being a wonderful mother! It is amazing how time flies because it seems like just yesterday that I met the compassionate, caring person that is Molly! She had grown up around animals her entire life and is an amazing horseback rider, but as much as she enjoys her hobby that involves large animals, she really found her calling to be more about focusing on the small animals and exotic animals that we take care of at Elgin Veterinary Hospital. She has been in the animal industry for over 20 years now and we have been blessed to have her with us since 2016! She has worked at several different veterinary clinics, as well as worked in the grooming and non-veterinarian kennel, since she started in this amazing field of veterinary medicine. While all aspects of veterinary medicine allow her heart to be put to great use with all the compassion and love she has for animals, she found something different when she found Elgin Veterinary Hospital. She found a completely different atmosphere, where we strive to provide the best quality medicine in an environment “where you always feel at home”.
Molly has several reasons that she has wanted to stay at Elgin Veterinary Hospital, but the main one is that we spend a great deal more time, one on one, with our clients and patients. She loves that every person or pet that walks through our doors becomes a part of something bigger – a part of our family that we love and treat as if they were our own. From every staff member on our team, to every furry to feathered to scaly pet, everyone has a special place. She also really enjoys seeing all the exotic animals that we treat because it allows her to continue to grow and learn. That also is one of the reasons why she loves working with me – I like to teach, be it owners or my staff or the general public. I miss teaching classes, but there just are not enough hours in the day! Though I get the channel my teaching bug each and every day by sharing new knowledge about the constantly changing field of medicine. I strongly believe that it is much more effective for people to learn and understand the “why” behind what is being asked of them or recommended. In all of our training I explain that the method of learning a skill is best when “watch one, do one, teach one” is applied. This is also extremely important with exotic animal medicine and surgery since it is absolutely the most rapidly changing medicine out there. As part of the veterinary community, we learn new things all the time, but with exotics things can change day to day from husbandry to advancements in medicine and surgery. That is also why Elgin Veterinary Medicine works with multiple schools, from veterinary schools to pharmacy schools to medical schools, to share knowledge. We also participate in clinical trials to help on a global level to advance our ability to provide the highest quality of medicine, but also ensure it is quality of life that we pay the most attention to. Do not worry, our involvement is only after the majority of the testing has been done so any clinical trial we are involved in has already been proven to be completely safe. It is just our chance to give back to a field we love so much with real owner feed-back and it often can allow us to offer care to animals that may otherwise not be able to afford it. There is nothing better than offering the highest level of cutting-edge medicine that also has the benefit of owners receiving free care or routine lab work or monetary clinic credit to be used in the future. When it comes to learning, Molly feels like this is the clinic to work with in continuing to her own education and the education of pet owners.
In her spare time, she is a die-hard Gamecock fan and attends as many events as possible. Her son Logan is also quite the athlete, along with his many talents, so she is a full-time baseball and golf mom. I think that being a mom in and of itself is a full-time job, so I have no idea how she gets it all done! She manages though and makes sure that he is a very well-rounded child who knows he has the love and support of his mom. She also has two bichons – Zeus, who is 2 years old, and Maximus, who is seven months old. She definitely has her hands full, but she takes it all in stride with a smile on her face!
Cynamin
An absolutely amazing member of the Elgin Veterinary Hospital Team is Cynamin and she can do it all! Originally from Texas she moved to South Carolina to attend the University of South Carolina. She toured many colleges to see what her options were, but USC felt different – she said that while touring it, it immediately felt like home. She proudly graduated with a B.S. in Marine Biology with a concentration of biological oceanography in 2022. She has had a love for animals since she was a child, but people told her she cared too much and would not be able handle seeing sick animals. Lucky for us, she listened to her heart and finds that is part of her love of being involved in veterinary medicine. She loves that we are able to help animals that are unable to help themselves and enjoys the challenges of the ever-evolving medical world. One of things that makes her so special is her compassion for not only the animals, but their owners’ as well. As she puts it “it is the most heartwarming feeling seeing a sick animal find their happiness again and being able to bless the owners’ with that gift and witness the pure joy of seeing an owner reunited with their pet after being ill”. Many people think that people are drawn to veterinary medicine over human medicine because they do not want to work with people, but that could not be further from the truth in our line of work. Every animal has a person or people who love them very much and so she truly embodies our motto of “where you will always feel at home”. She wants to connect with the people as much as the pets and give the gift of care while partnering with everyone who loves an animal to provide the best quality care possible. She loves that we are a family and that we all welcome every patient and the humans attached to that pet to our Elgin Veterinary Family.
She definitely did her research before deciding on who she wanted her first mentor to be and at what facility – I can speak for the entire Elgin Veterinary Hospital Team that we feels every bit as lucky as she does that, she chose us and is part of our family. She loves working at Elgin Veterinary Hospital so much she immediately told her parents that working with us does not even feel like a job, but more of a second home where she has been welcomed by both the staff and our amazing Elgin Veterinary Hospital Family with kindness and love. She looks forward to continuing to build relationships every day with each new person and pet that she has the pleasure of meeting and serving.
Outside of work she has a deep love of the ocean and loves spending time at the beach and scuba diving. She currently has her Advanced Open Water certification, but hopes to move up to Master Scuba Diver with an Underwater Photography Specialty. Her love of photography is also deeply shared with another teammate, Robyn. When she cannot get to the beach she enjoys playing video games, especially League of Legends, and reading, with her all-time favorite book series being the Hunger Games. Of course, she spends as much time as possible with her cat Mango, who she adopted her sophomore year of college and loves with all of her heart. She may love Mango with all of her heart, but she still has plenty of room for all of the pets and people who come to Elgin Veterinary Hospital. She is wonderful to work with, brilliant, and a real self-motivated go-getter! We are so happy to have her and know you everyone will love her just as much as we do.
Robyn
Robyn is a wonderful part of our Elgin Veterinary Hospital Team and she wears her heart on her sleeve and exudes warmth. Her love and dedication to helping animals started at a very young aga and has only become stronger with time. She has a special connection to all types of animals and they bring her a happiness that is unlike any other feeling she has. This passion has led her to adopt many animals over her life and she currently has a range of pets that she has opened her home to. She has 14 cats, 4 dogs and a rabbit! As if that is not enough, he husband and her are affiliated with the Greenville Wildlife Rescue. They help with wildlife rehabilitation, especially working with rehabilitation of squirrels and getting them ready to release back into the wild.
Not only is her home filled with adopted pets, her vocation revolves around loving and healing animals, she is also a great wife and mother. She is a busy mother of five children and they range in age from two years old to twenty years old. I know, it sounds like she is superwoman! If all of that is not enough she owns Feathers and Freckles Photography and one day would love to venture into wildlife photography.
Robyn loves working at Elgin Veterinary Hospital because it allows her to be a part of helping provide the best health care, healing and quality of lives of the animals and their families in her community. She grew up and lives in Elgin, graduated from Lugoff Elgin High School and attended ATEC in Camden. I was lucky to meet Robyn years ago and I immediately loved her. She is the type of person anyone would be lucy to have in their lives and we are lucky to have her working with her at Elgin Veterinary Hospital. She is similar to me, in that we prefer a very small group of friends who you can really trust and count on, to large crowds and acquaintances. This trait equals strong relationships, like we foster at Elgin Veterinary Hospital, where we do not just look at our clients as clients. We look at all of the people and pets who walk through our door as family and really want to partner with you to provide the best possible care in an atmosphere “where you will always feel at home”.
For as long as Robyn and I have known each other, I have enjoyed working with her and her photography company and she “always knew that working for me would be amazing”. Where joining a new company can feel intimidating, she found joining our team was easy and she felt like she belonged from the first day that she started. She loves the energy and flow of our family and adores her job and all the wonderful pets who come through our doors. She is all about welcoming each pet into our family and treating them as if she is part of their family. Having someone who understands and embraces the very motto of our clinic is so hard to find and I am blessed to have Robyn on our team!