Dr. Wendy Knight

For as long as Dr. Knight can remember, she has wanted to be a veterinarian.  Her love for animals started the moment her parents came home with their first dog, Tinker, and continued through the years as they cared for  a vast array of pets from dogs and cats to baby ducks.   
After graduating from high school, Dr. Knight attended the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she received an undergraduate degree in Biology.  She spent the summers in Greensboro working as a veterinary assistant and riding horses.  A native of Tennessee and die-hard Vols football fan, Dr. Knight went back home where she attended the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine. 

Meg Hamilton, VMD

Dr. Hamilton was raised in Philadelphia, Pa. and graduated from Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia. She moved to Washington, D.C. after graduation where she worked for the US Department of Justice as a paralegal for 6 years before vet school.

Dr. Hamilton has always loved animals. She grew up with a house full of animals, had her own neighborhood pet-sitting service, and volunteered for various animal shelters over the years. Although she enjoyed her work for the government after college, she decided that Veterinary Medicine was the career she wished to pursue so she moved back to Philadelphia and graduated from Veterinary School at the University of Pennsylvania in 2007. Dr. Hamilton practiced in Stroudsburg, Pa for 2 years before joining CityPaws in July 2009. She is excited to be back in DC and looks forward to getting to know the clients and pets who visit CityPaws.

In her free time, she enjoys traveling, running, anything beach or water related and spending time with friends and family. Dr. Hamilton’s current furry crew includes an elderly Ridgeback mix named Chance, a one eyed gray cat named Sailor and a sweet tabby named Mommies.

Dan Teich, DVM

Originally hails from the Garden State and attended Rutgers University, Cook College, for his degree in animal sciences. He then obtained his DVM from The Ohio State University in 2003. Dr. Teich completed six months of an internship in small animal medicine and surgery then dabbled in politics helping to advance the legislative agenda of the American Veterinary Medical Association, followed by working as a research consultant for the Association of the American Veterinary Medical Colleges. He returned to clinical medicine and has been practicing in the District ever since. Dr. Teich also served as the Medical Director of the National Capital Area Spay & Neuter Center where he performed in the area of 10,000 surgeries. He joined CityPaws in 2007 and has never left.   Dr. Teich usually introduces himself as “Dan” to the patient first and tries to ensure the pet that he or she will have a good time (or at least for a few minutes). His exam room does not appear to be a normal doctor visit – he usually wears a baseball hat backwards and sits on the floor. He has been spotted in a labcoat on rare occasions.   He lives on Capitol Hill with his sidekick, Brian, a mostly Golden Retriever. Brian usually goes everywhere with Dr. Teich and can frequently be seen in the clinic. His two catfish, which are ancient and only 2 inches in length, live in a 90 gallon fishtank. His hobbies include rock hunting, escaping, his Ducati motorcycle and the outdoors.

Kate Rondelli – Hospital Manager

Kate joined the CityPaws team in April 2009. She is originally from Herkimer New York, a small town in upstate. Kate grew up on a dairy farm, which is where her love of animals formed. She moved to Washington DC in 2001(moved to Wilmington, NC for part of 2008 then returned back to DC), prior to that she lived in San Diego, CA and Atlanta, GA where she worked in a variety of business settings; an executive assistant for the President of a large insurance company, managed an international software company and help organize and run a non profit educational program. All these roles where challenging, but never fulfilling. In 2003, she was given the opportunity to work in the veterinary setting, it was a perfect fit. She is happy to call this her career. Kate and her husband Paul welcomed a new addition to their family in January 2009: our beautiful daughter Piper. She also shares her home in NW DC with a fun loving chocolate lab/beagle mix Freya and an orange tabby cat Yamar. She enjoys spending time with family, watching Red Sox baseball and going to see live music during time away from work.