Cannon Vet Services is a well established Equine / Small Animal practice serving Cannon Falls and the surrounding communities. Tom Winter DVM and staff practice the highest quality medicine while serving clientele with honesty and compassion. Our goal is to provide excellent service, progressive patient care and comprehensive client education.

The lifeblood of every practice is the veterinarian and his motivated support team. Each member brings their expertise and excitement to all areas of animal health care, client communication, and practice management. This allows Dr. Winter to focus on and to utilize his extensive experience while providing the best medical care for our clients and their pets. 

Our Veterinarian
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Tom Winter, DVM is a dedicated veterinarian who believes in preventative health care for equine and small animals. Most of his time is spent administering core vaccinations, tube de-worming, dental care, fertility exams, prepurchase exams, lameness evaluations, and small animal surgeries. He utilizes the CVS in house lab, the x-ray machine and digital ultrasound machine to obtain immediate results for diagnostic workups. He takes pride is utilizing his surgical skills during routine surgeries as well as emergency wound repairs. As a single practitioner, he is on call 24 hours per day. When spare time allows, he enjoys riding his reining horses and training his young horses. Sundays are reserved for trail riding with friends and spending time with family and grandchildren.

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Our Staff
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Linda is actively involved in managing and coordinating the business end of the practice. Solving animal behavior issues has always been her passion and educational journey. She enjoys teaching private and group obedience classes (with an emphasis on positive reinforcement). With her extensive experience and intense knowledge, she is able to share the most effective way to solve behavior issues so clients can live comfortably with their canine companions. She listens to each owner, as they explain their dog’s behavior issues, evaluates their situation, and designs a customized training plan to modify his/her behavior. Linda’s goal is to help them understand each other and to improve their communication skills as they build the “human animal bond”. With her equine / pet massage certification, she is able to provide mental and physical comfort as well. When she is not working, she is training her mini Aussies, or trail riding her designer buckskin mare “Sere”. Weekends are reserved for trail riding with friends and spending time with family and grand children.

Jenna graduated from Argosy University and is now a full time veterinary technician. As a valued team member, she assists Dr. Winter in routine surgical procedures, provides compassionate patient care, performs lab work and schedules appointments to ensure that our client’s needs are cared for. Her creative talent is utilized in marketing and practice management projects. Jenna is a newlywed and recently moved to Randolph with her husband Jon. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her animal family, which includes her Smooth Fox Terrier, “Tucker” and her three horses “Crimson”, “Colby” and “Frieske”. Training horses and competing in Dressage is her lifelong passion.

Kayla is a part time employee at CVS. She assists Dr. Winter with patients, schedules appointments and occasionally cleans the barn. She is currently enrolled as a full time student, in the veterinary technician program, at the Minnesota School of Business in Rochester. In her free time, she enjoys riding her Rocky Mountain horse, “Stanton”, playing with her shitzu, “April” and spending time at her cabin with family and friends.

	Kate works full time at Summit Orthopedics in Woodbury and two Saturdays a month at CVS scheduling appointments and assisting Dr. Winter with patients. She is also involved with scheduling and assisting Linda with the obedience classes. Kate and her husband Steve, live in Hastings with their foster son Alex and their animal family which includes two dogs “Rio” and “Reina” and three cats.

	Allie is a part time volunteer at our clinic who is interested in becoming a veterinarian. She assists Dr. Winter and staff with our patient’s needs as well as scheduling appointments. She is a student at Cannon Falls High School, where she is actively involved in their varsity tennis league. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her Springer Spaniel, “Malibu” and her cat, “Dusty”.

Rebecca works part time at CVS. She maintains the barn and indoor arena, which is an extension of the clinic. She works behind the scenes ensuring that our equine patient’s stalls are properly cleaned, and that the horses are fed and watered.