Our Doctors

Dr. Andy Burnett

Dr. Ron Sandoval

Dr. Anne Dayton

Dr. Bob Baker

Dr. John Crumley

Dr. Jackie Pulver

Dr. Tony Luchetti

Dr. Laura Leautier

Dr. Renee Bufkin

Dr. Kim Luikart

Dr. Ben Davidson

Andy Burnett DVM

                Dr. Andy Burnett was born in Seattle, Washington on September 28, 1941.  He spent most of his childhood years in California where his interest in animals began.  Much of his time was spent on his Grandfather’s ranch in Central California.  His uncle was a well-known horse trainer at the time, and young Andy loved to follow him around the ranch.  His fascination with the visiting veterinarian and the treatments he performed on their animals made a lasting impression on him.
                 His family moved to Reno in 1957, and Dr. Burnett graduated from Reno High School in 1959.  He then attended Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo, California on a football scholarship.  Injuries to his knee forced him to leave football and Cal Poly and return home to Reno.  After attending the University of Nevada in Reno, he attended Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado.  He received his degree in veterinary medicine in 1967.
                Dr. Burnett met his wife, Judy (Quanchi) at UNR, and they were married in 1965.  Judy was born in Reno, lived in Sparks and graduated from Sparks High School in 1960.  She graduated from UNR in 1964 with a degree in elementary education.  They have two sons, A.G. and Scott.  A.G. is now a Deputy Attorney General in gaming for the State of Nevada.  He is married to the former Anna Nichols of Sparks, and they have one son, Cobi and a daughter, Emily.  Scott is a Physician Assistant with special interest in  vascular surgery. Scott and his wife Melissa have a son and live in Boise, Idaho. Dr. Burnett spent many years involved in Sparks’ youth activities and has served as a director and past president of Sparks Babe Ruth.  He was one of the original organizers of the Sparks YMCA having served as director of both the Sparks YMCA and the Reno YMCA.
                Upon their return to Sparks in 1967, Dr. Burnett became associated with Dr. Gerry Meyer.  Together they owned and operated a small animal hospital on Rock Blvd.  They later developed Sun Valley Animal Hospital and acquired Sierra View Animal Hospital on South Virginia Street in Reno.  In December of 1980, Dr. Burnett left his association with Dr. Meyer and founded Baring Blvd. Veterinary Hospital.  His single doctor practice has now grown into a full-service, multi-doctor veterinary hospital able to offer unique specialty care to pets and their owners.
                In 1993 Dr. Burnett and Dr. Ronald Sandoval owned and operated the Petsmart Veterinary Clinics in Reno and Las Vegas. In November of 1998, Petsmart Inc. acquired Drs. Burnett and Sandoval’s interest in the Petsmart clinics. 
                Baring Blvd. Veterinary was recognized in 1997 by Veterinary Economics Magazine as a “Practice of Excellence”.  This national award is given once a month to one veterinary hospital in the United States.  The award acknowledges and recognizes those hospitals in the country that offer exceptional patient and client care.
                Dr. Burnett has been very involved in community affairs and organized veterinary medicine.  He was president of the Nevada State Veterinary Association, a member of the Nevada State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners for ten years and served as president.  He is now a member of the American Veterinary Medical Association, the Veterinary Hospital Managers Association and the American Animal Hospital Association.  The American Animal Hospital Association has chosen Dr. Burnett to serve on their “Council of 100,” a group of veterinarians from different parts of the United States chosen to serve as advisors on national veterinary issues. He currently serves as Nevada’s representative on the Management Committee of the Wild West Veterinary Conference held in Reno each year. This conference is attended by 2000 veterinarians and veterinary technicians.
                Dr. Burnett is a former member of Sparks Sertoma Club and a past director of the Sparks Chamber of Commerce.  He is a past president and director of the Nevada Wildlife Federation, the Nevada Organization for Wildlife and served as the wildlife representative for the Susanville District of the Bureau of Land Management.  Dr. Burnett was one of the organizing members of the German Shorthaired Pointer Club of Reno and served as president.  His special interests have been in the care of the canine athlete concentrating on orthopedics, reproduction and nutrition.
                 Dr. Burnett is “semi-retired” and no longer sees patients but continues to be a managing partner at BBVH. When Dr. Burnett is not at BBVH, he can be found at the gym working out, exercising his Pointers in the hills above Sparks, cycling, off chukar hunting or fly-fishing, or just enjoying time spent with his family.
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Ron Sandoval DVM

   Dr. Sandoval was born in El Paso, Texas, but moved to the Truckee Meadows in 1971. After attending Bishop Manogue High School he went on to the University of Nevada, Reno.  In 1981 his son Dillon was born. Dillon was an honors graduate from Long Beach State University, college of engineering. He is now a Mechanical Engineer at Honeywell. Dr. Sandoval graduated from UNR with  honors in 1982, with a BS in Biology, BS in Veterinary Medicine and a minor in Economics.
    Dr. Sandoval received his doctorate of Veterinary Medicine from The Ohio State University. His daughter Kelly was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1985. She is now a English major at Western Michigan University with an eye towards teaching. At veterinary school Dr. Sandoval concentrated on small animal surgery and reproductive physiology. In the summer following his junior year he did an externship in small and large animal medicine at Carson Valley Veterinary Hospital in Minden. After graduation he began working there as a full time veterinarian.
    After seven years of mixed practice, Dr. Sandoval left Minden and joined the Baring Boulevard Veterinary Hospital. While in Minden, He met his wife Dottie and her son Chris (Reed class of 2002).  Chris is a student at University of Nevada and an entrepreneur. Dottie and Ron married in 1989 and have two children, Tori (born 1995) and Ryan (born 1997). Family picture
    In 1994, Dr. Sandoval and Dr. Burnett started the PetSmart Veterinary Hospitals in Nevada. They opened six hospitals in five years, and finally sold them in November, 1998. His main focus was hospital management and small animal surgery. After a brief stint helping out the PetSmart corporation as a regional veterinary medical director, Dr. Sandoval returned to BBVH as a partner.
Dr. Sandoval's leisure time is spent with his family, playing a little tennis, road cycling, and working in the backyard.  The kids are active in football, basketball, baseball, tennis, swimming. His hobby is tube based audio system. Any tube guys out there? Dr. Sandoval is the baringvet.net webmaster, so if you have any suggestions, questions, etc. regarding this web site please let him know. Dr. Sandoval is the managing partner at BBVH.
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    Dr. Anne Dayton was born in Reno at Saint Mary's hospital. Anne knew she wanted to be a veterinarian from the age of five. She attended Reed High school, where she was valedictorian of Reed's first  four year senior class. 
    Anne attended the University of Nevada, Reno, and earned a B.S. in Biology. During her years at UNR, she worked summers at Baring Boulevard Veterinary Hospital. She attended The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine where she graduated first in her class in 1986 and accumulated several special awards.
    Dr. Dayton did an externship at the prestigious Animal Medical Center in New York City, then was selected for a one year internship at the West Los Angeles Veterinary Medical Group, a large specialty practice with over twenty veterinarians.
    Anne moved back to the Reno-Sparks area in 1987, joining the Baring Boulevard Veterinary Hospital. She has served as  president of the Western Nevada Veterinary Medicine Association in 1993 and 1994.
    Anne reduced her schedule to part time in October, 1993, when her son Connor was born. She added son Jared in April 1999. The boys keep very her busy. She is a volunteer at Connor's school, enjoys gardening, skiing, and snowboarding in her "spare" time. She currently has two cats at home, Sophie (the beast cat) and SuYin. Dr. Dayton is a partner at BBVH.
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Dr. Bob Baker is director of medical services.  Bob grew up in southern Nevada and graduated from Valley High School in Las Vegas.  He received his BS in Animal Biology from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 1983 and graduated with his DVM  from Colorado State University in 1987.  After a year of general practice and two years of emergency medicine practice, he joined the faculty at Colorado State University for four years while doing postdoctoral graduate work in critical care and emergency medicine.  Bob moved back to Nevada and began practicing at Baring Blvd. Veterinary Hospital in 1993.  He is also on staff and works as an attending clinician at the Animal Emergency Center in Reno.  Bob’s special interests include ultrasound diagnostics, cancer medicine, internal medicine, laparoscopic surgery, endoscopy, emergency and critical care medicine.
    Bob’s critter collection includes his dog Ty, a 1997 era mutt of all mutts and Lily a 2007 model German Shorthair Pointer/Hound dog cross.   Baxter the diabetic cat also shares the home.   When Bob is off work, he enjoys spending time with the love of his life, Jennifer, and with his daughter, Dallas. He also has fun speeding across Nevada and California in his Z-28, working on the house and property, rock hounding and metal detecting the Nevada desert, hanging out with his friends, target shooting, hiking, listening to music, playing video games, and kayaking. Jennifer and Bob are the proud parents of their son Lester Robert Baker born in March 2005 and daughter Alayna Grace Baker born in June 2007.

       Dr. Laura Leautier was raised in Milton, West Virginia, just east of Huntington.  She left her large family and small town for Ohio State University, graduating with a B.S. in Zoology in 1987, and her D.V.M in 1991.  After practicing in Greensboro, North Carolina for a year and a half, she and her long-distance boyfriend decided to try things in his town, Reno.  She joined Baring Vet Hospital in 1993.  As for the romance, it all worked out, and Pierre and Laura have been married since 1994.  Son Wyatt arrived in 1998, and daughter Cooper in 2000.  
        She enjoys general medicine and surgery, with a special interest in reproductive medicine.  Part-time work (Thursdays/Fridays/every other Saturday) has been fulfilling, as it allows her time to be very involved in her children’s lives, yet still continue practicing and learning in the veterinary field.  She also is a technical editor for Veterinary Medicine, a monthly veterinary journal.
        Her critters include (in order of appearance) cat Oliver (who survived the U-Haul trip from North Carolina to arrive in the blizzards of December 1992), Reno native Annie (cat), and our beloved Remy (“Remster”), our sweet specimen of a black lab, complete with congenital cataracts and hip dysplasia.  In her down time, she enjoys remote camping and fishing, and the occasional (very occasional now that she has Wyatt and Cooper) good book.

Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, Dr. Crumley worked in several veterinary clinics during the summer months before moving away to St. Petersburg, Florida for college. He attended the marine science school, Eckerd College, majoring in Biology and Chemistry. During college he worked as teaching assistant in the vertebrate biology program and volunteered at the Mote Marine Mammal Wildlife Rehabilitation Center and Manatee Necropsy Center. After graduating with honors, he moved to Davis, California to attend veterinary school.
            During veterinary school, he worked in a parasitology laboratory, headed a design team to create a computer model to teach veterinary anatomy classes, and worked as an extern at the Los Angeles Zoo. He spent most of his weekends and holidays guiding rock climbing trips in the Lake Tahoe and Yosemite areas. After graduation, he traveled to Bend, OR and became an associate veterinarian at the High Desert Veterinary Hospital. There he provided care for dogs, cats, horses, llamas…you name it.
            Dr. Crumley joined our staff in January of 2002. He lives in Reno with his cat, Ki (a.k.a. “the little monster”). If you don’t see him at the hospital, look for him rock climbing in Yosemite, mountain biking near Lake Tahoe, snowboarding at Mt. Rose, or fly fishing in southern California.
            John's special interests include ultrasound diagnostics, cancer medicine, internal medicine, laparoscopic surgery, and endoscopy. Dr. Crumley recently became a partner at BBVH.

I was born in the small town of Shelbyville, TN where I grew up on a cattle farm. I had my first experience in veterinary medicine at a young age by being placed in charge of care of orphan calves and the horses on the farm (also the multiple barn cats and family dog!)  I graduated from Judson College in Marion Alabama with a degree in chemistry. I then returned to my home state to attend vet school at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. During my summers at school, I did externships at several veterinary hospitals in Tennessee and Alabama.  During my winter breaks, my husband Eric and I often traveled to Reno/Tahoe area to downhill ski. My husband and I decided to move to Reno after we completed our schooling. Eric joined the law firm of Ronald J. Logar and has enjoyed practicing family law.  I practiced equine and camelid medicine in the Reno/Carson area for three years.
    I joined Baring Blvd in Oct. 2003 and have enjoyed practicing medicine and surgery on the smaller animals in the area since. During my off time, my husband and I enjoy hiking, biking, skiing, and spending time with all of our animals. We transplanted 2 horses (Imp and Looker) and 2 cats (Siren and Vesper) from TN. We acquired another child, Chloe, from a dog rescue unit in Reno shortly after we moved to Reno.
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Tony Luchetti DVM

Dr. Tony Luchetti was born at Saint Mary's hospital and is a fourth generation northern Nevadan. After graduating from Bishop Manogue High School, he did his undergraduate work at the University of Nevada. He earned his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Colorado State University in 2000. Dr. Luchetti practiced  in a mixed animal practice veterinary hospital for five years before joining BBVH.
Tony is married to a fellow native Nevadan, Jennifer and they have a new son, Gino. The family also has a mutt named Sadie and a German Shorthair named Winnie. He enjoys chukkar hinting, camping, and water skiing in his spare time. Currently he has little of that . Tony is very busy building his own home.

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Renee Bufkin DVM