Rusty Maher, DVM

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Dr. Rusty Maher, DVM

This guy has been here for 40 years, and he’s not going anywhere!

Trivia

  • • From New Orleans, a Jesuit High School graduate, Dr. Rusty once hunted a huge mouse from inside the school’s basement.
  • • Dr. Rusty is a two-time Golden Glove Boxer and still boxes for fun and fitness to this day.
  • • Dr. Rusty was known for having a menagerie of animals as a kid, and eventually went to vet School at LSU, graduating in 1981.
  • • He opened Maher Animal Hospital in 1982, and used to live at the clinic when he first opened it! If a boarding dog was barking, he often let them sleep with him in his makeshift office!
  • • Dr. Rusty has always been an empathetic and compassionate person and vet. He never turns away a sick or injured animal, and is still known to take a sick pet home with him.
  • • Dr. Rusty inspired not only his daughter to go into veterinary medicine, but also his two nephews, Dr. David and Dr. Brendan Batt, of Batt Veterinary Services in New Orleans.
  • • He and his wife Diana have two children (Katie and Kyle, a charter fisherman), and two granddaughters, Leah and Annie. They have him wrapped around their tiny fingers.