Dr. Mintzer is the owner of Mid Hudson Animal Hospital and a partner at Arlington Animal Hospital and A Cat's Place Feline Health Center. He is also a computer programmer, all of the programs used at the hospitals are products of his programming and he is also the webmaster of this site.   

                 Dr. Mintzer has been interested in biology and medicine since he was a young child. He knew little about pets though because he grew up in a house with his grandmother who could not allow pets because of her asthma. When he was 20 he moved into his own apartment in Brooklyn. Driving a taxicab in New York City at night was a quick though dangerous way to make money to pay his way through college.  His friends suggested he get a job with a veterinarian so when he graduated college he'd know enough about animals to take care of them on the commune (it was the late '60's at this time) they were planning to start in the Catskill Mountains.

                   The first day he worked for the vet (Dr. Robert Groskin in Brooklyn, NY) he helped perform a cesarean section on a Golden Retriever. He was hooked. A year later, having graduated college, adopted a cat and 2 dogs and he was off to vet school. After graduating  vet school (first in his class) and working in Princeton, NJ and then in Brooklyn, NY he moved with his wife Susan and young children, Jennifer and Daniel to the Hudson valley. He soon opened his own practice, Mid Hudson Animal Hospital. The practiced grew and flourished and he soon found a great partner, Dr. Marie Quattro, with whom he opened the Arlington Animal Hospital. Finally 15 years later he opened A Cat's Place Veterinary Hospital with another terrific partner, Dr. Andrea Guazzo.

                  Dr. Mintzer's pride and joy are his children Daniel and Jennifer. Although they did not follow him into the profession of veterinary medicine they are both happily following their own paths in life. Jennifer is a working singer/actress who "supplements" her income by working at Goldman Sachs in NYC. One of her favorite rolls was as 'Luisa' in the Fantastics. You can see some pictures from the play here.  Daniel is a drummer in an up and coming rock band called "Moonraker". You can see where the band will be performing and hear a sample of their music by clicking here.

                  These days Dr. Mintzer still spends quite a bit of time working at Mid Hudson Animal Hospital and helping manage the other two hospitals. In his spare time he's an active outdoorsman who can often be found hiking the local parks like Mills and Vanderbilt, the Catskills and Adirondaks, or taking some time off to backpack in the American West. On warm days you might also see him canoeing or kayaking in the Hudson. When the weather turns cold he's either skiing, or snowshoeing somewhere in the woods. While he does this he always has his camera with him. He's been an avid photographer since he was 10 years old and with the advent of digital photography is happily back to making images again. Like one of his influences, Ansel Adams, he agrees that pictures are not taken, they're made. He spend hours in front of the computer getting each of his images just right.  If you've been in the office over the past few years you've seen some of his photography hanging on the walls. If you haven't noticed the photos or want to see some more samples of his photography, click on this link.