Dr. Jeff Toman
He has 2 daughters, Kileigh and Haley. He has been here in Beaumont for over 20 years and is the owner of West End Animal Clinic. He graduated from Louisiana State University and Attends Westgate Memorial Baptist Church. He spends a great deal of time with all our clients and greets everyone with a big smile. He believes in preventative medicine, early detection, yearly exams and lots of TLC from the owners will allow the pets of southeast Texas to live long and fruitful lives
Christy Huntzberry - LVT
Office Manager/Licensed Veterinary Technician
Our Office Manager Extraordinaire has been at our clinic the longest, having joined Dr. Toman in February of 2013. She wears many hats around here, not the least of which is keeping us all in line! Christy got interested in the vet med industry because she likes animals more than people and decided to make them her career. She has an AAS in Veterinary Medicine and a BA in Animal Science and a degree in Business Management (whew!). She loves helping our furbabies get better and be able to go home, plus working with our great staff. Outside of her work life, Christy has an exotic animal rescue, and a lot of her own animals were surrendered by previous owners and would be considered by others to be damaged. She loves caring for and showing love to those that were left alone for whatever reason.
Christy has 4 grown children and 5 grandbabies, and her wonderful supportive husband, Pete, is waiting for her at home when she leaves behind the chaos of the clinic. She enjoys doing vinyl and sublimation, her animals, and traveling.
Pets: 3 blue & golds, 2 cockatoos, 2 ring-tail lemurs, 1 African grey, a coatimundi, 3 chickens, 1 dog, and 2 cats
Fun fact: a tortoise lives on the land; a turtle lives in the water.
Jacque
Receptionist
Jacque joined the WEAC staff in July 2021 because she is an introverted homebody whose husband thought she needed to get out of the house and talk to people. She loves her job because she is a stickler for details and loves your pets and doing her part to help keep them healthy and happy. Jacque has been married to her sweet hubby, Jody, for 25 years and has 2 beautiful, talented, accomplished daughters, Mo and Gracie, and a brand new grandbaby, Emery. In her free time, she loves spending time with her family, reading books, watching movies, and riding her horses.
Pets: Dogs Max, Rosie Mae, Dany, Piper, Auggie, Mylee; Cats Norman, Trixie, (shared custody of Stan with Mandi); Horses Ringo and Jayne; Zebra Echo; and donkeys Pearl and Fernando
Fun fact: I met Patrick Swayze in 1992 in Kentucky when he was showing his Arabian horses and I happened to be there the same day. He was my favorite actor so it was a huge treat!
Mandi
Veterinary Technician
Mandi has been with us for quite a while, but some of you may not know her face because she prefers to remain behind the scenes. She became a member of the WEAC staff in September 2017. She is one of our exotic experts, so if you have brought in a snake, lizard, bird, or other exotic pet (all those creepy crawlies that terrify most of us are her area of expertise!), chances are she was the one working with your baby. She loves that every day is a new adventure. Mandi got into the veterinary industry because she likes animals more than people. When she goes home from the clinic, she has a houseful of family waiting for her there, including one spunky grandbaby. In her free time, she enjoys animals, painting, and sleeping.
Pets: 3 macaques, 2 macaws, 1 anaconda, 4 dogs, 1 Quaker parrot, and 48,134,752 cats
Kristen
Veterinary Technician
Growing up, Kristen had a passion for helping animals in need. She went to college and finally got her dream job as a vet tech, something she never thought she would get to do. She became part of the WEAC family on April 9, 2021. She loves having a great work family and getting to learn so much about all kinds of animals (and she knows a lot!). Kristen’s greatest accomplishments in life are becoming a wife to husband, Clinton, and mother to 2 boys, Drakon and Ronin, and getting to follow her dreams. In her free time, she enjoys painting (she’s very good, y’all), doing outdoor activities with her husband and kids, baking, and being artsy. She’s a very talented artist and loves all things Disney.
Pets: Cats and dogs (Tugger, Elsa, Olaf, Puglet, Mowgli, Groot), rabbits, reptiles, chickens, geese, ducks, (she’s always adding to the mix!) and a partridge in a pear tree
Fun Fact: Hummingbirds are the only bird that can fly backwards
Aleana
Veterinary Technician
Aleana keeps us laughing here at WEAC. Those of you who are Dr Wilson’s clients are very familiar with her smiling face. Prior to joining us, Aleana worked with children at a daycare center and spent many long nights earning her CDA. However, her career path changed on March 23, 2020, when she found her way to our clinic and joined our staff. She continues with that same drive to learn and determination to be her best here. Since she was young, Aleana has always loved animals and has always wanted to help them, no matter what. In fact, what she loves most about her job is her ability to help, seeing new things, and, of course, the animals. Aleana enjoys fishing, hunting, mudding, and riding around (she’s a real outdoorsy type).
Pets: Pit bull Aspen
Fun Fact: Sea turtles can live for more than 100 years.
Eli
Veterinary Technician
Eli is one of our newbies here at the clinic, and he is the only male vet tech we have currently. Fortunately, he grew up with a large family and has 4 siblings, 2 sisters and 2 brothers, so he takes being surrounded by all these women in stride. He loves his job because every day is a new challenge and he gets to see lots of cool exotics. He was inspired by Steve Irwin (crikey!) and has always wanted to help animals in need. He was also inspired to work with animals by his grandfather who took him hiking to catch snakes, turtles, gators, and the like. He enjoys fishing, camping and is also techy and mechanical, building computers and working on cars. He loves the reptiles and all the creepy crawlies.
Pets: 1 bearded dragon and 1 cat
Fun Fact: He won a “prettiest eyes” as a baby
Miranda
Veterinary Technician
Miranda’s love for animals and the determination that she has to help them in any way she can led her to the field of veterinary medicine. She loves her job here because she gets to do what she loves every day by working with animals and getting paid for it. During her senior year of high school, she was enrolled in the vet tech program and had the opportunity to work with animals.
Miranda is an only child but has a really large family, and she has over 20 animals, big and small. In high school, she showed cattle and pigs, and she still enjoys working with and riding horses, rescuing dogs, and showing cattle. She is CVA certified and has experience working with large animals. She is in college to become a veterinarian, and we know she will be a great one!
Pets: cows, horses, dogs, cats, and donkeys
Fun Fact: Miranda loves her animals more than she likes most people.
Hunter
Receptionist and Vet Technician
Our favorite ginger, Hunter wears multiple hats here in the clinic. She is a tech-ceptionist extraordinaire, working up front as a receptionist several days a week and in the back as a tech on other days. She came to us with a background of many different jobs, but we’re so happy she found her way here. She learns lightning fast and is always willing to pitch in wherever she’s needed, and we love her for it! She spices up our boards with hilarious messages, and in our industry, a sense of humor like that must be protected at all costs! Hunter’s home life is full of adventure. She loves the great outdoors, and her days off often find her camping, kayaking, fishing, and enjoying the open air. She has her hands full with a lively, beautiful, sassy 4-year-old daughter, Nora, who keeps her on her toes but fills her heart with more joy that she ever thought possible.
Pets: Boots the cat (unless a 4-year-old counts!)
Fun Fact: Redheads make up less than 2% of the population, and the odds of having red hair and blue eyes is 0.17%, making me one of the rarest flowers in the garden
Kendall
Licensed Veterinary Technician
Kendall joined our team at the tail end of 2023 and is a welcome addition to our WEAC family. She brings with her a plethora of knowledge and experience, which we all benefit from and rely on. She relocated here from Colorado, so she favors the cooler weather, lower humidity, and soaring views (who can blame her??) over the steamy heat and flat landscape we locals are accustomed to around here. She may have made her home in Southeast Texas, but she’ll never forgive it for the humidity. Kendall is a newlywed, and adores her sweet husband, Ethan, for whom she would do anything (after all, she DID give up Colorado for him!). Kendall is an outdoor girl, and in her spare time, she can be found on the hiking trail or on horseback.
Pets: Whiskey and Scotch the cats and Tucker the Golden Retriever
Fun Fact: The term “cheeseburger” was officially coined in Denver, trademark awarded to the owner of Humpty Dumpty restaurant in 1935.
Sketch
Bouncer
Sketch joined the WEAC staff at a very young age. During the time of her innocent youth, she accepted an invitation inside once, but it felt more like an alien abduction (cold steel table, long sharp instruments, bright lights, weird noises and smells). They did unspeakable things to her (she will now no longer be able to fulfill her dream of becoming a mother to hundreds of babies). She has never forgotten or forgiven that betrayal, so she now refuses to enter the building. She has, however, accepted her motherless lot in life and lives very happily outside our clinic doors in her custom-made tiny home. She loves that her commute is so short so she can sleep and enjoy a morning latte before arriving to work. She takes her job very seriously and spends her days lovingly stalking her humans, demanding treats, keeping up staff morale, torturing cat-crazy dogs through the glass front doors, and causing visiting humans to question the staff about the “stray cat” outside. Her hobbies include breakfast, lunch, and dinner (and, of course, the aforementioned treats), as well as long walks through the woods with her long-term boyfriend, Dwight.
Pets: 12 humans
Fun Fact: Cats are the superior beings on the planet.
Steve
Warden
Steve joined WEAC around 5 years ago, but his past is shrouded in mystery. Rumor has it, he was relocated to the area as part of the Witness Protection Program and is, in fact, Frankie “Pretty Boy” Caruso (and he has the eyelashes to prove it), former mafia enforcer for the Gambino Crime Family who disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Although Steve can neither confirm nor deny this rumor, it does give weight to the theory that he lost his tail in the hit-gone-wrong that ended his career and caused “The Family” to turn against him. Steve is quite and prefers to keep to himself but is an avid people-watcher. He enjoys rock climbing and hanging out by the pond. He likes the decor around here but wishes we would redecorate the office in a more art gecko style. His favorite movies are the Lizard of Oz and Jurassic Park.
Fun Fact: Crested geckos (like me) don’t have eyelids. We use our tongues to lick our eyes clean and keep them moist.
