Kalen Faber, DVM
Dr. Kalen Faber graduated from North Carolina State University, College of Veterinary Medicine in May 2003. After moving to St. Petersburg, Florida, she was an associate veterinarian at Central Animal Hospital for 10 years.
For the past few years she has been working for other veterinarians when they cannot be in their offices, working in spay/neuter clinics, and running a house-call practice devoted to cats. She has always had a strong interest in feline medicine and constantly alludes to an accurate statement that she learned in vet school, “Cats are not small dogs.”
In March 2016, she purchased All Cats Hospital and has been caring exclusively for cats ever since.
She lives in Seminole with her husband, Peter, and their three cats; Zack, Mojo and Florence.
Her interests, other than animals, include sports and listening to music. She loves to watch the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Rays. She also enjoys scuba diving, bowling and golfing.
Her community contributions include membership in the Northeast Exchange Club (NEX), a service club whose national mission is the prevention of child abuse. She helps organize and staff Ribfest, the NEX fundraiser that has donated over 3.5 million to local children’s charities. She was a member of the 1,000 Bitches at SPCA Tampa Bay for 2 years. She also performed surgeries monthly at Spay Day, an all volunteer trap-neuter-release (TNR) project for feral cats in Tampa for 10 years.
Irene Lee, DVM
Dr. Lee has always been a cat lover since she was little, and she was always the kid who brought sick stray cats home. Over the years, the desire to be able to help the strays inspired her to pursue her goal of becoming a feline veterinarian! She graduated from Florida State University with a Biology degree, and then she graduated with Honors from the College of Veterinary Medicine at University of Florida in 2002.
While in veterinary school, Dr. Lee served as the President of the student chapter of the American Association of Feline Practitioners (AAFP) and was an advocate for promoting feline education and hands-on experience for her fellow students. She worked closely with feline expert Dr. Levy and had published journals in the Journal of American Veterinary Medical Association. At graduation, Dr. Lee was recognized for her excellence in feline medicine and surgery by the AAFP.
Dr. Lee was an active volunteer for Operation Catnip, a local TNR (trap-neuter-return) program for feral cats while she was at school. After graduation, she continued to be a volunteer of TNR program at Coalition of Tampa for over 10 years.
Dr. Lee has worked at several feline hospitals in the Tampa Bay area since 2002. She is a member of AAFP and AVMA. She and her husband Jimmy have two kids, Gracie and Aaron. She shares her home with 6 cats, Charlotte, Chicken, Pumpkin, Daisy, Teddy and Sissy. They also have several fish tanks to entertain the cats >^..^<
May-Li Cuypers, DVM, DACVIM
Dr. May-li Cuypers received her DVM degree from the University of Florida in 1992. After two years in general practice, she completed her residency in internal medicine at Louisiana State University.
She is a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine and has been in private referral practice since 1997. She performs ultrasounds, echocardiograms, and endoscopy.
Dr. Cuypers sees patients at All Cat Hospital so there is no need to take your cat to an unfamiliar facility. She is usually available to see patients within 1 to 2 days, but may be available on the same day for a critical patient. We feel incredibly fortunate that Dr.Cuypers helps us help our patients.
Dr. Cuypers is also a world class triathlete and adventure racer.
Vicki, Hospital Administrator
Vicki is a Michigan native. There she earned her BS in Speech Pathology at Central Michigan University. Upon graduation she realized that her truest passion was for helping animals and so she discontinued her Speech Path career and has been working in various capacities with animals ever since.
Vicki shares her home with her husband, Kevin, and 2 cats Nacho and Piper.
In her spare time Vicki enjoys listening to music of all genres (but especially live acoustic), cooking, trying new cuisines, herb gardening, entertaining, visiting friends and family in Michigan (as well as entertaining them when they visit), and traveling with her husband.
Barbara, Practice Manager
Barbara joined the veterinary industry in 1990 working in various departments from an assistant, receptionist to a veterinary technician.
After finishing her veterinary technician program at Pima Medical Institute and passing her VTNE exam she became a Certified Veterinary Technician.
Shortly after, she moved from Arizona to Florida to continue her career in the veterinary industry. In 2012 she was given the chance to manage a Veterinary Hospital in Port Saint Lucie, utilizing her many years of experience and knowledge of the industry. After years of working with many different types of companion pets, Barbara realized that she was most passionate about working with cats and learning their specific behaviors. After realizing cats are not “small dogs”, she found the importance of advancing her skillset and becoming fear-free certified and an advocate for all cats to experience a fear free veterinary exam.
Working as a manager, Barbara enjoys watching the team working collectively, producing amazing results in the lives of the cats they work with daily. She loves the challenge of the day-to-day and creating positive solutions. She enjoys working closely with her team, gathering crucial information, and developing key performance indicators to ensure healthy practice growth.
Barbara enjoys spending time with her grandbabies Elaina and Oakley in her free time. She also enjoys
camping, trail riding, going to the beach, boating, and listening to acoustic live music.
She shares her life with 4 very demanding cats. Baby, Keepurr, Pandy, and Letti who are all Persians, and all High maintenance. -^..^-
Tamara, Certified Veterinary Technician
Tamara graduated from St. Petersburg College in 2005 with a degree in veterinary technology. That same year she started working at All Cats Hospital as a Certified Veterinary Technician. She has two cats named Minion and Wednesday, a dog named Happy Jack, and five snakes. When she isn’t helping kitties feel better at All Cats, she spends her time writing, reading, visiting Universal Studios, and contemplating home improvement projects. She has written four novels, which she hopes to publish someday if they ever get out of the editing stage.
Glenda, Certified Veterinary Technician
Glenda joined the All Cats team in 2017. Glenda is our “weekend warrior” in that, while the rest of the staff takes the weekend off, Glenda gives up her time to monitor and care for the boarding cats staying at All Cats Hospital over the weekend.
She is also the Senior Veterinary Technician at St. Pete College’s Certified Veterinary Technician (CVT) program where her main responsibility is to manage the kennel and supervise the care of the animals used in the program. For the past 7 years, she has been an adjunct professor for the CVT program. Finally, Glenda does CVT relief work for Pinellas County Animal Services as well other organizations.
Glenda and her husband have two children, two cats, three dogs, a bearded dragon and two rats.
When not working, Glenda enjoys reading, exercising, Taekwondo, and learning sign language. Clearly Glenda has an aversion to “spare time”.
Ted, Veterinary Technician
Ted is a lover of all animals big and small with the largest spot in his heart belonging to cats.
A Bulgarian-born only child he’s always had animals in his life to care for and cherish. Though he currently devotes most of his time to animal care he comes from a vast background in horticulture driven by his fascination with all things plant-related.
Ted shares a loving home in Clearwater with his girlfriend, Crystina, spider Reina, and their two cats Loki and Kylo.
When he isn’t cleaning the kennel or filling food bowls in the back of All Cats he enjoys getting beaten at tabletop games by his girlfriend, getting into a new video game or anime, or trying to learn a song on some sort of instrument.
In this new environment, he hopes to bring kindness, love, and respect to each and every patient in his care.
Diane, Veterinary Technician
Diane started working in the veterinary medical field in 2002 as a veterinary assistant. She attended the SPC Veterinary Technology Program.
She has worked in small animal practices, veterinary emergency hospitals and feline only practices. Feline medicine and care have always been her passion.
When not working, she cares for her 2 human kids, 4 cats and a rabbit. In her down time, she provides foster care for a local feline rescue that specializes in orphaned kittens.
Jessica, Certified Veterinary Technician
Jessica first started working with animals professionally while pursuing her Bachelors in Virginia. She worked at a horse barn during term and various veterinary practices during the summer. One summer was spent at the New York Aquarium taking care of pinnipeds, otters, penguins, sea turtles and sharks. After college she was a zookeeper at a 180 acre safari in Virginia. There she was responsible for hundreds of free roaming animals including giraffes, rhinos, zebras, pigs and several species of ratites, camelids, cervids, bovids and antelope. She relocated to Orlando and spent some time working at SeaWorld and Disney with the goal of getting into their animal care departments.
However, her childhood dream of working in Vet Med brought her to St. Petersburg where she got a degree in veterinary technology. She worked at the SPCA while going to school and then moved to Gainesville to work in the veterinary hospital at UF. Missing the beach life she moved back to Clearwater and found Banfield where she worked during the years surrounding COVID. Developing a passion for working with cats she sought out All Cats Hospital. She is one of the newer additions joining the team in 2024.
Outside of All Cats she enjoys volunteering in various industries, taking classes, going to the beach, kayaking in the springs, visiting Open Houses and dabbling in the housing market with her real estate license. She lives with her boyfriend TJ, her cat Ella and two new stray cats that they are working to socialize. Her and TJ named them Mickey and Sparkie.
Kayleigh
Kayleigh is our Hospital Assistant extraordinaire who juggles many duties with grace and ease. She started with us in May of 2023, and whilst fairly new to the veterinary world, she has vast experience fostering kittens and a great passion for loving all feline friends.
She is always willing to lend a helping hand wherever she can. We can always count on her for a good laugh or a boost of positive energy. Her love of cats is a cornerstone of her work with us and she has a special talent of whistling Christmas songs that even the most stubborn cats melt for.
With an eclectic background of ever-changing college majors, Kayleigh has experience in human medicine, writing, preschool teaching, computer technology, and culinary arts. When not working, she loves to spend time with friends and family, paint, try new foods, snuggle her three cats, Bear, Cheese, and Dragon and emotionally snuggle her fish.
Dragon, the kitty pictured, was a very scared little guy who had an altercation with a hawk as a baby that left him semi-paralyzed and special needs. He lived in our kennel for 8 months. Kayleigh worked here for one month, and he now has a forever home with her. A small testament to her endearment towards cats. Bring your kitty by for a visit, and Kayleigh will be honored to care for them.