Veterinary license verifications for both vets and techs are
publicly available for all states through that state's board of veterinary examiners, so the very first thing I checked when I saw that this guy was a tech was whether he had an active license on file in either New Jersey or North Carolina. (Spoiler alert: he doesn't.) I also ran a pretty basic search to see if he had ever had any kind of disciplinary action taken against him by either state's board, and didn't find any evidence there, either.
We know from an archived Facebook post from Fishtown Animal Hospital that this is where Joshua was previously employed. (Also presumably the clinic that was unwittingly supplying doggy date rape drugs to half the zoosadism community.)
https://archive.md/Towct
We know this is definitely the right Joshua because the pet names line up with posts he made on whatever furfucker forum this was, they're all blurring together at this point tbh:
https://archive.md/lFfJk
Now you'll notice that while the animal clinic does list him as a veterinary technician, it does not give any actual credentials for him. Unlike the term "nurse" with humans, the term "veterinary technician/vet tech" is not a nationally protected term, nor is there a nationally standardized name for what a properly credentialed tech is called. Each state determines what terminology is and isn't allowed to be used by uncredentialed veterinary staff, and what credentials (RVT, LVT, or CVT) are given to those who get their degree.
In New Jersey, the term for someone who's gone through the minimum 2-year educational requirement and passed the VTNE (the national exam required for licensure) would be "Certified Veterinary Technician," or CVT. However, per the
New Jersey Veterinary Medical Association: "Currently, the state of New Jersey doesn’t require you to become certified in order to practice" as a technician.
In the Facebook post, they mention that Joshua obtained his education at Burlington County Institute of Technology in Westampton. A quick search of BCIT's website shows that they do not, in fact, offer a CVT program. What they do have is a Veterinary Assistant program--essentially the animal equivalent of a CNA, except there isn't a national exam or any kind of proper licensing procedure at the moment for VAs. (Yes, the veterinary industry is a complete fucking dumpster fire, thank you for asking!)
https://archive.md/lFUvV
So in short, no, Kintari never got his license back because there was never a license to lose in the first place.
You might be wondering why this matters or is worth bringing up, so here's why: if there is no license involved, there is no way to properly discipline someone in the industry for this kind of gross and malicious misconduct. Sure, you can fire him, and when the next clinic calls and asks for employment verification, you can say he wouldn't be eligible for rehire. But in a lot of states, that's as much as you can say, and without any kind of official documentation tied to a license, he could easily get a job in the field again.
I can tell you that right now every clinic in the country is understaffed and overwhelmed. Good techs and assistants are leaving due to burnout, having to miss work due to illness or quarantine procedures, etc., and there's been a huge spike in pet ownership because of the pandemic. All of that adds up to a lot of desperation on the part of practice managers needing to get experienced bodies in the door, and it would be extremely easy for him to slide in under the radar if said practice manager doesn't do a good enough web search. Which is frankly terrifying, given how he used his position in the clinic as a means not only to torture his own pets but also facilitate the torture and murder of several others--and IIRC it was his drugs that were going to be used to rape a human being as well.