#ask a vet tech

[vmkhoneyy]

“People are inherently terrible” no!!! Have you ever seen a child wait for their friend while they tie their shoelaces? Have you ever known someone who would bring hurt squirrels and rabbits and mice to the nearest vet just so it doesn’t suffer? Have you seen someone grieve? Have you ever read something that hit your heart like a freight train? Have you looked at the stars and felt an unexplainable joy? Have you ever baked bread? Have you shared a meal with a friend? Have you not seen it? All the love? All the good? I know it’s hard to see sometimes, I know there’s pain everywhere. But look, there’s a child helping another up after a hard fall. Look, there’s someone giving their umbrella to a stranger. Look, there’s someone admiring the spring flowers. Look, there’s good, there’s good, there’s good. Look!!!!

[askavettech]

Do you happen to know if there's a place I could get free vet tech ebooks? I don't have the money for college just yet, but I know this is what I want to do and my library doesn't have any.

Well...

I definitely wouldn't recommend looking up Library Genesis, a completely free service that hosts thousands of books of every kind to download at your convenience. I'd also never point you in the direction of The Internet Archive, which houses one of the largest libraries of written, audio, and visual media on the internet. If you need access to scientific journal articles with paywalls, I would never suggest putting the DOI number into SciHub to obtain access to free PDF copies.

I could never ethically say that these are great resources for anyone in academia or who are looking to learn. I'd never imply that the threshold for entry into the veterinary field is so impossibly high that it is almost unattainable. It's not like we could use all the help we could get. 

I'd never say that.

[perilegs]

my sweet little baby man is no longer with us

[reality-detective]

To all vets and vet techs you know or anyone who has successfully dewormed their dogs.

INCLUDES:

X-rays

Vet thoughts

Blood work

And more

You could save a life by sharing this. She’s held me down through all of these conspiracy works that he has done. 🤔

[redux-iterum]

Thank you both for the kind words, I very much appreciate them. I'm sorry you also lost a pet recently, Electric - it's worse than I remember every time. I just have to be content knowing he's in a better place and he won't have to suffer lymphoma and arthritis anymore. I do feel a distant, flaring fury at his previous owner for never taking him to the vet (I suspect we could have prevented that intestinal cancer if he'd caught the gut problems in time and gave enough of a shit to take care of it), but it's not productive. What's done is done. Even if I'd pay good money to get away with throttling the motherfucker.

I actually debated on if I should put him down today, because over the weekend he perked up on some medicine and seemed to be going uphill a little - though if I was even a little late to give him that medicine, he would shut down and huddle in pain. When I brought that up to the vet, he sadly told me that the dosage Rocky was on should have cured him completely, not just made him more or less stable, if this was fixable. I'm eternally grateful for his honesty when he said that putting it off would just make things harder for me, and potentially worse for Rocky if the medicine stopped working. I ended up making the decision to do it today, as miserable as it made me.

It's funny. Geno's death was difficult and extremely painful, but somehow Rocky was the harder one to put down. At least with Geno, I had fourteen years with him, and I knew those years were good. Rocky was such a brief blip in my life, and yet I spent the entire weekend and drive to the vet trying to find a way out of putting him down today and wondering if I was doing the right thing. Odd thing to happen.

[arlo-venn]

Arlo did a pretty good job for his first time at the vet since CareCenter threw a towel over his head and tackled him to the floor and I am very proud of him

[orcinus-veterinarius]

Do you have any tips for a vet tech student who wants to work at a zoo at some point in the future?

The Association of Zoo Veterinary Technicians is a great resource!!!

I would recommend browsing their list of zoo externships for tech students and joining as a subscribing member (only $22 USD a year). Professional memberships are incredibly helpful and also look great on resumes! The most difficult aspect of the zoo field is getting your foot in the door, but once you do, it becomes much easier to find opportunities.

In the mean time, keeping working hard in school and get strong letters of recommendation. If you’re a great vet tech for domestic species, you’ll be a great vet tech for exotics!

Good luck!

[mod2amaryllis]

there have been many times I've thought a situation would turn me into the joker but the urinary blocked cat patient I'm dealing with today who has pulled out 2 urinary catheters and 3 iv's within seconds of going in a kennel despite every engineering attempt we can possible think of to keep these fucking tubes in his body is really actually literally gonna turn me into the joker

[sunflowersandroses-blog]

Send me some questions please 🥰 bored while studying for my VTNE

[wildpeachfarm]

as someone who owns a lot of dogs, i’d say dteam are more like dogs

-george has little spoiled dog energy

-dream is a golden retriever

-sapnap’s a weenie dog

omg the sapnap one I have never considered but that is kinda awesome :0

also yeah this is fairly accurate 😭

[a-e-redacted]

I gotta ask, I’m not sure if it was ever mentioned in the fic, but does King have scars from his near-fatal injury in the flashback chapters, or was it just healed perfectly?

You know, that’s a really good question and not something I’ve addressed in MoonShadow.

I think the answer would be that yes undoubtedly he does, but they aren’t necessarily visible under his fur.

Since Camila attended to King’s injuries immediately, the edges of any punctures and lacerations would have been fresh without any time for granulation tissue to develop. The external wounds would suture back together fairly nicely. Fur would likely grow back and cover them, although they could probably still be felt if one were to run their fingers over them under his fur.

That being said, I kind of love the idea of King having visible scars from the incident, so feel free to run with that!

(This is all assuming that Titans heal similarly to human realm mammals. Since the fist part of MoonShadow was written prior to much knowledge of Titans’ regenerative powers, I am not taking that bit of lore into account here, but it could certainly come into play in King surviving his injuries).

[iheartvmt]

What do you know about getting a VTS? Do you know anyone who's gotten one? I'm looking at starting to pursue a VTS in behavior, anesthesia/analgesia, or ECC. Is it possible to get multiple throughout my career?

Well, I know that specializing isn't for me; I get way too bored when we have too much of one type of case in a row! :)

Each specialty has their own requirements, but my understanding is that most include already being a credentialed vet tech in good standing in your state for a certain number of years, submitting case reports, and having a DVM boarded in the specialty sign off on you completing the various skills and knowledge requirements. At the end you take an exam, and then you have certain CE requirements independent of state credentialing requirements to maintain your specialization.

It is possible to have multiple specialties; from what I've seen people who get specialized in multiple fields usually do so in ones with a lot of overlap (like surgery and anesthesia).

I've met a few VTS irl, mostly at professional conferences where they were giving CE lectures or labs. There are also FB groups with VTS moderators, such as Veterinary Anesthesia Nerds (anesthesia/analgesia).

Any VTS on here feel free to chime in!

[theloveinc]

anon I can’t respond to ur ask bc I’d just trauma dump but 💕ty!

[ostropest]

Doesn't need an answer. Hope you and kitku are living your best lives

It's Kitku world and I'm only living in it

[pocket-jew]

I was so confused when you said a patient was named Sandman, until I saw that you were a veterinarian's assistant. 😆

😂😂 yeah, context does help with that one

[partynthem]

something has been happeniung to me lately