Happy Veterinary Technician Appreciation Week!!

You Know You’re a Vet Tech When…

You look at a cardboard box and recognize its coffin potential.

You go out to a club and when the black light comes on, you check yourself for ringworm.

You can eat lunch while cleaning up a Parvo blowout.

After seeing what goes into the washing machine at work, your own laundry doesn’t seem so dirty.

All of your pets are either 3 legged, deaf, lame, or blind in one eye.

You can detect maggots at 100 paces just by the smell.

You find a hair in your food, pull it out, and keep on eating.

You can play connect the dots with all your scars and puncture wounds.

You can put a muzzle on with ond hand.

You know the term, “pink juice” doesn’t mean Kool-Aid.

You get a rash just from LOOKING at a Shar-Pei.

You have cat hair all over your car, but don’t own a cat.

You think that a temperature of 102 is normal…for a human.

You’ve ever run out of towels, syringes, IV fluids, meds and patience all at the same time.

You no longer have a gag reflex.

When the vet asks, “What color is the patient’s diarrhea?” , you show him your shoes.

You see someone’s child throwing a fit and think it’s nothing that a serious dose of Ket/Val wouldn’t cure.

You’ve ever ‘bare-handed’ a mess.

You’ve ever set up/checked a fecal sample while eating.

You can express anal glands better than you can express your feelings.

You can identify each patient you saw that day by the hair, urine stain, vomit, anal scent, or poop smear on your scrubs

Lint rollers are on your shopping list every week.

You can smell Parvo from 200 meters.

You think a good way to handle the obnoxious drunk that’s hitting on you is with a catch pole and muzzle.

You are more afraid of a 5 lb cat than a 130 lb Rottweiler any day

You say at least once a day, “What am I doing here?”, but know that you wouldn’t trade it for anything.

Happy Vet Tech Appreciation Week, everyone!

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