Veterinary Technology: You Might Be A Veterinary Technician If
You Might Be A Veterinary Technician If:
- You look at a cardboard box and recognize its coffin potential.
- When you go out to a club and the black light comes on, you check yourself and others for ringworm.
- You can eat lunch while cleaning up a Parvo blowout.
- You can keep your milkshake frozen in the freezer near all the "pupsicles".
- You take your kids temp and think 102°F is normal.
- After seeing what goes into the washing machine at work, your own laundry at home doesn't seem so dirty.
- Your work clothes look just like your pajamas.
- Every piece of clothing you own is covered in cat hair.
- You open your lunch container and find a spleen.
- You date guys who don't mind if you have "bits" in your hair.
- All of your pets are either 3-legged lame, blind in one eye or have a medical problem no vet has ever seen before.
- You've put your finger in every orifice of at least five different species.
- You can detect maggots at 100 paces just by the smell or you can smell "Parvo".
- You have friends that laugh at your impressions of "Kennel Cough" & "Reverse Sneezing".
- Pets are more recognizable than their owners.
- When dining and find hair in your food-You just pull it out and keep on eating.
- The first thing you wonder when opening up a big cat abscess is, "Do we have any Ritz Crackers?
- You hack up hairballs and self-medicate with Laxatone.
- When you are the first one in the hospital and don't notice the smell.
- You start to actually like the smell of anal glands.
- You play connect the dots with all your scars and bite wounds.
- When normal people won't eat meals with you or won't allow you talk about your work while they eat.
- You get the flu and begin to empathize with the Parvo dogs.
- Your paycheck barely covers your food bill.
- If you've ever picked up dog poop with your bare hands.
- You can put a muzzle on with one hand.
- You know the term pink juice doesn't mean Kool Aid.
- You get a rash from just looking at a Shar Pei.
- You can tear bloody adhesive tape.
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