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Vet Tech to Zookeeper?

Are you a vet Tech? (pref in Canada) please help me out?

  • Hey, so, for a while now, (the past year or so) Ive been seriously looking into becoming a vet tech. I graduated this year from highschool, and I took the required courses (except for math, which I am taking in an extra semester in the fall). I have been planning on applying to vet tech programs in Ontario (where I live) in the spring, (to attend the fall 2012 Classes) but I am getting scared now. I was talking to a friend who also wants to become a vet tech, and she had a very different opinion of what vet techs do. So I would love to hear from an actual vet tech, to see what you guys really do. Please give me as much detail as you can, also, If you are up to answering lots of questions, I can exchange emails with you. I am planning on specializing as an Equine vet tech, and finding work in an Equine hospital. And i have been accepted to an Internship at KESMARC in Kentucky, sort of doing stablehand type jobs, but also doing medical work such as bandaging, injections, medications, etc, and working with the horses with equipment such as swimming pools and treadmills. (You can google KESMARC and see more). Please help me, I am getting really concerned about what exactly vet techs do. If it is just cage cleaning, (or stalls) and holding animals, I don't know what I am going to do.

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    A very general list of things that a veterinary technician would do would include collecting patient histories, collect biological samples (blood, urine, feces, etc), running diagnostic tests, monitoring and medicating hospitalized animals, assisting in surgery, administering and monitoring anesthesia, performing dental cleanings, providing treatment for outpatients as prescribed by the attending veterinarian, filling prescriptions, answering client questions on preventative medicine, disease processes, medications, etc, maintaining inventory, caring for surgical and medical equipment such as anesthesia machines, taking radiographs, entering medical records, etc. Equine veterinary technicians may also be required to maintain inventory in the vet truck, clean stalls, haul hay and feed, go on farm calls with the veterinarian and provide general daily care for horses that are hospitalized, etc I would highly recommend that you shadow a small animal vet tech and an equine vet tech before you enroll in veterinary technology courses.

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My mother is a vet tech, she actually wrote the anaesthesiology chapter of the book you would study from. She was never a tech for horses but I know that with small animals techs do alot of work. There is the cage cleaning and holding animals, but you also do most of the prep work for surgery and assist with it, you do the blood tests and the xrays, and it's usually the techs that talk to owners.

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