10/18/2026
🐾💉 IT’S VET TECH WEEK! 💉🐾
In honor of Vet Tech Week, we thought we’d answer a very important question:
What exactly does a Veterinary Technician do?
The short answer?
Yes. 😂
Nurse? Yep.
Anesthetist? Yep.
Phlebotomist? Yep.
Dental hygienist? Yep.
Radiology tech? Yep.
Laboratory tech? Yep.
Pharmacy tech? Yep.
Surgical assistant? Yep.
Professional animal snuggler? Obviously.
Dog wrestler? Occasionally. More often than we like.
Detective trying to figure out what your dog ate? Yep.
At Eaton Veterinary Clinic, we try to do as much as possible right there in the exam room with you—which means some of you have personally witnessed the controlled chaos. 😂
On any given day, our techs may be:
💉 Drawing blood from a 12-pound dog who has suddenly developed the strength of a silverback gorilla.
🐾 Placing an IV catheter while a Husky dramatically announces that this is, in fact, the worst thing that has EVER happened to them.
🩻 Taking X-rays and discovering once again that dogs do not understand the phrase “hold still.”
🦷 Cleaning teeth and uncovering things that probably qualify as archaeological discoveries.
😴 Monitoring anesthesia, because while your pet is peacefully snoozing, we are watching approximately 700 things at once.
🔬 Running bloodwork, urine and f***l samples—and somehow still being perfectly capable of eating lunch afterward.
💊 Calculating medications, filling prescriptions and triple-checking that everything is exactly right.
✂️ Trimming nails while your 80-pound Labrador becomes convinced we are removing the entire foot.
👂 Cleaning ears and discovering exactly how far an ear shake can launch cleaner across a room.
🩹 Creating a beautiful bandage only to watch the patient immediately begin plotting its removal.
🩺 Taking vitals while simultaneously giving treats, answering questions, holding a leash and preventing someone from eating the stethoscope.
🧴 Prepping surgical patients, shaving approximately 47 pounds of fur off a 12-pound animal and somehow going home with most of it attached to our scrubs.
📞 Answering questions, giving discharge instructions and saying “Yes, please keep the cone on” for what may be the 47th time that day.
🧼 Cleaning the floor.
🧼 Cleaning the floor again.
🧼 WHY IS THE FLOOR WET AGAIN?!
And yes, occasionally getting WAY too excited about a good p**p.
Veterinary medicine changes a person. 😂
But underneath all the fur, caffeine, mystery fluids and pockets full of pens we swear aren’t ours, there’s a much bigger reason we do it.
We learn our patients.
We know who needs cheese before they’ll even consider cooperating. We know who needs a little extra patience. We know who wants to sit in Mom’s lap, who would sell their soul for peanut butter and who walked through the door already planning our demise. 😂
We sit on the floor with the scared ones.
We cuddle them while they wake up from anesthesia.
We celebrate when the sick ones finally eat.
We cheer when their bloodwork improves.
We remember them. We talk about them. We worry about them.
And on the days when medicine can’t fix everything, we’re there to give them one more scratch, one more cuddle and all the love we can until the very end. ❤️
Being a Veterinary Technician means doing a little bit of everything—sometimes all within the same five minutes.
And we wouldn’t trade it.
Okay… maybe we’d trade the a**l glands.
Definitely the a**l glands. 😂
Happy Vet Tech Week to the caffeine-fueled, fur-covered, and sarcasm filled techs at Eaton Veterinary Clinic! Because we have not 1, not 2, but 3!! 🐾💉❤️
