You Know You’re A Vet Tech When…
-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.
-After seeing what goes into the washing machine at work, your own laundry at home doesn’t seem so dirty.
-Every piece of clothing you own is covered in cat hair.
- Of your pets there’s at least one that is either 3-legged, lame, blind in one eye or has 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 you find hair in your food-You just pull it out and keep on eating.
-When you are the first one in the hospital and don’t notice the smell.
-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.
-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 are more afraid of a 5 lb cat than a 130 lb Rottweiler any day.
-You’ve ever set up/checked a fecal sample while eating.
-You’ve ever treated a wound on yourself with surgical scrub and vet wrap.
-You can express anal glands better than you can express your own feelings.
-You can identify each patient you saw that day by the hair, urine stain, vomit, anal scent, or poop smear on your scrubs.
-Your paycheck barely covers your food bills, but all of your pets eat premium food.
-Your own pets think you have cheated on them every time you come home from work.
-You no longer have a gag reflex (most of the time).
-You never try to pet a small dog especially if it’s being carried.
-You’re horrible at remember client names but you always remember their pets names.
-You own or have owned a pet with any of the following names – Tripod, Lucky, Gimpy, Peg Leg, One-ear, Poopy Pants, Demon Cat, etc.
Thanks for getting back to me. I am working on my blog site and will definitely post this. I will definitely credit and link you though I am sure it will be years before people know I exist.
This list is the best! I have been a Practice Manager for about 15 years now. I found one of your business cards at CVC in DC this past April. I have decided to start a blog and am doing some research and your site has been very helpful. The first statement on this list almost made me pee in my pants! I have approximately 12 or so “coffins” in my office. As a newbie, a question. Is it appropriate for me to post this list to Facebook or to my blog to share with others, and how would I make it clear that the credit goes to you and not me? Sorry to bother you with such “dumb”" questions and I totally understand if you don’t get back to me. Keep up the good work and I hope you don’t slip in urine and land in vomit this week, or anything like that.
Hey! thanks for reading, it’s nice to know that my business cards did work at directing people here
In regards to your questions- this list is a compilation of about 3-4 lists that I found all over the internet, plus the addition of my own and my coworkers. So feel free to use it, and if you want to link back great, if not that’s OK too since it’s not completely my work.
thanks again for reading and for the comment!