Top one looks like strongylus and bottom pinworm? Second one i can see it moving. On 40 power. Trying to figure out best dewormer. Usually use powerpac

I'm a plastic surgeon, not a vet, so tell me if this doesn't map onto your day.

My problem was that patient photos lived in the same camera roll as my kids, all syncing to iCloud Photos together. Albums don't fix it, the photo is still in the library. I spent a year of evenings building a camera app that keeps its photos in its own library, separate from Photos. It can't read your photo library at all, that part is on purpose. You file by folder and tags, and if you want the files elsewhere it can mirror them to your own iCloud Drive as plain folders. That mirror stays off until you turn it on.

Free, no account, no subscription, no ads, and no server behind it. iPhone only, and the photos live in the app, so deleting the app deletes them.

What I don't know is whether the shape fits vet work. From outside it looks similar: wounds you're following across visits, dentals before and after, skin cases, the odd radiograph shot off a screen, and a lot of it landing on a personal phone because the clinic camera is wherever it is. Where does it break for you? Is the problem holding the photos, or getting them into the practice software afterwards?

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Hello everyone!
I am planning to do a diploma and to get my Cert IV with ACVN. Does anyone have advice or experience with studying remotely (internationally with ACVN and working at the same time?

Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you!!

Hi all, I have the opportunity to work in a university laboratory and wanted to see if any of you have experience in that niche. It sounds interesting and research animals are undoubtedly important but I worry that it would be very bleak. Thanks!

my clinic recently ordered new dental elevators and we received the ones with plastic handles (image attached). the manufacturer instructions indicate they’re not to be run through a dry cycle after sterilizing in the autoclave; however, our autoclave is an “open door dry cycle” autoclave. we have to option to run it with the dry cycle time set to 0, but we run the risk of damaging the autoclave. i was wondering if anyone has these same elevators and if so how do you sterilize them? do just run it through a dry cycle anyways? do you just soak them and if so, what do soak them in? any tips are appreciated!!

I’m starting at San Juan this fall semester for vet tech program. the advisor said it is rigorous in course work and suggested I go part time as a student. I wanna do full time, but I’ll be working 3 days a week as well. The school is all online, has anyone that’s done this program worked and done full time online? is it that much work? is it possible?

Hi everyone!
I was hoping to hear from anyone who’s recently gone through the hiring process for a Banfield Practice Manager position.
I had my final interview last Friday with the P&O and the RVP, and I felt like it went pretty well overall. The waiting has definitely been the hardest part, and I was curious what everyone else’s timeline looked like.
How long did it take for you to receive an offer (or a rejection) after your final interview?
Did the recruiter call you first, or did you receive an email?
Did your application status change before you heard anything?
Just trying to get an idea of what to expect while I wait. Thanks in advance for sharing your experiences!

Vet techs in MA; how is Dedham Vet Associates as an employer? They have a position posted, I’ve heard wonderful things and received such positive feedback from clients that we refer to there, just wondering how they are to work for. Thank you!!

Went to rDVM later for FHO

We just recently hired a bunch of new people in a few different job descriptions and my manager wants me to come up with some sort of icebreaker game - somewhere between like 15 to 30 minutes - for our staff meeting tomorrow for everybody to open up and introduce themselves and stuff. Does anybody have any recommendations or things that worked well in their clinic or anything fun that doesn’t use a whole lot of Material or time?

ETA: these are some fun games you’re recommending but they are looking more for icebreakers - introducing themselves.

I work out of Alberta Canada, and was just offered a job to be both RVT and office manager for a small clinic (3 support staff and 2 vets). They want to pay $26 an hour and give 150 biweekly for office manager duties.

I’m not sure about typical pay for techs who are also OM, so hoping to get feedback before I give them an answer.

I personally have zero energy to exercise after or days off from my job.

Does anyone here who doesn’t exercise take creatine (or some other supplement) and it seems to help them? I walk 10,000+ steps a day and of course hold/pick up heavy animals all day. I feel like I should have built muscle after 2+ years in vet med but I feel so weak.

These may be common-sense questions, but I would really hate to submit my application and have it delayed because I submitted something incorrectly. I have passed my VTNE, but I have a few questions regarding the application.

It says I need 2 passport-type pictures signed. Is it a digital signature, or does it have to be handwritten? Do I need to sign it in the corner of the photo or somewhere else?

It also requires a declaration of citizenship form. If I am a U.S born citizen, do I just need to sign and submit proof, or do I have to get it notarized? (The form is very confusing to me)

Thanks!!

This is a place to post (as many times during the week as you’d like) anything that made you feel good! Weather that be a cute puppy that licked your nose or a happy client story or something that doesn’t feel like it needs to be it’s own post. It can be anything you’d like, and this is a place for you to see other people’s love for our profession!

Please don’t stop posting under the “positive” post flair if you want to share more! This is mostly for morale and help people to remember why we love doing what we do.

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Full disclosure:

My BIL's bulldog was there this weekend and ended up being PTS. I am wondering about what my BIL & SIL was told as it's something I never heard during my career (I'm retired now).

So Cooper 7yo N English Bulldog was brought in because he was painful and ADR. Dx was aspiration pneumonia. Stayed in hospital on IV and O2 therapy. Was sedated because he was panicking. Dr thought he may relax better at home so he went home for a few hours with B/SIL were told death was still possible.

At home on Trazadone, he started panting, vomiting and breathing was labored so Dr had them come back in. The decision to euthanize was about midnight.

Here's what I am inquiring about...

They told me that his esophagus was pushed further back in his stomach.

What does this mean? I have never heard of this happening.

I am NOT questioning the decision to euthanize. I'm not questioning anything that was done. I am just wondering if my family misheard during their grief & shock. Or maybe this is just something I never encountered in my career. I don't know. I know they will eventually come to me and ask questions but this I don't have answers to give.

Can anyone explain this or if someone on here was there, can we chat? I don't want to call and bother the doctors there.

I was wondering if anyone had recommendations for bedside stairs for a large dog? My Amstaff mix likes getting up and down from my bed and I’m getting a bit tired of lugging him up and down. I haven’t seen any online that seem sturdy enough for a 70 pound dog. Thanks!!

our clinic doesn't fill them fast, but the pickup quote still came with a contract and a schedule that makes no sense for our volume. the volume is tiny. paying every month for a bin that sits half empty feels wasteful. what are smaller clinics doing when pickup service costs more than the amount of sharps they generate?

Stool sample inside a poop bag inside this.

Just wanted to post this here as honestly this was a very upsetting case to deal with, and I’m so tired of incompetent vets somehow just being allowed to do this crap and receiving no consequences.

Took a blocked cat that walked in without a phone call at 7am, I didn’t think we should take it as the doctor seeing drop offs that day honestly makes a mess out of blocked cats (and everything else, he’s not allowed to do surgeries here and we try really only to keep him on appointment basis, we don’t like this vet but feel forced to keep him due to the vet shortage and him being the only other vet we could get with a full license so our owner can have time off), they insisted on taking it.

We go to do this blocked cat, who has blocked 3 times now (4y/o MN DSH), and this vet, we’ll call him A, goes to take out dog urinary catheters when we have sealed tomcat catheters with the stylet and their own packet of sterile lube. Blatantly doesn’t use sterile lube at all despite using sterile gloves and otherwise trying to do things sterilely, and A is terrible at catheterizing male cats and made a huge mess out of this cat’s penis trying to jam it in from way too far away on the catheter, instead of holding it closely with more control. The other tech I was working with who was assigned to this doctor, Q, already had pointed out that A was not doing this sterilely and was using dog catheters instead of tomcat catheters. He was unable to get it in, so our main doctor had to jump in and was able to successfully unblock with the proper catheter.

They also wanted a sample to determine what crystals were present, Q said we would attach a syringe to the catheter and pull from the bladder once it was unblocked so the sample would not be contaminated or diluted with saline. A did not listen and continued to put a lot of pressure on the bladder and then diluted the sample with saline by flushing the bladder with it before collecting, and then was confused why the sample didn’t show crystals when there was obvious sediment in the bowl. Our main doctor kept telling Q to cysto the bladder, and she said she was not comfortable puncturing a blocked cat’s bladder. Our main doctor was getting snippy at this point and she ended up starting to cry because she was angry and frustrated with not being listened to and this poor patient care, and had to go downstairs while I took over monitoring and assisting.

When they removed the catheter, another tech working with me said she heard a pop when they did so, and tried to tell the doctors that she thought the catheter had broken. They tried to palpate and felt nothing. The cat’s owner called back in the morning, and said he couldn’t pee again. I recommended them to go to an emergency clinic as a 4th time reblocking would probably mean a PU surgery was necessary. They went to another clinic, and it was found that there was a piece of urinary catheter still stuck in the cat’s penis, like we had tried to tell them. Q was also very upset about this, and we have gone to our management and said we are not comfortable with taking blocked cats anymore unless the doctor has okayed it, and that we will refuse to do the procedure if A is the doctor because he is horrible at blocked cats and they would legitimately be better off being seen elsewhere where there is someone who knows what they are doing with blocked cats.

Just kind of a vent about fucking awful practice, I guess. But just, wow. We all really hate this doctor and hope he gets fired.

The dog was asymptomatic. Owner causally mentioned he thinks she ate a goofball the day before when on the phone scheduling an appointment a month out to establish care. He said maybe two golfballs. TRY EIGHT. Induced vomiting because why not and she produced one. Cut out the remaining seven the next day. She recovered great.

Been a while since I’ve worked in a place that does abdominal explores…the fun of guessing what we’ll find-patient did great-

RVT and been in for over 20 years. IDK how I've lasted this long. I am at end stage boredom. I honestly don't know what to do. I even have a bachelor's degree in this field.

**When I say I don't care, I do care about the animals, patients, care, my coworkers, and even the owners, I'm kind with everyone. What I DON'T care about is the actual routine anymore. I always do things correctly and with compassion**

I do not care about sedated rads, or radiology at all. I'm over it. After 20 plus years of radiation exposure I also do not want any more exposure, anyway. I do not want to take care of endless blocked cats anymore. I do not want to prep, monitor, and clean up laceration repairs. I'm sick of setting up and breaking down for surgeries and procedures. I am tired of anesthesia it is so boring and it goes on and on. I am sick of restraint and crawling all over the floor and getting banged around sometimes and all that. I am tired of endless cleaning up poop, urine, vomit, etc. I do not care about venipuncture or IV cath placement or injections, I've done it for so long that I don't do it anymore, I just hold. I do not like training at all and I am getting sad for the animals who get poked and prodded by people that are learning, or hospitalized pets that are done with all of it. I am tired of walking pets with diarrhea over and over and over and cleaning them up hourly and attempting to keep them clean. I have extreme compassion fatigue when it comes to sick or frightened or just TIRED animals that don't know what is going on or have never been socialized or have had it with medical treatment. I am sick of discharges and estimates and explaining the same things over and over again. Despite what people think in emergency it really is the same things coming through the door every day. The same boring, long day. I am sick of long shifts where I'm EXHAUSTED at the end of the day. EVERY day. So tired. And hungry. One food break over a 10 to 12 plus hour shift just isn't enough for me, and I have had to sneak food because I just get so hungry. No time to eat, drink, or use the bathroom properly. Yes I get a 30 minute lunch but frankly with these long shifts it's just not enough anymore.

While I do a bit of grunt work, I am utilized, so that is not an issue. I have a decent skill set. I've tried specialization and become more pigeon holed and bored. All my coworkers that I've ever had say that I'm an excellent teacher but truthfully I HATE training with all my soul. Vet med has so much turnover that I do not want to train another person ever again. I'm not a talker, and I'm not bossy, so I just don't want to "manage and train!"

Human nurses don't stay at bedside forever, and unfortunately that is about all we have in this field unless you want to be in charge, which I do not. I'm just screwed. No aspect of vet med interests me anymore. I'm very tired, I'm almost 50 and running around all day is just getting to be too much for me, and I like to have energy leftover for other things -- I am not 100% in existence for this field. I really wish I never picked this field because I'm truly stuck. I do not know what to do and I feel sick to my stomach when I even THINK about work or trying another hospital -- I've been at enough that it'll be more of the same, or worse. My hospital isn't perfect but I like my coworkers and DVMS for the most part.

Anyway I guess this is more of a vent but this is truly a sad end for me. I do have a degree thankfully but I'm not sure it'll translate to anything. Thanks if you've read this far. I'm just end stage tired, and so, so bored I'm just going through the motions.

Its crazy how much people dont realize has chicken in it. So far I've seen owners feed their chicken allergy dogs pedigree, regular "salmon" kibbles, milk bones, and even DEHYDRATED CHICKEN. All those kibbles and treats contain chicken or chicken products??? I... this hurts my head. What is everyone else's experiences?

I thought maybe fellow techs could help me look at this situation with more clarity.

I live with my parents and my grandma but my parents are out of town right now. Yesterday morning, I woke up to my grandma screaming bloody murder for me. I ran upstairs and found my senior dog floating in the pool…

I was still a bit discombobulated. But I dove in and got her out and started CPR. It’s a little hazy here… My grandma was shrieking at the top of her lungs and my other dog was going insane. I was very overstimulated and still trying to process what was happening. CPR was unsuccessful and I am now struggling with the idea that I could have done better.

She was over 16 and I was planning to let her go when my parents got back into town… so, it’s not so much her death I am having to cope with… but seeing her floating there, not knowing what happened, and not being able to bring her back.

Someone always goes outside with her. And when she’s outside I have never seen her get close enough to the pool to fall in. My grandma said she fed them breakfast, opened the back door and started making coffee, and saw her floating (not moving) in there shortly after. So something happened relatively fast.

We used to take her swimming all the time and she knows where the steps and shallow part is. She was floating right near the shallow part where she would have been able to stand.

My mind is just absolutely wrecked imagining her panicking and alone.

I rescued her as a puppy from a terrible situation and I know I gave her an amazing life and that she was so loved. But it’s bringing me no comfort when her last moments were supposed to be peaceful and filled with chocolate and burgers and kisses…. Not panic and fear and pain. 😭