This may sound absurd but, I pay for a vet visit, not a vet tech visit. I'd expect to see & talk to the "vet" not the vet tech. At our vet, the doc is very hands on, he does the taking of the temps, the blood work, the ear swabs, the stitch removal, the injections, all of it (oh no wait, the techs do weigh our furkids, but that's it). In all the years we've been with our vet, it's always been this way, I've only sent he vet techs holds the animals while he performs these procedures. Now as far as the vet techs doing these things so they can learn, I wouldn't mind if they took our furkids temp or swabbed the ears, but anything more than that, I'm sorry, I want the "vet" doing it. I know the techs have to learn somewhere, somehow on some living furkid, I just would rather it not be on ours. I know, that sounds terrible and maybe I'm absurd, but this is just how I feel. Now I'll roll up my sleeve and let a tech take blood from me at a hospital or doctors office no problem, but when it comes to my kids, (skin and fur) sorry, I'm very particular about who does what and I don't have a problem letting any doctor know that.
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