Leonca

Sorry. I knew there were a few other vet techs here, so I didn't realize it might be confusing.

I am a Registered Veterinary Technician. When I joined a few years ago I asked around and everyone was fine with me sharing my experiences.

She was outside with her kennel-mate and I thought I could save time by doing it out there before I brought them back inside. They often split up and run in different directions when you have two of them together. I work at a vet clinic, if that's no...

More canine patients: Bella and Bella 2, same owner. Wonder how complicated that makes training. IV. Unsure if that stands for intravenous, 4, or Ivy.

Today I learned not to try to medicate a patient outside while it is jumping up and down in a puddle of its own urine. A big dog can splash that stuff right in your face. Still not as bad as the time I tried to clean a broken kennel drain full of sew...

When you hand someone a kit for collecting a fecal sample at home, get a face in response, and remember that handling poop isn't a part of the average person's day.

When you have a dream in which you get someone to stop annoying you by threatening to show them pictures from your textbooks.

My favorite is Sums up my reaction to so much that goes on in medicine.

My new record for weirdest patient name came into the clinic recently for grooming- a dog named Little ******. I don't like to swear, so I'm glad I didn't have to say his name while he was with us.

I just remembered this one from over a year ago. Really minor, but it made me cringe at the time. I needed to get a weight on a Pomeranian that had come into the clinic, so put her on the small scale. She was trying to jump off, so I put my hands aro...

Client #1 is bringing in a box full of purebred bulldog puppies for vaccines. I bring a male pug mix up to the front desk to return to his owner after boarding. Client #2 turns from talking to Client#1- “Oh, is that their mommy?”

This is, hands down, the story that made me laugh the most.

In high school I went through a period where I thought Spanish words were really neat. I took the Spanish for lioness, leona, and added a c to create a name that would have a chance at being distinct online.

A client with a little boy came in to get their dog vaccinated. The vet's 100lb Labrador retriever wandered up to check out the newcomers. The boy's eyes grew wide and he said, "Wow, look at the huge Beagle!"

And I thought the time the vet clinic's toilet overflowed and we used up most of our clean towels to contain the mess was bad!

Biggest fail- Elderly couple in for routine check-up on a small breed dog. I decided to try to get a nail trim done while they wait for the doctor and have the old lady hold the dog. It squirms and a claw practically unzips the skin on the back of he...

Of course - it also was the most pungent GI bleed poop you could imagine, so the entire unit smelled like GI bleed for the rest of the night. Is this one of the worse smells when dealing with human patients? I once dealt with a dog that was dying a...

A family friend recently named her baby Simeon, after a man in the Bible. I can only hope he doesn’t accumulate a lot of monkey-themed nicknames.

A good 'ol multipurpose tool.

If you ask your boss to let you have some decades-old unused hemostats because you think they will make a nice combination decoration/tool at home (they found a home hanging from the hip bone of my cat skeleton).

One of my favorite patient stories was the time I almost scared a patient and myself to death. The vet hospital where I used to work runs a rescue for animals pulled from shelters or surrendered by owners. The patient was an 8 year old female rescue ...

Yeah it can get messy, like the client who wanted a home euthanasia of a medium sized dog on her bed. I think she was too sad to mind the mess though.

These are hilarious! Kind of makes me wish the vets I've worked with weren't so bare-bones on the notes they were required to keep.

When your dad asks what you did at work today, and when you tell him his reaction is a mixture of and (he shares my sense of humor, but not my exposure to gross medical things). when you want some entertainment during dinner, and pull up "what is y...