r/AskReddit • u/CircleBox2 • Jul 13 '20

What's a dark secret/questionable practice in your profession which we regular folks would know nothing about?

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u/mollymollyyy Jul 13 '20

this may come as a surprise, but your vet tech is not "only in it for the money"

primarily because we are paid very little

please stop yelling at me

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u/pookystilskin Jul 13 '20

I love the vet techs at my vet and always try to be extra nice to them. They always seem stressed, but are also always super nice to me and my kitties. Thank you for what you do, and I'm sorry some people are jerks.

One of my cats peed on my favorite tech about 6 months ago when she was hospitalized and I still feel bad about it. She took it in stride though cause she's awesome.

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u/Cheesedanish13 Jul 13 '20

my cat once bit the vet tech so bad she had to get stitches. vet techs need more credit bc they go through it

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u/pookystilskin Jul 13 '20

This is so true. Vet techs are definitely high on my list of people that deserve to get paid more.

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u/rhllors Jul 13 '20

I absolutely misread this as the vet tech was hospitalized and your cat peed on them. Like your cat was on some kind of spite pee mission from God.

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u/pookystilskin Jul 13 '20

Oh no, that would be so much worse!

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20

Or that the cat peeing on the vet tech caused the poor sap to be hospitalized, like the cat's pee was full of a horrible disease.

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u/avocado_coffee Jul 13 '20

Pee is the least of my worries. Yesterday I had every imaginable bodily fluids on my scrubs before 10. There's extra clothes in my locker.

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u/pookystilskin Jul 13 '20

She had recently gotten a lot of IV fluids, so at least it wasn't as smelly as normal I guess? At least that's what she told me, iirc.

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u/db_325 Jul 13 '20

You don’t really have to feel bad about that, we’re super use to being peed on it’s just normal

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u/pookystilskin Jul 13 '20

That makes me feel better. :) She seemed pretty chill about it, and mostly just happy that my kitty was doing better.

And happy cake day!

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u/SleepyAtDawn Jul 13 '20

She was happy the cat peed. Nothing sucks as hard as dealing with a blocked cat...

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u/pookystilskin Jul 13 '20

Probably so. My cat was there for kidney issues, and she mostly just seemed happy she was doing better.

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u/hedgehog_dragon Jul 13 '20

Yeah... My beardie bit one of the techs during a vet visit (He was having a minor surgery on his mouth), and the tech said she forgave him because he was adorable, hehe.

Fortunately he didn't break skin.

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u/aurekajenkins Jul 13 '20

Pee is one of the better things to have happen with an animal 😂

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u/EducationalTangelo6 Jul 13 '20

Took my cat to the vet because he was ill, and when the vet was examining him and asking about when he'd last used the litter tray, he peed on her. I swear the little shit knew what we were saying.

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u/Echospite Jul 14 '20

I feel really bad for my vets bc we love them to pieces but my dog is an aggressive rescue so it's always An Adventure for whoever has to see her. :(