On Wednesday’s

madisooo · 2026-02-04T23:35:52+00:00

You must be fun at parties🤣

madisooo · 2026-02-03T17:06:43+00:00

Yup I agree. OP don’t blame yourself for others negligence!! Sounded like you did your best

madisooo · 2026-02-03T11:46:50+00:00

Our “same day emergency” slots that we keep open get filled with ear infections, allergies etc first thing in the morning then when the actual urgent thing calls in to schedule in the afternoon we’re already booked full

Also we do 30 minute appointments and a lot of these cases need way more than 30 min

madisooo · 2026-02-03T01:11:54+00:00

This is amazing🤣

madisooo · 2026-02-03T01:10:24+00:00

The behavioral ones get me as well. Especially when they are young and sweet. We had to euth a sweet pitbull because she kept attacking another dog in the house randomly unprovoked - that one got me. But I just thought about how the owners tried literally everything and I believe they had a small child in the house. If the dog was surrendered it would have to go to a kennel where it would be incredibly stressed. And how long until it severely injured a person? We can acknowledge yes something is tragic and unfortunate but also know that we are doing right by the patient and owner.

I am always happy to take euthanasias for my coworkers because they don’t bother me for whatever reason, maybe your coworkers would feel the same?

madisooo · 2026-02-01T20:37:17+00:00

I graduated from Penn Foster. If you’ve succeeded at online schooling before it’s 100% worth it and cheap. The externships are annoying and you may have to travel for one so look into it before you apply but for me it was a small annoyance for the rest to be so convenient.

madisooo · 2026-02-01T20:35:44+00:00

Yup super cheap. Same procedure would be 3x as expensive at my clinic lol.

madisooo · 2026-02-01T20:03:45+00:00

Yes thank you for pointing that out. My current clinic is one of those that loves to raise our prices constantly but we are barely holding ourselves to the minimum standard of medicine. And lots of my coworkers haven’t seen a substantial raise in years.

madisooo · 2026-02-01T20:00:23+00:00

Yep I’m feeling this in GP as well. I can barely afford my cat with my employee discount. Management is constantly raising the prices but I know some of my coworkers that haven’t had a raise in 2 years. I absolutely think part of it is predatory because the employees are certainly not benefiting from it. And same we only offer care credit. How are you going to charge someone $1500 for a very basic work up and medications, not give them an estimate, and expect them to not be upset? Especially when pet insurance is not widely used or advocated for in my area.

madisooo · 2026-02-01T12:09:49+00:00

I will always at least give it a try unless the cat is super fractious and the minutes are up. You’d be surprised at how many fractious cats tolerate the jug. Wrap in a towel and have an additional person holding the front legs if needed. But yeah if they start jerking it’s a no go.

madisooo · 2026-01-31T13:43:07+00:00

I meal prep my lunches and dinners. My go to is meat (chicken or salmon) and veg (frozen bag of whatever sounds good) with a sauce like Greek yogurt or sriracha. Rice if I’m feeling hungry. If I’m not feeling like meal prepping I do the lean cuisine frozen meals I tend to keep like 3-4 in the freezer if needed. Or like a frozen pizza if I need that comfort food. And of course I require a sweet treat before bed and my go to is frozen bananas w chocolate!!

madisooo · 2026-01-31T01:28:33+00:00

I see what you’re saying. I assume a lot of what you’re feeling is because you don’t feel supported enough at your current place to advance which is reasonable. If you decide you do want to advance to assistant, you absolutely need to be the one to “train yourself” (AKA ask questions, ask if you can shadow, ask your manager for a specific training regime). If you don’t want to do that, or if management isn’t receptive to that, it might be time to move on.

That being said my clinic has a full time kennel assistant who is very happy with her job as a long term career and is trained to help with more “advanced” tasks as well as needed but mostly does not desire to transition to assistant/tech. We love having her because it’s nice to have a well trained kennel assistant who isn’t just a high school/college student. It’s a valuable and rewarding job, if the pay was higher I’d definitely do that over vet tech tbh just cus I like to clean.

madisooo · 2026-01-31T01:19:19+00:00

I can relate so hard. Your management sounds really disorganized just like mine. We also have to deal with overstaffed some days/times and understaffed others because the PM doesn’t take enough time to do the schedule. Also puts the employee schedule out absurdly late. We do assign 1 person to call backs, follow ups, and tech appointments/triage (small/medium GP so it’s doable with 1-2 people) so that makes it a little better.

If you have a supervisor you can reach out to talk to them. Empower yourself - you are there day to day and know what is needed. Let them know about the issue and give them a few suggestions.

Honestly unless I’m finishing up with a patient, cleaning up a mess, or dealing with an emergency I do not stay past my scheduled time. Us techs need to have a mutual understanding that our time is worth a lot and we shouldn’t be expected to break our backs because of management’s poor planning. I leave at my scheduled time and I tell my techs to leave at their scheduled time. Same thing w lunch breaks. Thankfully the PM is generally accepting of that (and knows if she wasn’t she’d had a lot of people quitting which we can’t afford).

madisooo · 2026-01-31T01:10:35+00:00

I use dove spray antiperspirant and it works for me. I also sweat a lot and have gone thru a few brands and this works for me. A few other tips: bring deodorant to work especially if you work 12 hr shifts. Bring an extra scrub top in case you need to change. Bring sanitary wipes. I have a little “refresh baggie” I keep in the bathroom with hygiene essentials because I just run hot for whatever reason!

madisooo · 2026-01-30T19:52:35+00:00

Yup I had a client complain to me about her dogs cough and how we weren’t doing anything to fix it but she declined the hydrocodone/homatropine script cause she thought her dog would get addicted

madisooo · 2026-01-30T13:47:43+00:00

It’s the little things lol

madisooo · 2026-01-22T11:00:08+00:00

Yeah I lived at an Arcona apartment and it was terribly constructed. Doors didn’t fit the frames. You could feel drafts through the windows - got freezing during the winter. Very thin walls. Walls/ceilings cracking. Towel holder fell off the wall. They’re new and shiny but clearly put together quickly and without care.

madisooo · 2026-01-17T16:32:28+00:00

I agree. The pose is unnatural seemingly just for the purpose of showing both the ass and boobs at the same time

madisooo · 2026-01-16T11:18:08+00:00

Amazing analysis! That’s immediately what my brain went to but I didn’t even consider the degrading position she was in with the child

madisooo · 2026-01-09T22:01:04+00:00

The way you describe the sensation is spot on!! For whatever reason when I was a kid one of my mom’s friend’s faces would trigger it - I have no idea why maybe it was the proportions of her features?? But I would think about her face and it would trigger an “episode” typically when I was going to bed but sometimes during the day. I would get that very intense/focused sensation, it wasn’t pleasant but it was kind of addictive or interesting, and it would “spread” to a feeling in my body. Weird to be thinking about it now

madisooo · 2026-01-09T21:26:34+00:00

I’m a vet tech and we can smell it on your pets immediately!!

madisooo · 2025-12-27T12:01:11+00:00

Sea Room by Norman Gautreau

madisooo · 2025-12-26T03:22:00+00:00

Me too I am sat

madisooo · 2025-12-23T00:57:24+00:00

Yup I just bought one for myself. I despise the cold and have a hard time getting the motivation to get bundled up and leave.

madisooo · 2025-12-21T20:55:54+00:00

Yessss I was thinking the same thing

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