Kaukauna Veterinary Clinic Celebrates National Veterinary Technician Week

Dr. David Gagnon

This is Veterinary Technician Appreciation Week.  Kaukauna Veterinary Clinic employs some very skilled and compassionate technicians.  These are men and women who devote themselves to caring for animals in similar, though different, capacities than veterinarians.  Although not being able to diagnose diseases or prescribe medications, they are your pets’ primary caretakers when they’re staying with us.  Technicians are dental hygienists, anesthetists, phlebotomists, x-ray technicians, emergency/triage nurses, parasitologists, laboratory workers, and many more things!

Not only do our techs need these skills, but they will use them on pets who don’t always want to sit still.  The skills and patience required to be a veterinary technician is unmatched.

When your beloved pets are hospitalized, technicians are the ones feeding them, medicating them, walking them, cleaning up after them, and talking to them when they’re hurt or scared.

Veterinarians are the doctors you see in the exam rooms, but so much more goes on behind the scenes.  If not for technicians, our clinic would crumble, or at the very least, slow down to a snail’s pace (don’t ask ME how to run our blood machines).  Not only do they have the medical know-how, and physical ability to hold your pet for blood draws or other procedures, they’re often the ones dealing directly with you, the pet owner, giving take-home instructions after surgeries and other procedures.

Veterinary technicians devote their lives and careers to the health and safety of animals.  I consider myself fortunate to work with such a talented and dedicated group of people.  The next time you see one of our awesome techs, please thank them for all they do.  Not enough can be said for their help!

Madison Area Technical College - Vet Tech Program 

Globe University - Vet Tech Program 

Our Veterinary Technicians

Mark

Nicole

Patty

McKenna

 

Anita

 

Tricia

 

Diane

 

Christy