10/20/2026
Celebrating RVT Month: Get to Know Emily!
October is Registered Veterinary Technician (RVT) Month, and we’re celebrating the incredible professionals who make a difference in the lives of pets and their families every day!
This month, we’re shining a spotlight on Emily, one of the amazing members of our team at Southside Animal Clinic! Emily graduated from the Veterinary Technician program at Ridgetown College in 2016 and began working at Southside Animal Clinic in 2020.
What inspired their journey? Emily was drawn to veterinary medicine because she has always been drawn to fixing things but did not want to work with humans LOL!
What do they love most about being an RVT? For Emily, the most rewarding part of the job is continuing her education. Vet med is always evolving and changing, and Emily loves to learn everything there is to learn!
A few fun facts about Emily! Her favourite animals to work with are the oddball animals (especially cats!). Anything that has missing limbs, or missing eyes (fun fact: she owns 3 eyeless cats of her own!), she falls in love with. One skill or part of patient care she especially enjoys is organization. She loves to organize the clinic to be the most efficient as it can be. She also enjoys venipuncture. Outside the clinic, you can find her attending fantasy balls, getting tattoos, reading one of a kind and niche books, and spending time with her husband and children. If Emily was not in veterinary medicine, her dream job would be to be an audio book narrator.
Their advice for future RVTs:
“Find your people. It is the people you work with that make the clinic. Stand 10 toes down for the medicine you want to see in the world and fine the people that help you achieve that.”
We’re grateful to have Emily as part of the Southside Animal Clinic family! Her kindness, knowledge, and commitment to animal health help make a difference every single day. Thank you, Emily, for everything you do for our patients, their families, and our team.
Join us in celebrating Emily and all the dedicated RVTs who make veterinary medicine so special!
Happy RVT Month from your friends at Southside Animal Clinic! 🐾💙