10/20/2026
🐾 Happy National Veterinary Technician Week! 🐾
Behind every wagging tail, purring patient, and successful recovery is a veterinary technician who gives their heart to this profession every single day. 🩺🐶🐱
From drawing blood, running lab work, taking X-rays, monitoring anesthesia, assisting in surgery, administering medications, and caring for hospitalized patients to comforting nervous pets, answering questions, cleaning kennels, holding paws, and supporting worried pet parents — our days are filled with so much more than most people ever see.
We celebrate the happy moments, but we also carry the hard ones. We comfort patients who are scared, celebrate the smallest improvements, and give love to those who need it most. We get scratched, bitten, peed on, and covered in things we probably don’t want to talk about 😂 — all because we love what we do.
This profession takes compassion, patience, dedication, teamwork, and a whole lot of heart. Some days are exhausting, some cases break our hearts, but every day we show up for the animals who depend on us. ❤️
To our veterinary technicians at Hillcrest Animal Hospital and every vet tech out there: THANK YOU! Thank you for the long days, the extra effort, the countless tasks, the gentle touches, and the love you pour into every patient. So much of what you do happens behind the scenes, but it never goes unnoticed. 🐾
Here’s to the ones who do it all, speak for those who can’t speak for themselves, and love every patient like their own. You are valued, you are appreciated, and veterinary medicine wouldn’t be the same without you!
