10/21/2026
Special message to everyone who has been in the field or is currently in the field, not just our special SFAMC vet techs: You all do so much for our patients and their families, the doctors, and the entire team here at our hospital. Some of this is seen and appreciated but so much of it goes on behind the scenes, unwitnessed. You welcome the new puppies and kittens with treats and snuggles. You give the shy animals space and help them feel comfortable in the exam rooms. You make it look easy drawing blood, placing FreeStyle Libres, giving injections and subQ fluids in front of amazed pet parents on 3kg animals. You field all of their worried emails and questions, help them fill medications and double check that they are doing things correctly. When they are hospitalized, you take time to get different food options and warm up the chicken and canned food in case that gets them to take the first few bites. You build cardboard castles for them. You give them clean soft bedding or privacy curtains in the ICU, and play soothing music and videos for them on the ipad. You care for our patients when they are nervous, scared, hurting, and sometimes too sick to recover. You never let them sit in soiled bedding, and you give them dignity by cleaning them up when they can’t. You are there for them on their worst days and support their families through difficult moments. You celebrate with them when they finally take their first few bites of food, take their first steps after major surgery, or when they finish their last chemo treatments and get to say they are in remission. You also sit with them after euthanasias and make beautiful paw prints, clip hair, and send them resources to help them deal with their grief. The doctors in this hospital could not help a single animal without you. You anticipate what the doctors need, keep things moving when we are always running behind, and manage to be there for one another as well. You do all of this even on the days when YOU may be having a difficult day, or one of your pets is not feeling their best.
