05/23/2026
This week we celebrated the heart of the ER team — our veterinary assistants. 💙
ER veterinary assistants are the hands holding patients steady during emergencies, the voices comforting worried owners, and the people quietly doing a hundred things behind the scenes to keep everything moving. They work long hours, skip breaks, get covered in fur, slobber, scratches, and sometimes tears — all while continuing to show up with compassion and care every single day.
They help carry the emotional weight of the hardest cases, celebrate the wins with us, and love every patient like their own. From late night emergencies to critical care patients needing constant attention, our assistants are there through it all.
The work is exhausting, emotional, and often unseen, but it matters more than words can say. Our doctors, technicians, clients, and especially our patients are endlessly grateful for everything they do.
Thank you for being the calm in chaos, the comfort during scary moments, and the backbone of emergency medicine. AESC simply would not be what it is without you. 🐾
Happy Veterinary Assistant Week to the incredible assistants at Animal Emergency and Specialty Center of Northwest Arkansas — we appreciate you more than you know. 💙