Hello!
On Wednesday November 18, 2015 I went to Willow Street CTC and got to experience what a vet assistant does on a day to day basis. The purpose of going to CTC was because we were learning about spaying and neutering as well as dental care and we wanted to see how it was done in real life. We wanted to learn how the procedure was done and the before and after of the surgery. Prior to learning about this we learned about patient history and TPR for animals. We got to experience this by seeing the charts that are filled out for the animals before, during, and after surgery and we got to see how they take the vital signs of animals their animals while in surgery and after.

This experience related to our Vet Science class because everything that we learned all related to what we learned in class. We were able to relate things they were doing in the vet assistant program to the vet science program at Pequea. In class we talk about veterinarian places and what they would do  everyday and what kind of problems they would face while working and we got to experience these kinds of things in real life at CTC.

From this experience I learned that it is very important to take your schooling seriously when being a veterinarian. There are a lot of tasks that you may not want to do like sweeping the floors and cleaning up but you have to do that if you want to be able to do your job successfully. I learned that its important to care for your animals and make sure they get all necessary things done in order to have a healthy and happy pet. I learned that you may not be able to see everything thats wrong with your dog. For example, one dog needed x-rays in order to see that it had no ball and socket joint in its femur.