10/20/2026
Happy Vet Tech Week 2026 to our amazing veterinary technicians who show up each day to care for our patients, our clients, support our doctors and teams, and keep the clinic and veterinary medicine moving! We appreciate them every day.
Why Veterinary Technicians Deserve This Recognition?
Talk to a vet tech about their shift, and you rarely get a short answer. One minute they're drawing blood. Ten minutes later they're watching an anesthetic monitor, elbow deep in a surgery, or on the phone walking a scared pet owner through what happens next. A lot of that work never makes it in front of a client. But a patient's outcome depends on it just as much as anything happening at the surgical table.
Getting CVT credentialed isn't quick either. It usually means an associate degree or higher in veterinary technology, a national exam, and real clinical hours before anyone's handed a patient on their own. That level of training deserves recognition beyond one week each year.
Vet Tech Week gives us a chance to pause and celebrate our technicians while recognizing their efforts within the clinical settings.
