Vet here. The lines bt licensed techs, vpas, and vets are still muddy to me. Everyone that seems pro vpa possibility can't seem to tell me where the lines are. As a HVHQ vet, I'm all for more boots on the ground in shelters, more ppl handling different areas so that vets can focus on surgery and medicine. And as corner GP, ditto. However, if I paid all the money to get a vpa degree, took a national test, then carried and paid for my own liability insurance, why wouldn't I want a vet's salary??? If I were an LVT doing 90% of what the vpa does, but receiving 50% of their salary, would I think that was fair? The general idea SOUNDS nice, but it is so unspecific so far that throwing support behind it, no matter how desperate we are for help, seems unwise. Give us better information. Give the prospective applicants better information.
Vet here. The lines bt licensed techs, vpas, and vets are still muddy to me. Everyone that seems pro vpa possibility can't seem to tell me where the lines are. As a HVHQ vet, I'm all for more boots on the ground in shelters, more ppl handling different areas so that vets can focus on surgery and medicine. And as corner GP, ditto. However, if I paid all the money to get a vpa degree, took a national test, then carried and paid for my own liability insurance, why wouldn't I want a vet's salary??? If I were an LVT doing 90% of what the vpa does, but receiving 50% of their salary, would I think that was fair? The general idea SOUNDS nice, but it is so unspecific so far that throwing support behind it, no matter how desperate we are for help, seems unwise. Give us better information. Give the prospective applicants better information.
*former GP, not corner