What nutritional training do vet techs receive?
Vet techs receive about the same amount of nutritional training as many veterinarians–very little. Of course this will vary from program to program. If I remember correctly, one day during classes we had a sales rep come in from a large pet food company who talked to us for about an hour about nutrition. That was about the extent of our training. Most veterinary technicians who graduate go to work in a veterinary hospital and never learn anything else about nutrition except what they learn on the job from sales reps who come to visit. Some veterinarians do the same thing. I’ve attended numerous continuing education classes on pet nutrition and after several years found myself beating my head against the wall. The same information was being repeated over and over again. A light bulb went off in my head that during all this time I wasn’t learning anything useful about pet nutrition at all but instead was learning how to convince pet owners to purchase the recommended products. Ugh! Now
