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Monster Masquerade Adult Night
Don’t miss our most popular Adult Night of the year! Enjoy trivia, a costume contest, beastly bevvies and more!
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Our #NationalVeterinaryTechnicianWeek celebration continues! Join us all week long as we highlight our dedicated registered vet techs. Today we’re featuring Registered Veterinary Technician Steven Thurston. Read on to learn more about Steven and join us in thanking him for all he does!
✨Time at DZCA: Two months
✨ Favorite DZCA animal and why: Dwayne the Rock Python because she was the first snake I have ever intubated.
✨ Most rewarding story or case at DZCA: Dwayne the Rock Python because she had an amazing recovery after a successful surgery.
✨ What makes working at DZCA special for you: The wide variety of species and animals I get to help provide medical care to.
✨ Fun fact: I like to fly fish.
In celebration of #NationalVeterinaryTechnicianWeek, we’re featuring our hard-working registered vet techs all week long. Today we’re celebrating Registered Veterinary Technician Rachel Parchem!
✨Time at DZCA: I just started August 5, 2024!
✨ Favorite DZCA animal and why: Salma the yellow-backed duiker. Salma receives weekly cold laser therapy for mobility issues, and it`s a joy to provide this care. I get to see her weekly for treatment and feed her some snacks. I enjoy learning something new about her personality every time I visit.
✨ Most rewarding story or case at DZCA: We were working with Animal Care Specialists (ACS) on obtaining voluntary greater one-horned rhino blood and I was able to lend my support to assist ACS in getting this sample. It was very rewarding to see the relationship the ACS staff have with their animals and to be able to work together to obtain this voluntarily!
✨ What makes working at DZCA special for you: I`m proud to be part of the DZCA team because of the high standard of care that we provide for the animals. People are proud to be working at DZCA and it`s amazing to be on a team that strives to be leaders in the field of zoo veterinary medicine.
✨ Fun fact: I enjoy collecting and building Lego sets in my free time.
Thank you for all you do, Rach! Stay tuned this week as we continue to highlight our dedicated RVT team!
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It`s #NationalVeterinaryTechnicianWeek, and we want to show our gratitude to our incredible team of registered vet techs! Their skill, passion, and commitment to our animals make a world of difference. Today, we`re highlighting RVT Jessy Long. Read more about Jessy below and join us in thanking her for all she does!
✨Time at DZCA: I’ve worked at DZCA for 3.5 years
✨ Favorite DZCA animal and why: My favorite animal at the Zoo is Yisun, the Prezewalski horse. I worked with her for voluntary blood draws, and she stole my heart with her sassy personality!
✨ Most rewarding story or case at DZCA: My most rewarding case here has been has been helping to train Yisun to participate in voluntary blood draws. In 2022, I started working with Yisun’s Animal Care Specialists to train voluntary blood draws to monitor her Cushing’s Disease. Since then, we have been successful in drawing blood on her five times, as well as both of her offspring! These behaviors took a lot of work to train, and have been monumental in helping us understand this disease in such a rare species. I am very proud to have been a part of that.
✨ What makes working at DZCA special for you: I love working at DZCA because of the wonderful team of people I get to work with. We’re a group of very dedicated people and work well together to achieve very high-level medicine.
✨ Little know or fun fact about you: My favorite movie is The Lion King!
