I'm doing the annonamously due to the aggressive nature of some of the LVT posts strongly against this petition.  I am in support of this petition.  As a pet owner and an LVT who has worked in many practices as first an assistant and then an LVT, I believe this task to be a very trainable one.  The practrice I work is understaffed for LVTs.  It is hard for us to schedule an LVT on every shift.  There are many times an unlicensed but trained individual has to place an IV catheter.  Our practice is very busy and the doctors don't have time and are actually not as good as the unlicensed assistants.  We are always trying to find and train for LVTs but it is a slow process.  The only place we feel bottle necked is IV catheter placement. Everything else that we depend on LVTs to do can be done by the Vets if necessary.  For the Vets to do IV catheters is just very unproductive.  And IV cath placement is no more invasive than blood draws and blood draws are allowed by assistants.  Not to mention, the other LVTs in our practice including myself received our degree online and were trained how to place IV catheters by the same Vets that would train unlicensed assistants.  Seems odd that we allow them to train online LVTs in hospital but not assistants.  In a perfect world course if an LVT is available then they should be doing IV catheters but if one is not then I think an assistant that is trained by Vets should be allowed to.