I strongly oppose allowing non-LVTs to place catheters.  There are already enough lay people pretending to be veterinarians:  some humane society staff, employees at feed stores, pet store staff, some wild-life rehabilitators, Dr. Google, etc. I am still repaying student loans.  Many LVTs have student debt.  Let me give my debt to a lay person and they can place catheters.  It is undermining to veterinary medicine to allow any Joe-Schmoe to insert catheters without medical training.  Why then go to school?  Why have LVTs?  Why have vets?  Why have standards?  Shoot, IV drug users can place catheters, I bet. Perhaps I will get an active heroin addict place a catheter in me when I go to the hospital for an illness?  Without proper training-- which a degree guarantees-- there is no regulation or set standard of care.