I do not believe an assistant has the formal education that a Licensed Veterinary Technician has. LVT’s are devalued and underpaid enough already. If the laws keep changing to allow assistants to do everything only an LVT has the paid education and knowledge to do, than why did we as LVT spend thousands of dollars and years of time to gain the knowledge needed to obtain our licenses. I just do not agree with allowing assistants to be placing IVC’s , or to do anything that we spent all the time and money earning our licenses.