Vet tech visits

Any experiences with having Vet techs coming to your home to provide medical assistance?

One of my cats may need hospitalization and I'm thinking in terms if she is healthy enough, I'd rather have her at home and have a vet tech come, do checkups and medicate as necessary.

It's not really a service I guess I would pay for. If the cat was well enough to be off of IV fluids then I would medicate it myself. If the cat had to be on IV fluids it's better to stay in a clinic/hospital because the machines are really sensitive and sometimes will constantly beep due to "air in line" or an "occlusion" even if there isn't air or an occlusion and also we had a machine say it gave a cat 250ccs of fluids over night when it really gave the cat the entire bag so I'd rather have professionals watching my cat on a pump then have them at home.

I talked to the vet office and they said that they do have owners who elect to bring in pets for IV for the day and then take them home for the night. Any experience here? Is this more stressful than leaving a cat overnight?

I'm asking this question because the vet office offers hospitalization but it's not staffed from 7pm-7am. And though it's probably fine most of the time, my preference would be for my cat to stay home at night. All of this dependent on if her health allows it of course.

Sorry I have no experience with it, my vet usually just had me bring my pets home overnight and take care of them (since there was no staff overnight) unless they were in ICU and then they would have to go to the emergency clinic for the night.

I talked to the vet office and they said that they do have owners who elect to bring in pets for IV for the day and then take them home for the night. Any experience here? Is this more stressful than leaving a cat overnight?

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I would say it is less stressful for your cat to go home but do they disconnect the line for the night? The only down side is that your cat doesn't get the benefit of having fluids a full 24 hours.

The clinic I work at is the same thing 7:30am-7:00pm and animals are left alone over night. I supposed for my own pets if the animal isn't in critical care IE: could die I would feel okay leaving them on fluids over night at the vet. If the pet really needed to be watched I would go to a vet hospital that had around the clock care.

I can understand your concern at your pet having to be basically home alone at the clinic[it's a concern of mine too!] however if it were a kidney issue/sickness and it was better for the cat to have fluids all day and all night I would feel that it is better for the cat to stay one night alone than not get the full benefit of the fluids. BUT that being said if they sent you home to give fluids SubQ[under the skin] instead of IV overnight then I would say it is better for your cat to be able to go home if you can make sure the cat doesn't take her IV catheter out. I think just being in a new place is stressful enough for them so I would say being able to come home at night would be an okay thing if there was a way to supplement them not being on fluids all night.