Do techs actually commonly do euthanasias there?
It's definitely always the vet around here. The one time a tech was actually present when i was there for a euth was when I was waiting for my mom to come when we had Rosey euthanized. I was offered a tech to sit with me, but declined, so they just came by and looked in the window every so often. Oh, and when I had Harley waiting for my dad to get there, but that was only when I brought her to the back room for oxygen.
It's definitely always the vet around here. The one time a tech was actually present when i was there for a euth was when I was waiting for my mom to come when we had Rosey euthanized. I was offered a tech to sit with me, but declined, so they just came by and looked in the window every so often. Oh, and when I had Harley waiting for my dad to get there, but that was only when I brought her to the back room for oxygen.
Then you get the occasional pet who is dropped off for a euth and their owners don't stay, so a tech is always involved in those - and emotionally, those are always, always the hardest ones for me.
Thankfully it's not something that happens on a daily basis. We might have a bad day where we do multiple in one day, and then we can go weeks without doing any. If we have multiple, we try to rotate who's involved in them so it's not one person getting smacked with it all.