Mobile Mutts ~ Tess Zak, Krystal Vogel, and Madalyn Carroll

Will Smith once said that "skill is achieved through practice."  

Tess Zak, Krystal Vogel, and Madalyn Carroll 

As students study to become Veterinarian Assistants, they find that this to be true. Recently, a couple asked LCCTC's Vet Assistant shop to build a dog cart for them.  Even though the students had never tackled a task like this, these future Vet Techs were happy to help.  

Bruce gets his new wheels!

In September of their second year studying to be Vet Assistants,  Krystal Vogel, New Castle junior, and Madalyn Carroll and Tess Zak, Ellwood City juniors, assembled a dog wheel chair for Bruce, an elderly Shetland sheepdog.  After so many years of loving his family, his back legs began to falter. Unable to put the chair together, Bruce's human family called Mrs. Yanak asking for help in assembling the equipment. 

To be able to build the cart and get the dog settled, the Vet Assistant students had to practice for a few days to make it a new skill.  They had to follow the written instructions and DVD instructions to put the wheel chair together. Once they solved the puzzle of assembling the chair, Bruce's "mom and dad" brought him in to could fit the chair to him.

The project taught the students to communicate with clients and to work together. They were careful to correctly complete the wheelchair; they wanted to do their very best for Bruce and his family so that Bruce could walk without pain. 

LCCTC's Vet Tech students are grateful to have been chosen for the project. It gave them such a sense of accomplishment to finish the work, and help Bruce and his people who desperately needed it.