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# Veterinary Assistant at Petco

**Location**
: Columbia, Missouri

**Type**
: Full-time

**Level**
: entry

**Posted**
: Sep 4, 2026

## Description

Petco is hiring a Veterinary Assistant to provide medical care and customer support in a Vetco Total Care hospital. The role includes greeting clients, obtaining vital signs and histories, assisting with appointments, surgery, dentistry, and euthanasia, restraining patients, processing laboratory samples, administering medications and fluids, monitoring patients under anesthesia, scheduling appointments, educating clients, maintaining records, and keeping the hospital clean. The position requires direct supervision from veterinarians and veterinary technicians, offers no immediate supervisory duties, and prefers at least one year of veterinary practice or relatable animal care experience.

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