Can you become a Veterinarian or a Vet Tech without a strong Science background?

After being in college for 2 years now I’ve decide to switch my focus. I’m thinking of becoming a vet tech. I have become the animal lady to my family. they come to me for consultation when they are having behavioral or sometimes medical problems with their pets because i read up on things like that just for fun. I have taught my dogs and parrots several tricks and have successful diagnosed at least 2 of them after reading up and checking with my vet.

They believe I would be best as a vet but I’m not good at science. They want things like a bachelors in microbiology and things like that. definitely not my strong suit. I’m better in the liberal arts area. writing, computers, and things of that nature. But I’m loosing interest in my Mas Communications degree. The only area I’ve found myself particularly good at is the area of genetics. I find it interesting and have studied a lot on dog genetics for fun. I worked through high school doing what some have called a tone downed version of a vet tech. I was called a kennel operator at a private animal clinic/boarding house.

My duties included prepping for surgeries, cleaning up after surgeries, cleaning the kennels, feeding and giving water to the boarding animals, taking them out individually to go to the bathroom. hosing down the big dog kennels, checking on the sick cats and making sure they hadn’t pulled out their ivs, doing the laundry and wiping down and sweeping examination rooms.

Even though it was a lot of grueling work sometimes I liked the job and the dogs were always happy to see me. I’ve read that becoming a vet tech can vary state to state. I live in Ohio. Other than that I haven’t been able to see what kind of coursework a vet tech program would entail. Does anyone know?

Also, just as an afterthought, is it possible to be a veterinarian without having a strong science background beforehand? Could there be a way to try and depend more on genetics over other sciences?