How do I handle managing a vet practice when I miss caring for the animals?

You got into this to care for animals, and now it is schedules, staff drama, and the same pay under the vet. The part that fed your heart got buried under the part that drains it. That resentment is fair. You did not sign up to referee people. But the practice runs on you now. Every animal that gets seen on time, every tech who stays instead of burning out, happens because you hold it together. That is care too, just further from the exam table than you would like. Keep your hands on animals when you can. Take a few appointments, help in the back. And if the pay does not match the load, that is a real conversation to have, plainly, with the vet. Missing the animals is one problem; being undervalued is another, and you are allowed to name both.