It shouldn’t come as any surprise that where there are vet students, there are pets. Dogs, cats, pocket pets, birds, reptiles; I think just about any pet you are allowed to have, there is a vet student that has brought it along with them or acquired it along the way while in vet school. […]
Out of my Element
While driving to a farm call with my externship mentor, I was getting drilled with questions about the various causes of lameness in a horse, reasons for bloat in a cow, and the numerous toxic plants affecting livestock. Aside from me hating being put on the spot, I realized that I did not know quite […]
Scenes from Large Animal Emergency
I recently had a clinical rotation in large animal surgery. The rotation is designed so that we do a hands-on lab session in the middle of the day on each weekday, and we are then on call from 5:00 PM – 8:00 AM of every weeknight and on call all weekend. The lab sessions covered […]
