Something that continues to amaze me is the ingenuity fostered by the veterinary community. Take, for example, the approach to parasitism in ruminants. Small ruminants like sheep and goats are especially vulnerable to the effects of intestinal parasites, because the worm burden increases quickly on the close-grazed pastures on which these animals are raised. However, […]
Thankful for Artificial Insemination
Thanksgiving has been a bit of a somber time for me during these past two years of veterinary school. My family has a habit of forgetting that Canadians celebrate their Thanksgiving in October and always sends me an invite to the annual party. Being seven hours away, I have to graciously decline but there […]
A Field of “Firsts”
One of THE most amazing things I have done in vet school so far was ultrasounding a pregnant ewe. I’ve had the opportunity to participate in some pretty cool procedures and witness a lot of transformative therapies, so I was definitely not expecting this experience to impact me as strongly as it did. We were […]
