How It Started

Ever since I was a little kid, I have wanted to be a veterinarian. When I was little I remember wrapping up my dog, Lady, in white pipe thread tape and saying she had a ‘boo-boo’.  The summer of 2014 I had the opportunity to shadow the only actual large animal vet around my area, and I loved it. I was literally his shadow all summer long in surgeries, farm calls, and anything else we did, it made me want to become a vet even sooner than I had before. Recently, the only times I have been able to go to the vet office was when I had an animal to take up there myself, and the last time it was to find out our dog Annie had cancer. Normally though, it is just for routine shots or to get a cat or dog fixed so they cannot have about fifty babies running around for dad to fuss about.

I have been raised on a farm, which has gave me plenty of animals to take care of, not including the ones I picked up, which have happened quite often since I was about eight. I have took care of our cows by vaccinating, delivering stuck calves, trimming lame cows with overgrown hooves, ear tagging, and worming them on a twice a year basis. In the winter, it gets very muddy wherever you feed at and smaller calves are very bad for getting scares, which is basically diarrhea times ten that can kill them if left untreated, depending on the size and health of the calf, anywhere from 1 week to a month is crucial to treat that with scare oblets(diarrhea stopper and antibiotics).

I also feed for my neighbors when they are gone and I usually end up having to treat one of their animals while they are gone since animals are accident prone. For example, about three weeks ago, my neighbors dog attacked their goat and when she told me about it this is what she said, “eh, it’s nothing, it will just have a few scars on its head.” Well, whenever I got out there, it had an abscess on his neck the size of a tennis ball, its ear was hanging a good two inches lower than its other ear, and its cheek was swollen out, all from infection that had set up from four days prior. Luckily, five days of Penicillin shots and a mixture of alcohol and iodine cleared the infection up.