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While in veterinary school you have a community practice rotation to practice “real life” medicine. During this rotation is when we learned to do spays and neuters. Most of the dogs and cats are humane society animals that were getting adopted. In fact, many of us adopted these pets ourselves. My parents adopted the dogContinue reading “My First Spay”

I decided I wanted to be a veterinarian when I was 12 or 13 years old. I was at the barn and one of the draft horses was colicky. The veterinarian was there and slid a needle into the 1200 lbs animal’s abdomen. As she spun the needle a couple of drops of clearish fluidContinue reading “The Beginning”