I asked our vet this morning whether she thought our pets somehow understood that we thought we were doing them a kindness when we brought them into the vet to be euthanized. I thought it was mostly a rhetorical question at the time, a way of stalling, a way to avoid crying, which I hadn't thought I was going to do but did anyway, and a way, maybe, to beg for absolution.
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The Dog Zombie has an interesting post discussing women in vet med--and why there are so many.
If you get the Smithsonian Channel on your TV, then tune in at 8 pm this Sunday (January 10th) to watch the program Zoo Vets: Claws, Paws, and Fins.
T. Boone Pickens. Never heard of the guy till I moved to OK. Some gazillionare that donates a shitload of money to Oklahoma State in Stillwater.
For quite a while I was aware of two blogs written by vet techs, and recently I discovered a couple of more written by veterinarians or vet students: