Farm Animal Veterinarians Needed

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Farm Animal Veterinarians Needed

zogger

Wed May 02 22:01:23 -0700 2007

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Being a veterinarian is a well paid but tough job, and one that requires a lot of schooling. Most new vets are opting to be pet vets, as opposed to farm animal vets, because the hours are "normal" and you don't need to do a lot of driving to make house-or barn- calls. Health experts say this trend has some societal risks to it, and they want more young people to consider being a farm animal vet as a career. They don't need many more, but they do need them.

.."The American Veterinary Medical Association, a group with about 6,200 food animal vets, estimates the shortage at a relatively small 4 percent. But health officials say even the small gap increases the potential for diseases to go undetected.".....more there

Farm Animal Veterinarians Needed

Uncle Entity

Wed May 02 23:07:08 -0700 2007
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I thought about being a farm animal vegetarian when I was a youngster but they just taste so good...

Don't the farmers take care of everything except the real extreme cases anyway or do the vets make their 'rounds'? Seems like it would be a pretty good job, get to get out of the office a lot and don't have to deal with annoying cat owners calling at 3am...well except going shoulder deep up a cow's ass, that would kind of suck.

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McLurker

Thu May 03 03:31:29 -0700 2007
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How does the money compare? People are willing to pay through the nose for their pets, as they are seen as part of the family. Farmers tend to be more frugal- it's a business, and not a very lucrative one these days. If you can get a position caring for pets such as those ridiculous lapdogs the rich carry I imagine you'd be far better off financially than the farm vets.

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phred14

Thu May 03 05:29:48 -0700 2007
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My brother-in-law is a vet, and he and my sister run a clinic for pets. Yes, they stay in the office and don't drive for house calls, but their hours are too frequently not "normal". Pets have accidents too, and many people tend to treat their pets like children, so "pet medical emergencies" do exist. More aggravating is the owner who observes a pet's malady all day during business hours, and then later in the evening decides, "This has gone on long enough, and can't wait until tomorrow." (and it turned out to be nothing serious, after all)

Incidentally, in some ways veterinary medicine can be more difficult than human medicine. You have to deal with a far wider range of body sizes, types, and reactions - and the patient can't describe symptoms.

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TykeClone

Thu May 03 05:31:09 -0700 2007
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Doctors are vets that can only handle one species.

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rubycodez

Thu May 03 08:18:51 -0700 2007
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some do both men and and that weird creature women

Farm Animal Veterinarians Needed

TykeClone

Sat May 05 10:48:00 -0700 2007
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I went to Iowa State - a big VetMed school - and picked up the joke there.

I was talking with a guy from my town this winter, and his son is going through the VetMed program at Iowa State for the large animal vet program. He said that one of the professors there was kind of excited to have a small town Iowa boy doing that program as it is more and more of a rarity.