Month: April 2021

Sienna (fka Noelia- how stupid is that name? Seriously.) was my 3rd year spay dog. We met in the junior surgery kennel area in December 2011. I walked in an excited but nervous student, as I was about to assess my first ever patient for surgery. She was already waiting, a boisterous, approximately 45 lb… Continue reading Sienna Bean

Some days, work is hard. Every pet might be sick on a given day. For some of those pets, there is nothing you can do except to help them move on (or provide the guidance their family needs to say, “good-bye,” with someone else’s help); the world doesn’t care how special the pet is to… Continue reading A little bit of gratitude

Last summer, we had a rising third year vet student work at the clinic for a couple of months. She decided to enter clinics early and chose to schedule an externship for two weeks at our hospital during this time. Those two weeks ended on Friday. As she was leaving, I wished her well with… Continue reading Clinical year flashbacks

I know I’ve said before that training Rook and Magic is a current work in progress. Today is a perfect example of that. When they are together, they have zero impulse control and less than zero recall. In the moment, everything was just chaos. I didn’t see everything happening or take note of all of… Continue reading Rookie and Magic take their show across the road