WHEN YOU DISAPPEAR FROM TUMBLR FOR 4 YEARS AND THEN YOU SUDDENLY MAKE A POST
And your audience is like,
Y'all... it has been a minute! One dog and one pandemic later, and suddenly this feed has been MIA for a few years! But 4yearsofvetschool is back and accepting new entries from students like you.
Congrats to all the new students who found out that they have been accepted to vet school this year! And if you didn't get in or were waitlisted, stay stong! Luck favors the determined ;)
Much love,
4yearsofvetschool
When a dog comes in for its annual updates
And your tech hands you five vaccines,
Re-reading your study notes 90 seconds before the exam starts
Where interns rank in the totem pole of case decision-making
When people incorrectly label their dog as a “service animal”
No, just because you want your dog to sit with you on the airplane and don’t want to pay your apartment’s pet rent doesn’t mean he is a “service animal!” And an emotional support animal, a therapy animal, and a service animal are ALL. DIFFERENT. THINGS.
This is the one time I will encourage you to use Google!
Veterinary Dentistry
How you think it will go,
But then you break a root,
Job searching after vet school
When I compare my speed in surgery to that of our senior doctors
When you suddenly realize this is the year you take the NAVLE
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When an owner swears the pet won’t bite
When you try to take a cat’s temperature
And the cat is like,
When a mosquito lands on your pet
We should give ourselves a little more credit as veterinarians
I don’t know about you, but I am starting to think that we as veterinarians do not give ourselves enough credit for what we do. Not to say be belittle ourselves, but a lot of things we do as “routine” are actually pretty amazing. Here’s what we should be saying instead!
What we say: “I spayed a cat today.”
What we SHOULD be saying: “I just prevented thousands of new shelter euthanasias and homeless pets.”
What we say: “The mast cell tumor was a grade I, and it was completely excised during surgery.”
What we SHOULD be saying: “I just cured this dog of cancer.”
What we say: “I was able to resuscitate the patient after 2 minutes of CPR.”
What we SHOULD be saying: “I brought a dog back from the dead today.”
Also acceptable: “I stared Death in the face today and said, ‘You can’t take this one, motherf***er.'”
What we say: “I finally convinced that breeder to stop recommending raw diets!”
What we SHOULD be saying: “I just performed a f***ing MIRACLE!”
C’mon guys, give credit where credit is due... to yourselves! :)
Much love, 4yearsofvetschool
Going through large animal rotations when you only want to do small animal
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When clients come to you only after trying Googled home remedies
Things clients have tried before coming into the clinic: 1.) Garlic, coconut oil, and hydrogen peroxide put into her dog's ear for a suspect ear infection. This wound up causing a severe head tilt and pain for over a week before she presented her dog for an otic exam. 2.) Garlic and black walnut orally for flea prevention. (For those not in the know, garlic is toxic to dogs. Black walnut can also be dangerous, depending on type and dose ingested). Spoiler alert, the dog still had fleas and flea allergy dermatitis. 3.) Owners gave Advil to her dog for 3 days for hind limb paralysis. This unfortunately resulted in acute kidney failure for the dog. Remember, NEVER give human medicines to your pets without first consulting your veterinarian! Human anti-inflammatories like Advil and Aleeve have very small therapeutic windows in animals, and even small doses can cause severe harm. 4.) Holy water. I'm just going to leave this one alone. 5.) Cedar oil, lavender oil, or pepermint oil for fleas and ticks. 6.) Raw or homemade diets which are not based on any standardized or nutritionally complete recipes. I don't personally recommend raw diets for any pets, as they can potentially increase the risk of food-borne illness in pets and people. Homemade diets, while not my preferred choice for pets, can be nutritionally complete and relatively safe, however, it is recommended that you consult a veterinary nutritionist prior to combining ingredients for your pet. This is to ensure you are meeting their underlying protein, calcium, and other nutrient profiles for your pet's age, breed, and life stage. Always consult with your veterinarian prior to drastically changing your pet's diet, or if you have any questions about any diet(s) you are considering for your pet (homemade, raw, commercial, or other). 7.) Purposefully adding dirt or rocks to their dog's food to simulate contamination they might get from eating "wild animals." Just... please don't. 8.) Vegan diets for cats. Which are obligate carnivores. NO. This is not meant to point fault at owners who are truly well-meaning at heart. However, it is meant to raise awareness that not everything you read online, hear from your breeder, or see on Facebook, is true. Please trust your family veterinarian, who has been through years of training, lectures, continuing education, and schooling to be better able to serve you and your pet. Have a medication question? Ask your vet. Concerned that the flea/tick medicine you have been told to use could harm your pet? Ask your vet. Want to make a homemade diet because the pet food industry scares you? Ask your vet. Stay safe out there! -4yearsofvetschool
How you feel after necropsy rotation and still have cow gut smell burned into your nostrils
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