The Dog Zombie

Over on Animal Science Review , Austin J. Bouck just posted his paper, Do organic animal operations encourage management decisions that nega...

Antibiotic resistance is growing, and we’ve all heard that doctors should prescribe fewer antibiotics. But the bulk of antibiotic use in the...

Day 8 was not like the other days. My rotation-mate Delilah and I signed up to spend the day assisting with embryo collection at a farm that...

Day 7. Just me and Dr. Gray (my favorite doctor to ride with). He blasted out of the clinic at high speed, announcing that we were extremely...

Day 6. Another herd check. It’s becoming routine. To be fair, I tend to end up riding with the clinicians who do herd checks, because I want...

Day 5. I was refreshed after a weekend of sleeping 13 hours a night (still catching up after my exhausting small animal surgery rotation the...

Day 4. Friday! I was hugely looking forward to having an actual weekend off, with no responsibilities in the hospital for the first time in ...

Surgery: Get yelled at if you hold your hands below your waist, even for half a second, while you are sterile Ambulatory: Perform surgeri...

Day 3. I signed up to ride with Dr. Cripi, just him and me. I was hopeful that I would get to do more hands on stuff when I was not competin...

Day 2 of my Ambulatory rotation. Still raining. I rode with Dr. Cole and one other student. First we visited a lovely hobby farm, meaning...

The first day of my ambulatory (food animal medicine) rotation, I got horribly lost on the way to the clinic, which is about an hour from my...

(Continued from The Dairy Welfare Farm Tour, part 1 .) We pulled up at the farm where Dr. Mulain performs a weekly herd check every Tuesd...

I woke up at 6 am, and it felt luxuriously late after my 5:30 am wake up the previous morning. This was the morning of the second of my two ...

Me: So I’m trying to schedule this dairy farm welfare elective, but the day all the interested students are free to do it, the faculty memb...

Instead of blogging, I have been shovelling snow. And sleeping off being sick. Also maybe there was some studying in there too. But I am ral...

I am plowing through flash cards for my upcoming large animal medicine/surgery exam. Current favorite card: Q: Best time to castrate a lam...

Recently we had a lecture from Dr. Gray on production medicine. Before I explain what production medicine is, let me give you a feel for w...