The Dog Zombie

You would think that spaying something big would be a lot easier than spaying something small. With something big, you can visualize everyth...

I seem to have spent two months with no time to blog. What in the world was I doing? The last you heard from me, dear readers, I was in th...

Oh my god do I miss blogging. But I have been flat out all month. Let’s see, what have I been doing? When last I wrote, dear diary, I was ...

I didn’t really feel like a vet until the second day of my veterinary internship in shelter medicine. I spent the first day being driven fro...

Yes, that is a Pet Doctor Barbie graduation cake. I graduated! You may now call me Dr. Dog Zombie. Next: shelter medicine internship i...

I am at the end of something. I am a senior in veterinary school, a short-timer, with seven weeks left. It feels just like the end of high s...

I matched at an academic shelter medicine internship in Florida! But I bet you don’t completely know what that means. Internship: Like hu...

Yesterday I spent the day on a spay/neuter trailer. The shelter which owns the trailer sends it out to low-income areas to spay and neuter a...

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 ...

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...

Recently, an owner refused to let me perform a physical examination on his dog. That was for the vet to do. I think he didn’t believe that I...

The first dog I ever tried to spay had no uterus. ( She had already been spayed. ) And the first cow I ever did a reproductive exam on had n...

I just completed my two-week neurology rotation. You might think that, because I love dog brains, this would have been right up my alley. Ac...

I recently spent two weeks of elective time at a shelter medicine externship at a different vet school. Half the time was spent in academic ...