…when the first thing you do when your animal is sick or injured is to take a picture of it for a future lecture, blog, or project.  This goes along with the other fact of vet school:  Now that you are a vet, your animal will get all sorts of exotic diseases.  Best to sell […] more

Hello my devoted readers. And yes, by “devoted” I mean YOU. Since it’s not like I’ve posted anything of interest since starting school, I’m assuming all I have LEFT is you, the devoted reader, who is probably subscribed to this in Google reader, since heaven knows all those who come here directly have given up […] more

For snuggling under comforters And down coats And rain And bottles of vitamin D And colds. The ones that, like alien invaders, get into your head and make it all fuzzy. Remember that I told you that there was nothing like establishing a new routine and new goals to bring all sorts of misfortunes?  Like […] more

Per my sister (and incredibly underpaid horse feeder/monitorer/feeder and apples/fixer of flymasks) –  Our new neighbor moved his horses in yesterday and Farley ran around like a crazy horse whinnnying and swishing her tail and making sure that everybody knows that despite all evidence to the contrary she is indeed an arab. Mom: “Are those […] more

Yesterday was pony day!!!! And the day before that! It feels GREAT to be back in the saddle.  Of course….there’s a problem.  There’s ALWAYS a problem that comes up ANYTIME you finally get around summoning up the motivation and time to do something you want to do.  Planning on running a marathon?  Plan on getting […] more

Honesty is the policy right? This is me being totally honest.  I haven’t done any riding I haven’t done any mounting exercises I haven’t done any pony cuddling I paid my sister to pick up manure for me last week. I pay someone else to feed. I paid someone else to come up with a […] more

I am almost officially done with my first block of vet school! Almost, because even though I had the final for the block on Friday, there is a week of population health, and then a population health exam this Friday that is still technically part of the VET 401 block. Being a pass/fail block that […] more