So, I'm a veterinary Technology student...
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- chibichibi01
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So, I'm a veterinary Technology student...
Is anyone here a vet or a vet tech? I've been finding them in the strangest of places and I wanted poke my nose out here.
If you don't know what a vet tech is, just ask We're a poorly understood and new-ish profession
If you don't know what a vet tech is, just ask We're a poorly understood and new-ish profession
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Re: So, I'm a veterinary Technology student...
Please tell me this has something to do with robot pet doctors...chibichibi01 wrote:Is anyone here a vet or a vet tech? I've been finding them in the strangest of places and I wanted poke my nose out here.
If you don't know what a vet tech is, just ask We're a poorly understood and new-ish profession
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Robots that are veterinary doctors, not doctors for robot pets, that is.Jabberwonky wrote:Please tell me this has something to do with robot pet doctors...chibichibi01 wrote:Is anyone here a vet or a vet tech? I've been finding them in the strangest of places and I wanted poke my nose out here.
If you don't know what a vet tech is, just ask We're a poorly understood and new-ish profession
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Re: So, I'm a veterinary Technology student...
Unfortunately no D:
We're what basically amounts to nurses for the animals. We do a lot more than that, however. We are nurses, pharmacology techs, Radiography techs, lab techs, and even surgical assistants. Not to mention that while nurses only have to learn about one species, we get to learn everything from horses and dogs and cats to snakes, rabbits, parrots and turtles.
It's a rough two year program! I'm in our Pharmacology class right now and these nervous system drugs are whipping my tail.
We're what basically amounts to nurses for the animals. We do a lot more than that, however. We are nurses, pharmacology techs, Radiography techs, lab techs, and even surgical assistants. Not to mention that while nurses only have to learn about one species, we get to learn everything from horses and dogs and cats to snakes, rabbits, parrots and turtles.
It's a rough two year program! I'm in our Pharmacology class right now and these nervous system drugs are whipping my tail.
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Well, if you have a tail, you've gone into the right career.chibichibi01 wrote:Unfortunately no D:
We're what basically amounts to nurses for the animals. We do a lot more than that, however. We are nurses, pharmacology techs, Radiography techs, lab techs, and even surgical assistants. Not to mention that while nurses only have to learn about one species, we get to learn everything from horses and dogs and cats to snakes, rabbits, parrots and turtles.
It's a rough two year program! I'm in our Pharmacology class right now and these nervous system drugs are whipping my tail.
Good luck with it, a Vet is one of the many careers I never made it to. I do my best now by supporting one with three dogs and four cats...
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Oh, same here. I have three cats, a dog, a rabbit, a fish tank, a musk turtle, and a ball python.
Someone in the house is always needing /something/ done to them. At least now I can report the issues to the Vet in a way that will help him make a diagnosis.
And the biggest reason i made this thread, is because there's a vet tech in my local SCA group. I figured if there is one there, why not here? We shall see
Someone in the house is always needing /something/ done to them. At least now I can report the issues to the Vet in a way that will help him make a diagnosis.
And the biggest reason i made this thread, is because there's a vet tech in my local SCA group. I figured if there is one there, why not here? We shall see
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“Prevention and more prevention. Let’s fully establish a veterinary system for the prevention of epidemics!”
From a site with a set of vintage Anti-American posters from North Korea.
From a site with a set of vintage Anti-American posters from North Korea.
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Creepy? I think it'd be cool to have teeny-tiny cows and goats!chibichibi01 wrote:That's... really creepy.
Aaannd...in honor of the occasion...
*singing*
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
You smell like a monkey,
Probably from working in a vets office
Well, the sentiment's there...
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Way out west, there's a story told...Jabberwonky wrote:Creepy? I think it'd be cool to have teeny-tiny cows and goats!
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I... you... it may be just because it's early but i found this absolutely hilarious.shadowinthelight wrote:Way out west, there's a story told...Jabberwonky wrote:Creepy? I think it'd be cool to have teeny-tiny cows and goats!
And Jabberwonky, I just had a shower! I can't smell like that yet, it has to wait til I get to school!
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Everybody loves their tiny cows. (I would have posted a relevant video, but I can't find it anywhere)shadowinthelight wrote:Way out west, there's a story told...Jabberwonky wrote:Creepy? I think it'd be cool to have teeny-tiny cows and goats!
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I actually really really want a tiny cow...
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Head over to Girl Genius and you can have your very own Mimmoth! (tiny mammoth) (But, it'll be cardboard, sorry)PrettyPrincess wrote:I actually really really want a tiny cow...
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If I remember the Jurassic Park novel correctly, when trying to get funding they toured with a tiny cloned mammoth as a proof-of-concept. It was very aggressive just like small, yappy dogs.NOTDilbert wrote:Head over to Girl Genius and you can have your very own Mimmoth! (tiny mammoth) (But, it'll be cardboard, sorry)
Edit: Thinking about it more, it might have been a miniature modern elephant. Haven't read that book in years. The point was to dupe investors into thinking the company's DNA manipulation abilities were more advanced than they actually were at that point. The ultimate goal was to create miniature dinosaurs that could be sold as pets.
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Also, Gullivers Travels had small sheep and possibly other small mammals that he brought home from Lilliput.
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There were also tiny elephants in Sky Captain & The World Of Tomorrow.
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There were dwarf elephants on some Mediterranean Islands in the Pleistocene, and I believe some pigmy elephants were recently discovered living in Indonesia, on Borneo. Maybe the "hobbit" hunted dwarf elephants (on Flores) with little spears?shadowinthelight wrote:If I remember the Jurassic Park novel correctly, when trying to get funding they toured with a tiny cloned mammoth as a proof-of-concept. It was very aggressive just like small, yappy dogs.NOTDilbert wrote:Head over to Girl Genius and you can have your very own Mimmoth! (tiny mammoth) (But, it'll be cardboard, sorry)
Edit: Thinking about it more, it might have been a miniature modern elephant. Haven't read that book in years. The point was to dupe investors into thinking the company's DNA manipulation abilities were more advanced than they actually were at that point. The ultimate goal was to create miniature dinosaurs that could be sold as pets.
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That sounded so awesome I had to look it up and found this.bmonk wrote:There were dwarf elephants on some Mediterranean Islands in the Pleistocene, and I believe some pigmy elephants were recently discovered living in Indonesia, on Borneo. Maybe the "hobbit" hunted dwarf elephants (on Flores) with little spears?
Malaysia saves endangered pygmy elephant on Borneo
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Not only is it a way cool pygmy elephant, he play's MP3s!shadowinthelight wrote:That sounded so awesome I had to look it up and found this.bmonk wrote:There were dwarf elephants on some Mediterranean Islands in the Pleistocene, and I believe some pigmy elephants were recently discovered living in Indonesia, on Borneo. Maybe the "hobbit" hunted dwarf elephants (on Flores) with little spears?
Malaysia saves endangered pygmy elephant on Borneo
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