Pet ownership

[adoptapuffin]

Is owning or past ownership of a pet important when applying to vet school?

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[OtakuVet]

Nope! Pet ownership doesn't count towards your animal experience while applying to veterinary school. =D Pet sitting and helping out with other people's animals do though.

 

[bunnity]

This thread has the same question:
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=647769
and if you read through that thread there is a link to another similar one.

 

[Backwoods Boy]

This thread has the same question:
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=647769
and if you read through that thread there is a link to another similar one.

It's like Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Only this time it's Six Degrees of SDN Nation.

 

[david594]

Nope! Pet ownership doesn't count towards your animal experience while applying to veterinary school. =D Pet sitting and helping out with other people's animals do though.

Nope.

But its better to avoid pointing out you only got into the field because it looked really cool on Animal Planet.

 

[Backwoods Boy]

Nope.

But its better to avoid pointing out you only got into the field because it looked really cool on Animal Planet.

You thought that too? I though I was the only one...