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Did a beehive inspection today. It’s only the second check I’ve done so far this spring, but my hive seemed to be doing great. Located the queen, so I went ahead and split the hive into two separate colonies. Now we’ve officially doubled the size of my bee ‘operation’. I also have a deposit on another hive to purchase later this spring, so we should have plenty of honey come this summer!
What is the social acceptability of asking a friend to pay proportional rent rather than 50/50 if she makes a lot more money than you? We had long been planning to move in together. We talked about moving in together when she got her current apartment, but it wasn’t a good time for me.
I don’t want to talk about it, but because of some issues with my brother, things may not work out for me to live with my mom. I am trying to come up with a Plan B. I realistically can’t live alone because, in order to do that, I would need to move to a cheaper community and I have too much family responsibility here.
The friend I have in mind makes 5 times the amount of money I do currently. It will still be about double when I finish grad school. She also doesn’t have debt and I do. She is also why we have to live in the more expensive area if we live together. I feel like it is more fair for rent to be proportional, but we are friends and not a couple. I also am from the much poorer side of the economic fence and I am not sure she appreciates what it’s like to not have money because she has always had it.
I don’t want to talk about it, but because of some issues with my brother, things may not work out for me to live with my mom. I am trying to come up with a Plan B. I realistically can’t live alone because, in order to do that, I would need to move to a cheaper community and I have too much family responsibility here.
The friend I have in mind makes 5 times the amount of money I do currently. It will still be about double when I finish grad school. She also doesn’t have debt and I do. She is also why we have to live in the more expensive area if we live together. I feel like it is more fair for rent to be proportional, but we are friends and not a couple. I also am from the much poorer side of the economic fence and I am not sure she appreciates what it’s like to not have money because she has always had it.
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I can't say that splitting based on income is very common, and may not be well received if you ask. From her perspective, that may not seem fair if she's paying more for the same accommodation.
However some options might be to either discuss splitting based on allocated space (e.g. she pays more if she takes the master bedroom, or keeps her car in the garage whilst you park in the driveway/street).
You can also simply tell her that you can't afford 50% of the rent price in whatever area she wants to live in, but you could afford an even split in another area, and see if she's willing to make up the difference that way, since at that point it would be her choice to take on the additional expense.
Thank you!
Happy Easter to all those who celebrate!!! Minnie of course had a banana themed basket because she is o b s e s s e d (as evidenced by the last two photos)
The newest 2 eaglets at Big Bear Mountain are cute ... and hungry!
Sending Congratulations to Jackie and Shadow on the birth of their beautiful new eaglets!
Sending Congratulations to Jackie and Shadow on the birth of their beautiful new eaglets!
Anyone else feel like they're running on like 2 brain cells recently? No, just me?
Sincerely,
Feeling frazzled after every shift recently
*but also double + booking on my single doc days and hospitalized 5 patients during my shift last Wednesday...so yeah*
**everything be super sick and dying lately**
***can't I just win the multimillions yet, retire, and do good yet?***
Sincerely,
Feeling frazzled after every shift recently
*but also double + booking on my single doc days and hospitalized 5 patients during my shift last Wednesday...so yeah*
**everything be super sick and dying lately**
***can't I just win the multimillions yet, retire, and do good yet?***
Mommy brain has hit my short term memory hard
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This is probably a really stupid question but does anyone know you actually find a job as a large animal veterinarian? I know I still have about 2 years to look around, but I'm getting worried because it seems like there are just 0 job postings online in eastern Canada but like... everyone tells me that large has such a shortage and that I should not have any issues finding a job once I graduate. Do you not apply for jobs online as a vet / do most clinics not post online? When I'm in 4th year am I supposed to just start cold calling clinics until I find one that needs a large animal vet?
Okay an immediate update to my last post I found some postings with the Canadian Association of Bovine Veterinarians which makes me feel a lot better. It just seems to be really obtuse actually tracking down the job postings lol, because for whatever reason they don't cross post between NSVMA, CVMA, specific organisations or individual clinic sites sites. 😆
Most of my personal experience has been through word of mouth and personal connections. I was offered a job at a place I did an externship at/where I knew the vet’s wife and father in law. My best friend who just left mixed practice to work for the USDA got her job because her husband knew the vet, she did an externship there, and he offered her a job. The vet who offered me a job also offered to my friend after I declined. I know she also got a couple cold calls from area vets trying to hire her throughout the years too.
I think a lot of the mixed and large animal jobs don’t have as much of a recruitment budget as small animal corporate places. My school will send out emails about jobs from time to time. And there are posts in the vet specific Facebook groups about jobs fairly regularly, but you’d have to be a vet to join most of those. I think there is one bovine group that maybe allows students or at least they did?
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@Viscernable is a large animal vet in Canada, hopefully she'll see this ping.
Hi there! I am also in Eastern Canada. I recommend job boards for associations of the species you are interested in (AABP AAEP AASV etc) and honestly, just contacting clinics you are interested in working at. Places that are considering hiring are not always advertised somewhere obvious.
I will say that the market for large animal vets in Eastern Canada specifically just got a whole lot… ah… sillier. 90% of large animal vets in New Brunswick just lost our jobs simultaneously effective March 2027 and privatization of the industry over the course of 11 months while the people making these decisions refuse to speak with us to give literally any details on sale of trucks and equipment, whether vets that qualify for severance (5+ years employed) will lose it by leaving early, how will they maintain and transfer medical records for the legally mandated length of time with no veterinary staff, when and what travel subsidies they are intending to implement, not to mention the even bigger mess of how they’re handling the provincial lab and the frankly disgusting conflicts of interest going on with their links to the crown corporation (for-profit) lab they want to take over for our current public lab with FADL capacities and 2 veterinary pathologists and extensive free testing for certain disease surveillance for public health… sorry, what was I saying? Never mind. Definitely come practice in Eastern Canada, the politics may be a mess but the clients and the colleagues and mentorship have been better than I could have ever hoped.
Thank you so much! That makes me feel a lot more relaxed about it. Doing this reveals way more places looking for large animal vets than I thought.
I heard rumblings about the situation in NB, right awful and I'm so sorry you and so many other vets are losing your jobs!! The lab thing is such a nightmare too like really just gutting it and letting the private sector vultures take over... again so sorry. I hope you find a good spot somewhere else in the Maritimes or wherever else you want to go! I'm from NS and the gov also recently dismantled our wildlife and environmental services and fired a bunch of people involved. Idk what's going on in the Maritimes the last few months but the decisions have been truly awful for people who work with animals.
I'm not sure if this has been discussed before somewhere else on the forum, but what's everyone's notetaking system for vet school? My primary method in undergrad has been Goodnotes on iPad, but I want to look into incorporating typing and/or physical notebooks (does anyone else get sensory issues from the Apple Pencil sounds??).
I'm a handwriting person too. I recently got the Super Manta Note and it's a game changer. The most realistic tablet writing experience, allows for you to change the battery/hard drive/etc., and is just all the way around phenomenal.
But that's all it does. It doesn't do video. It can technically type, but I don't know how cause that defeats the point to me. I bet it's more when you access the notes through your computer.
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maybe you can scan your physical notes into goodnotes or notability, then upload photos and diagrams?
catsandsnakes
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I use Goodnotes to take notes during class! In my free time I actually then handwrite my powerpoints onto lined paper. I feel like it helps me remember content better when I write it all out.
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I finished my last final yesterday. I don’t remember what I used to like before my life got crazy and stayed that way for many years. I haven’t had hobbies since I was a child and I don’t really have the disposable income to get any hobbies now. I am from a working class culture where adults having hobbies isn’t really a thing either. My back is killing me and I need to stop cleaning now, but I was just cleaning for lack of other things to do.
I am going to start going to church again and see my friends and family more. I am looking forward to that. I have all of this time after work and it’s very weird after not having any time to spare for years on end. It is a wonderful weirdness. 🙂
I am going to start going to church again and see my friends and family more. I am looking forward to that. I have all of this time after work and it’s very weird after not having any time to spare for years on end. It is a wonderful weirdness. 🙂
You didn’t ask for advice so feel free to ignore this, but have you looked into resources at your local library if you’re looking for things to do? Besides the obvious of being able to borrow books and maybe try reading, my library hosts occasional craft nights and other events to kind of ‘trial’ something new!
That’s a good idea. Thank you. I liked reading when I was a kid and at one point in my adolescence was reading 50+ books a year. I was trying to read every book in the library in my small town. I could get into reading again (maybe not 50 books a year though!). 🙂
Volunteering too!
reading is so fun but i can’t maintain it at all during school. i am looking forward to summer to actually be able to enjoy reading!
also, it does usually involve *some* money but home DIY projects and crafts genuinely give me so much fulfillment.
Even a coloring book is a fairly low investment and good stress relief.
this is a more recent development for me but i have been using goodnotes on my ipad for classes that involve a lot of photos/pictures (anatomy, parasitology) bc that’s just way easier to manage. but for my other courses, i have been handwriting in notebooks bc somehow it is just way faster and sticks in my brain better. for bacteriology, virology, and immunology i just wrote it all out as fast as i could and it did the trick. it was just so much content to be covered, it was harder to create those nice, digital notes in a reasonable time. i am a little sad that i didn’t create nice notes that i can use as a frame of reference in the future (they are chicken scratch lol) but it was so effective for what little time i had.
mixed media sketchbook plus watercolors/gouache paint can be pretty low investment and super beginner friendly! not a lot of mess either.
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Alright people who homestead more than I do: a squirrel (we think) is wreaking havoc on our raised planter boxes. It dug up our bean seeds we just put in a few days ago and is attacking our carrots which have barely sprouted, and my spouse said they found the biggest dug up spot so far on their way to work today. I thought the rabbits would be our biggest issue, hence the planter boxes. Any advice to make it less appealing to the vermin?
Happy Mother’s Day to all the mommas on sdn of both human babies and fur babies! 🩷💜💐🌷
No advice here. Squirrels are my nemesis. Used to (note the past tense) plant begonias in my backyard along a border. Every day I'd go out and at least one would be dug up and just laying there on the ground. I finally gave up 🙁 I tried sprinkling cayenne pepper etc and nothing worked.
10 year award- I feel old
Had a client starting college at my Alma mater...realizing in the room it has been almost 10 years since I graduated undergrad made me feel old
(Yes ik many of you are older but since hitting 30 it seems like its all of a sudden 😅)
Had a client starting college at my Alma mater...realizing in the room it has been almost 10 years since I graduated undergrad made me feel old
(Yes ik many of you are older but since hitting 30 it seems like its all of a sudden 😅)
Sometimes when I’m leaving the house with babymcat and going somewhere it would be hard to bf I’ll take a bottle of pumped milk in a coozy to keep it warm. I didn’t realize I grabbed a high noon one today until I realized it looked like I was feeding him a high noon in public.
I’m not WZ or pp9, but I do have a little experience because of my honeybees so I’ll chime in. But honeybee medicine is probably much different than general insects.
The main health issue facing honeybees is a parasitic mite, so I have to do twice yearly mite tests to monitor levels and treat as needed. That involves sacrificing about a cup of bees (~300 bees), washing them in alcohol, and counting the mites that fall off in the alcohol solution. There are non-fatal ways to test but they are not as accurate. Mites are becoming resistant to the medications, so it’s becoming a critical balancing act to treat when needed to ensure your colony survives, but not over treat and promote resistance. Treatment options include medication-impregnated plastic or paper you poke down into the hive and the bees absorb the medication over time through contact or you can fumigate with a vapor. But it can be hard to kill the bad bug while not killing your good bugs. There’s a new mite medication I haven’t tried with a novel MOA that actually uses RNA interference…feed it to the bees, when the mites feed on the bees they take in the RNAi and it shuts down mite calmodulin so they can’t reproduce but doesn’t affect the bees. Sound neat.
Bees do get other diseases. A lot are viral and happen secondary to the mites when a colony is weak, so you just treat the mites. There are some bacterial diseases that we can treat with oxytetracycline or other antibiotics in their water if needed. With the veterinary feed derivative rules that changed a while back, beekeepers now need a vet to write scripts for these antibiotics, and so this is really where a vet gets involved in beekeeping. Most beekeepers do the mite stuff on their own. One disease (American Foul Brood) is really bad and the best solution is to literally burn everything down and start over.
But for honeybees specifically, it’s better to consider the hive as a whole one organism and not focus on the individual bees as much. It’s a herd health approach in a way.
The main health issue facing honeybees is a parasitic mite, so I have to do twice yearly mite tests to monitor levels and treat as needed. That involves sacrificing about a cup of bees (~300 bees), washing them in alcohol, and counting the mites that fall off in the alcohol solution. There are non-fatal ways to test but they are not as accurate. Mites are becoming resistant to the medications, so it’s becoming a critical balancing act to treat when needed to ensure your colony survives, but not over treat and promote resistance. Treatment options include medication-impregnated plastic or paper you poke down into the hive and the bees absorb the medication over time through contact or you can fumigate with a vapor. But it can be hard to kill the bad bug while not killing your good bugs. There’s a new mite medication I haven’t tried with a novel MOA that actually uses RNA interference…feed it to the bees, when the mites feed on the bees they take in the RNAi and it shuts down mite calmodulin so they can’t reproduce but doesn’t affect the bees. Sound neat.
Bees do get other diseases. A lot are viral and happen secondary to the mites when a colony is weak, so you just treat the mites. There are some bacterial diseases that we can treat with oxytetracycline or other antibiotics in their water if needed. With the veterinary feed derivative rules that changed a while back, beekeepers now need a vet to write scripts for these antibiotics, and so this is really where a vet gets involved in beekeeping. Most beekeepers do the mite stuff on their own. One disease (American Foul Brood) is really bad and the best solution is to literally burn everything down and start over.
But for honeybees specifically, it’s better to consider the hive as a whole one organism and not focus on the individual bees as much. It’s a herd health approach in a way.
The spouse is incredibly tickled to know that there are 300 bees in a cup.
Thank you for this critical information (no, really. I knew a bit about bees because the school has an apiary but this is very fascinating).
About how many bees are in a colony?
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Depends on the time of year! In spring and summer the numbers ramp up and you can easily have 50,000-80,000 or more. Life span for a bee in the summer is only about six weeks. They are born, spend a couple weeks cleaning the hive and tending the eggs/larvae, and then eventually get to go be foragers. Then they die. In the fall, the numbers naturally go down so there are fewer mouths to feed all winter when they’re stuck in the hive, and you may have 10-20,000 “winter bees”. The female worker bees also kill all the male drones in the hive in the fall because they’re useless freeloaders at that point. The winter bees live a lot longer (all winter…slower metabolism, less wear and tear because they’re not out foraging). Then in spring as flowers start to bloom the queen ramps up laying eggs and increases hive numbers again. The queen bee can live 5-7 years.
Hey fam! I'm on my last week with my old job and then will be moving on to the new job in 5 weeks. I'll be starting an externship at the new place ASAP cause I miss having students around!
Muy questions to you as students:
- What would your expectation be of a general practice clinic that sees ER/UC cases?
- What would want to do within such a practice?
- How could I attract students to our practice? Unfortunately, no stipend or housing available 😔
- Would discussing personal finances be appropriate?
Muy questions to you as students:
- What would your expectation be of a general practice clinic that sees ER/UC cases?
- What would want to do within such a practice?
- How could I attract students to our practice? Unfortunately, no stipend or housing available 😔
- Would discussing personal finances be appropriate?
No buggies at my current zoo. We did have them at both of my previous zoos and they did not get any specific medical care.
There are definitely vets out there working on at least arachnids and some aquatic inverts routinely, but invert medicine is probably the least explored area of zoo med? I personally have not done anything beyond euthanasia (and even that is not always cut and dry)
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I had starfish coelomic effusion submitted to me a couple months ago. And I’ve looked at lobster hemolymph maybe a dozen times. Had coral cyto once too. Invert clin path is basically a giant unknown. I’ll describe what I see for you, but I hope you know how to interpret it.
In these clinic externship settings I honestly wanted to do however much the supervising vet would allow me to, of course understanding time constraints and that not every case or situation is feasible for a student to take the lead.
Depending on comfort level, at least having them do a history and initial PE and present findings/next steps to you and going from there is what I would expect. It's very valuable to have them do as much client communication as possible - whether that is PE findings, test options/results, etc.
I liked when a vet would approve my plan and take it one step further by having me calculate medication dose + duration, that step often gets left out and is so important!
Always was great to be able to scrub into surgeries with another vet, and if there was time having the student do what they are comfortable with under your supervision. Helping with dental extractions if possible is extremely helpful and more of a unique experience.
Reaching out to local schools? Are there any recent grads at the practice that could put a word in? Or some people here might be interested lol if you post somewhere and they can message you so some anonymity is maintained?
All you need is a few students to start and then word of mouth hopefully will spread further!
If the student is open to it, definitely, and would likely be very appreciated! Job searching/negotiation is also a great topic to discuss.
