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[finnerma]

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Get a mouser! One good cat and your mouse problems are gone forever, and plus it will probably train your dog not to be crazy!

I've thought about getting another cat (since my last cat died almost two years ago) but I keep thinking, who is going to rent me a house with three dogs and a cat when I go to vet school?

Plus I think I would be too worried the cat would get sick from whatever the mice are carrying around, yuck.

 

[finnerma]

SOV - I like mice when they stay outside or they are pet mice. I don't like when they come from outside and put their filthy feet on my stuff!!

Agreed, as long as they stay outside I'm good. Do they really need to come poop all over my house?

 

[nyanko]

I have come to realize that while grades are important, there are so many more important things in life, like actually being alive and enjoying life, rather than freaking out about getting a 4.0 over a 3.5. I still always put in the maximum effort, though, I just don't transcend into a large panic attack about grades and exams. I wish I would have realized this a long time ago!

You've come a really long way about this since you started posting here. I think that is a great attitude. 🙂

Well if that's the case, I'm having a very BAD*** semester.
Going into most of my finals with grades that can't change, so I can't complain too much. But it really sucks to have an 87-88 going into the final, and that's still not close enough to an A to be able to raise it- even if I were capable of getting 100% on the final.
So yeah, didn't study at all for my parasit exam, and probably not going to study much for infectious on Friday.

Yeah this quarter was not real good for me but the opposite - I went into the finals with mostly low to mid 90's and tanked all of them (I have a valid excuse but the excuse only works because of prior procrastination so what can I say) and since all of the finals were worth a large proportion of course grades welp...buuut I can't bring myself to care all that much.

 

[sunshinevet]

GAAAHHHHH MY POOR KITTY!!!!

A new housemate has moved in with me. And her cat. And even though she is a fellow vet student (year below me) she has no veterinary experience and apparently knows nothing about owning cats.

So, she decides to let her cat use my cats litter tray. Without asking me. Uh, how about no. No, go into the clinic and buy your OWN massive litter tray your cat will be comfortable peeing in. But no, she doesnt understand that. And then she cleans out MY cats litter tray and puts like, NO cat litter in it!!! NO!!! My cat LOVES lots of cat litter!!! And whats more, if you want 2 cats to share a litter tray, you NEED lots of cat litter!!!!! GAHHH!!!

So all this leads to my poor kitty peeing and pooing on my desk chair this morning 🙁 I hate her being so uncomfortable in her own house 🙁 Thankgod im moving out soon 🙁

Not only that, but said housemate has been away from the house for over 24hrs now. Her poor cat was shut in her room for 12 hours, until i heard it scratching at her door - at what time i let it out. it went straight to the big waterbowl i had and drank for a good 3-4 min. I was like, wtf, and went and checked her room - HER CAT HAD NO FOOD OR WATER!!! COME ON!!! YOU ARE A VET STUDENT!!!!!!!!!!

ARRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!

 

[breenie]

GAAAHHHHH MY POOR KITTY!!!!

A new housemate has moved in with me. And her cat. And even though she is a fellow vet student (year below me) she has no veterinary experience and apparently knows nothing about owning cats.

So, she decides to let her cat use my cats litter tray. Without asking me. Uh, how about no. No, go into the clinic and buy your OWN massive litter tray your cat will be comfortable peeing in. But no, she doesnt understand that. And then she cleans out MY cats litter tray and puts like, NO cat litter in it!!! NO!!! My cat LOVES lots of cat litter!!! And whats more, if you want 2 cats to share a litter tray, you NEED lots of cat litter!!!!! GAHHH!!!

So all this leads to my poor kitty peeing and pooing on my desk chair this morning 🙁 I hate her being so uncomfortable in her own house 🙁 Thankgod im moving out soon 🙁

Not only that, but said housemate has been away from the house for over 24hrs now. Her poor cat was shut in her room for 12 hours, until i heard it scratching at her door - at what time i let it out. it went straight to the big waterbowl i had and drank for a good 3-4 min. I was like, wtf, and went and checked her room - HER CAT HAD NO FOOD OR WATER!!! COME ON!!! YOU ARE A VET STUDENT!!!!!!!!!!

ARRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!

I would throw a holy cat lady fit at this.

 

[Trematode]

... how did she get into vet school?

 

[StartingoverVet]

Plus I think I would be too worried the cat would get sick from whatever the mice are carrying around, yuck.

My reply to you and minnerbelle (and sorry in advance if some of you don't like it)

I can understand some concern about getting some of those lovely parasites y'all are learning about but...

I would go to a kill shelter, pick out an adult cat that is going to be euthanized soon (maybe one that has spent some time outdoors) and bring it home. You have now prolonged its life. Consider it a working cat. Its job is to catch mice.

I would say the odds are against it getting sick. Lots of cats catch mice, they all don't get sick. Also the mere presence of cat I have noticed can be incentive to drive the mice to your neighbors! 😛

Now if the cat does get sick, you can:
1) Euthanize the cat because you can't afford to treat it. I mean you have hopefully provided it with a decent prolonged life. It is better off than it was before.
2) Treat it because you are a caring human being who wants to be a vet. I guess you go without Starbucks for a few months (or some other sacrifice).

I am sure most of you (including me) will end up with option 2, but even worst case you have helped the cat a bit.

Anyway that is my cold harsh logic.

Now if this weren't a pre-vet option I would be worried about other options (abandonment, keeping it suffering without treatment, inhumane killing, etc), but I hope I can assume none of us would do that.

Anyway, "food for thought".

Really, I am pretty sure the presence of a cat has driven the mice to my neighbors here! Not foolproof but .....

Not sure why bunnity has mice though. Maybe they just sense a warm person and can't resist her.

 

[bunnity]

Not sure why bunnity has mice though. Maybe they just sense a warm person and can't resist her.

Haha I did but I don't. I figured out where they were getting in (wall behind kitchen adjacent to another house) and went crazy with that spray foam stuff behind the fridge and stove and along the baseboard.
I don't have a cat though! Just a clueless dog and rabbits.

 

[LetItSnow]

You know that thing where you lay down for a nap, fall into a deep sleep, and then are suddenly awoken and are completely out of synch with the world?

Yeah. I've been burning the candle so heavily at both ends with finals coming.... I fell asleep for a while tonight. My wife was nice enough to wake me, but all I saw was "8" on the clock and thought it was 8am and "Oh crap I'm missing lecture and I have a meeting with a prof that I'm going to be late for and holy hell this is not going to be a good day and ....."

"Sweety. It's 8pm. Relax."

"Oh."

Sigh. This part of semester blows. I love vet school, but this part .... sucks boar balls.

 

[sunnex3]

You know that thing where you lay down for a nap, fall into a deep sleep, and then are suddenly awoken and are completely out of synch with the world?

Yeah. I've been burning the candle so heavily at both ends with finals coming.... I fell asleep for a while tonight. My wife was nice enough to wake me, but all I saw was "8" on the clock and thought it was 8am and "Oh crap I'm missing lecture and I have a meeting with a prof that I'm going to be late for and holy hell this is not going to be a good day and ....."

"Sweety. It's 8pm. Relax."

"Oh."

Sigh. This part of semester blows. I love vet school, but this part .... sucks boar balls.

oh boy i've done this so many times, to the point where i actually got up, thought i was late, brushed my teeth, changed, got ready for school, etc. all in like 10 minutes got my books together and about to head out the door before realizing what time it ACTUALLY was...

 

[Trilt]

Today I have learned that drinking with a stomach that has only had a chocolate bar the entire day is a bad, bad life choice. I am, however, super impressed that I am not majorly hung over.

 

[Whyevernot55]

We neutered a Doodle this morning. Said doodle woke up just fine, got his cone put on since the FIRST thing he did was go for the incision, and has proceeded to sit in his cage and bark his brains out ever since.

Said doodle is also not going home for another 3 hours at least. Omfg.

 

[jemappellejane]

We neutered a Doodle this morning. Said doodle woke up just fine, got his cone put on since the FIRST thing he did was go for the incision, and has proceeded to sit in his cage and bark his brains out ever since.

Said doodle is also not going home for another 3 hours at least. Omfg.

ERGH! I HATE days like those... luckily, at the clinic I work at, we have the ICU (where we keep quiter dogs) and the kennel the next room over where we can put those obnoxious buggers. I can't tell you how many of us have remained sane because of this option!

 

[Whyevernot55]

ERGH! I HATE days like those... luckily, at the clinic I work at, we have the ICU (where we keep quiter dogs) and the kennel the next room over where we can put those obnoxious buggers. I can't tell you how many of us have remained sane because of this option!

Yeah, he's in the kennel in the back, with 3 doors closed between here and there. I can STILL hear him yapping - something about it is so shrill and long-reaching. He has gone walkies, moved from cage to run, and has the lights turned off in an attempt to keep him quiet. No dice. Arrrrrrrggghhhhh.

 

[kaydubs]

But now it's not so much "stuff" I need to talk about, it's more that I definitely have a chemical mix-up and I realized that it doesn't HAVE to be that way.I can take a deep breath and manage my stressors. I feel like I enjoy life so much more now and it's great =)

👍This is what I like to call progress. 👍 Music personally rocked the heck of out my world (between that and animal therapy, I do A LOT better). In this year away, I'm working on balance, patience and endurance (They seem like they might be handy in vet school🙂). And continuing at my own pace (which I accept as my own best. Standards mandards mallards...teal ducks😍)

Let's make it to the weekend. It's FRIDAY! (And I hear a decent amount of 2015s are tying off the loose ends of being done with their 1st semesters!😀)

 

[jemappellejane]

Yeah, he's in the kennel in the back, with 3 doors closed between here and there. I can STILL hear him yapping - something about it is so shrill and long-reaching. He has gone walkies, moved from cage to run, and has the lights turned off in an attempt to keep him quiet. No dice. Arrrrrrrggghhhhh.

Eep! Bring on the ibuprofen...

 

[Tegan05]

UGH! I am .12 percentage points away from an A in Economics and .4 percentage points from a B- in Organic! Seriously!!!
This is the worst semester ever.

 

[PetPony]

Jetlag..

it's 3 in the morning and I'm fully awake.

 

[kaydubs]

Jetlag..

it's 3 in the morning and I'm fully awake.

I woke up at 12:30am EST (fell asleep around.....11:30pm), stayed up til 6:30ish/7 and woke up again around 8:05am. During that time, I made Christmas presents. My family will hopefully like said presents....if I ever finish them. Insomnia + Procrastination = ......idk.....😕

 

[jemappellejane]

Jetlag..

it's 3 in the morning and I'm fully awake.

But you're awake in....GERMANY!!! Go party!!!

 

[PetPony]

Stepmom.. I love her, but it'd be really nice if she could knock on the door before she comes in. I know I usually don't live here and she has some clothes in the closet in this room, but still. Can't you take the clothes you need the night before? And please don't just walk in early in the morning without even knocking on the door and then turning on the light. It scares the hell out of me. Also, I'm exhausted from flying still and because of the time change and I would LOVE to sleep a little longer..

 

[cowgirla]

We really need a "WHINE HERE" thread for posts like this one....
working overnight shifts + dieting = bad combo.
Plus I bought a small coffee instead of a large, so my caffeine high is wearing off quickly....
I've got the munchies sooo bad right now, and all I brought to work with me was a damn spinach salad and a bottle of water.

Why do I stress eat during exams? =bangs head= Want brownies. Must resist.

 

[Trilt]

We really need a "WHINE HERE" thread for posts like this one....
working overnight shifts + dieting = bad combo.
Plus I bought a small coffee instead of a large, so my caffeine high is wearing off quickly....
I've got the munchies sooo bad right now, and all I brought to work with me was a damn spinach salad and a bottle of water.

Why do I stress eat during exams? =bangs head= Want brownies. Must resist.

Perhaps?

 

[cowgirla]

Perhaps?

Except for the being stuck working in the ICU part of things. I want them NOW. 😛
I have a recipe for zucchini chocolate cake I've been meaning to try at some point.

 

[sunshinevet]

Except for the being stuck working in the ICU part of things. I want them NOW. 😛

The bosses of the em/cc hospital I work at keep a chocolate and coke/coffee stash permanently supplied for us.... does your boss? Dig in to that, i say... couldnt imagine doing an overnight on a salad!!! You've got more motivation than me!!!

My rant: I cannot talk. Like, literally. I can't even sort of talk, the most I can manage is a scratchy whisper. Its been one day and I'm over it!!! 😡

 

[cowgirla]

The bosses of the em/cc hospital I work at keep a chocolate and coke/coffee stash permanently supplied for us.... does your boss? Dig in to that, i say... couldnt imagine doing an overnight on a salad!!! You've got more motivation than me!!!

My rant: I cannot talk. Like, literally. I can't even sort of talk, the most I can manage is a scratchy whisper. Its been one day and I'm over it!!! 😡

There is coke and caffeine....but as far as I know, nothing yummy. It's the school's teaching hospital 🙁

 

[PetPony]

I feel bad for putting it in the rant thread because it's my own fault, but.. My GPA is a 2.65 right now. I'm still waiting for two grades which are a sure A and probably a C. It's only my first semester, but just very frustrating. Not what I expected and so discouraging. :[

I'm working less next semester and only taking 14 hours. Classes are only Monday, Wednesday and Friday, so I will have Tuesday and Thursday off to relax and study a lot. I know I can bring it up a lot still, but it's gonna be significantly harder now to get the GPA I was going for in the beginning. (I know everyone is going for a 4.00, but that's not what I was thinking about. Though it'd still be awesome. Hahaha.)

I also have a huge headache that just won't go away.

Sorry. Stupid rant that can be fixed easily, but I just felt like saying it out loud that I'm stupid. Hahaha. Haven't had a great day and hopefully saying it will make me feel better now. No ranting about grades anymore. (Although I'm pissed about my B- in calc. I was great in the class, but that final was just so much harder than everything else we've done and it ruined my chances for an A. I was so close!)

 

[Chinola]

I feel bad for putting it in the rant thread because it's my own fault, but.. My GPA is a 2.65 right now. I'm still waiting for two grades which are a sure A and probably a C. It's only my first semester, but just very frustrating. Not what I expected and so discouraging. :[

I'm working less next semester and only taking 14 hours. Classes are only Monday, Wednesday and Friday, so I will have Tuesday and Thursday off to relax and study a lot. I know I can bring it up a lot still, but it's gonna be significantly harder now to get the GPA I was going for in the beginning. (I know everyone is going for a 4.00, but that's not what I was thinking about. Though it'd still be awesome. Hahaha.)

I also have a huge headache that just won't go away.

Sorry. Stupid rant that can be fixed easily, but I just felt like saying it out loud that I'm stupid. Hahaha. Haven't had a great day and hopefully saying it will make me feel better now. No ranting about grades anymore. (Although I'm pissed about my B- in calc. I was great in the class, but that final was just so much harder than everything else we've done and it ruined my chances for an A. I was so close!)

I know looking at that 2.65 GPA is depressing but you took what, 15 credits this semester? By the time you apply to vet school with approximately 90 credits (or more!) those 15 credits won't make too much of a dent. Chin up!

 

[Trematode]

Chinola, don't be so hard on yourself. I take it this is your first semester of university. University is not easy and it takes a while to adjust to it. I flunked math my first semester of university! I was able to bounce back. It just took a little hard work, some creative thinking and ratemyprofessor.com to avoid a repeat performance. It is Christmas break. Take the time to relax and re-evaluate your situation. It seems like you have already started doing that since you are thinking of working less hours. So you are on the right track. Good luck and be happy. 😀.

 

[PetPony]

Chinola, don't be so hard on yourself. I take it this is your first semester of university. University is not easy and it takes a while to adjust to it. I flunked math my first semester of university! I was able to bounce back. It just took a little hard work, some creative thinking and ratemyprofessor.com to avoid a repeat performance. It is Christmas break. Take the time to relax and re-evaluate your situation. It seems like you have already started doing that since you are thinking of working less hours. So you are on the right track. Good luck and be happy. 😀.

PetPony, not Chinola. :]

It's just a bit frustrating because I know it's my fault. I was just too lazy.

 

[Bisbee]

PP - Since this was your first semester, it was a learning experience for you. Now you know that, in order to get really good grades, you should take fewer credits and not work as many hours. I'll bet if you adjust things for next semester you will fare much better. Let's look at it this way: Now you can take what you've learned in this first semester and apply it going forward. Don't be down in the dumps...you have many more semesters to impress the vet schools!

 

[Trematode]

PetPony, not Chinola. :]

It's just a bit frustrating because I know it's my fault. I was just too lazy.

Hahahaha. It has been a LONG day.
Forgive me, PetPony. That does not mean I care any less.
You, lazy? (I am supposed to be studying for an exam right now.)

I changed my Facebook over to the Timeline crap.
Why the &*#% did I do that?! It is horrible.

 

[Myotis]

Dirty, immature, irresponsible, lazy roommates SUCK...that's all I have to say

 

[PetPony]

Hahahaha. It has been a LONG day.
Forgive me, PetPony. That does not mean I care any less.
You, lazy? (I am supposed to be studying for an exam right now.)

I changed my Facebook over to the Timeline crap.
Why the &*#% did I do that?! It is horrible.

It's fine. hahaha thanks!

How is it different besides the way the profile looks to other people?


Thanks, Bisbee. I do know better now. It's still frustrating though.

 

[Trematode]

It's fine. hahaha thanks!

How is it different besides the way the profile looks to other people?

It asks for places a lot... it wants to know all of the places I have lived/visited but actually will not let me add them for some reason. Your timeline is mostly told in pictures... and the pictures are HUGE and it takes forever to scroll through them. It is just weird.

 

[PetPony]

It asks for places a lot... it wants to know all of the places I have lived/visited but actually will not let me add them for some reason. Your timeline is mostly told in pictures... and the pictures are HUGE and it takes forever to scroll through them. It is just weird.

Sounds weird. I guess I'm not getting it then..

 

[Trematode]

Oh dear. It lets you add Life Events. So when you break up with somebody, you can post who it was, when it happened, what the story is and add a picture.

WHAT?! WHO WOULD POST THAT?!

 

[PetPony]

A picture of a break up? lol I know it's only an example, but that makes me laugh.

Oh, yes, don't worry! Of course I will take a picture as I am slapping my now-exboyfriend while breaking up with him. Facebook is important after all.

 

[Trematode]

I am imagining: "I broke up with Jon Doe in June 2011 because he made me sad." *emo picture*

You can also add things to your timeline like your piercings. I could have fun with that next time I am bored.

 

[fromthebox]

Rejected on a Sunday, and my Dad's birthday. Also have the most tenacious cold ever. Got sick on Monday last week, have been feeling better at night the last 3 days, only to wake up to more nasty mucus and coughing fits. Also, the trasient fever is kinda like hot flashes but with shivers and pain. Thinking a Dr. visit might be in order.

 

[Bisbee]

So sorry...that is awful about the rejection and the illness. I hope you get in elsewhere...and get thee to a doctor!

 

[twelvetigers]

RE: timeline - you don't have to add any of that crap if you don't want to. I just left mine alone except changing the big main picture on the top.

 

[scb44f]

RE: timeline - you don't have to add any of that crap if you don't want to. I just left mine alone except changing the big main picture on the top.

Yep. I switched several weeks ago. It's fun, and now easy peasy, to reminisce about the days when I first had Facebook and wrote on my floormates' walls lol.

 

[kaydubs]

Timeline honestly frightens me. I feel like I'm in a relationship with FB more than ever now.

Do I have commitment issues? Only to public, social networking forums, yes. The new appearance is reminiscent of Myspace in my opinion. I'm just wondering WHEN FB will transfer me into Timeline....will it be eventual but inevitable like LAST time???? 🙄

[I wonder why someone such as I maintains a FB. Or a blog. Or an account on here. Then I giggle and think, "Calm down, OCD. They haven't come for you. Yet."]

 

[Trilt]

oh. my. god. This is kind of stupid, but I am seriously on the verge of murdering my SO. I sent a (sizeable!) check home with him to the US THREE WEEKS ago to mail to my bank, because I didn't want to have to send it internationally and risk it getting lost. I double checked to make sure he sent it yesterday, and got:

"Nope. I need your account number to put on it. They'll get it and be like wtf... where do we put the money? Who do we contact? It's not "our" check so we can't be sure we know this person... etc. With your checking account number on it, they'll know who it goes to among the few "Ashely *****" people they serve, where to actually put the money, and will have your contact information from that number to notify you if you need to sign a document to cash it (given it's a foreign bank branch that made it, it's in euros and your account is in dollars, and an exchange is required... at least a form/consent that says the exchange rate they give may not be yady yada yada... is very likely). Just wait until you get back. If you need the money, I will give you whatever you want."​

...not only have I already contacted my bank to make certain I didn't have to fill out any more paperwork (and TOLD HIM THIS), but if I had just wanted to wait till I get back, I would have friggin' done that and not sent it back with him. He could have notified me *three weeks* ago that I forgot to give him my account number. I would have really liked that money for, you know, the holidays.

Also he typoed my name and I HATE when people typo my name. He is not in my happy books right now, and I am sleep deprived and have a 20+hr flight soon. 👎

 

[Minnerbelle]

My kitty cat went in to get a dental consult today and it turns out that what appeared to be a very focal subtle (and probably inconsequential) heart murmur was very obvious and not so focal no mo... Could just be that her very rapid heart from being scared made it seem that way and it's not something that'll affect her health significantly... but I'm so worried she has kitty cardiomyopathy 🙁. I left her at the VTH so that she can get an echo done, and I'm worried sick.

(and wtf, I've had at least 2 vets look at her broken canine and asked if I should get that taken care of, and they both said no. Apparently, it should have been taken out eons ago 😡. Also rather embarrassing that I thought broken and chipped teeth were the same thing... you know, like fracture/broken bone? vet student fail.)

 

[spoondiggity]

My kitty cat went in to get a dental consult today and it turns out that what appeared to be a very focal subtle (and probably inconsequential) heart murmur was very obvious and not so focal no mo... Could just be that her very rapid heart from being scared made it seem that way and it's not something that'll affect her health significantly... but I'm so worried she has kitty cardiomyopathy 🙁. I left her at the VTH so that she can get an echo done, and I'm worried sick.

(and wtf, I've had at least 2 vets look at her broken canine and asked if I should get that taken care of, and they both said no. Apparently, it should have been taken out eons ago 😡. Also rather embarrassing that I thought broken and chipped teeth were the same thing... you know, like fracture/broken bone? vet student fail.)

Aww hang in there! My kitty had a grade 3 heart murmur and lived a long happy life!

 

[Dsmoody23]

Post the g*ddamn grades, already.

 

[Minnerbelle]

Aww hang in there! My kitty had a grade 3 heart murmur and lived a long happy life!

Thanks spondiggity! I'm really hoping this is just hypochondriac mama setting in.

Post the g*ddamn grades, already.

lol, is this for the class with your special paper writing partner? worry not, these things don't end after UG. my worst grade this semester was one where group work tanked me

 

[kaydubs]

Minnerbelle: hope things work out for your kitty! I send my like always!! (I have 2 animals - un gato y un perro - both have heart murmurs. The geriatric kitty has been diagnosed with feline lymphoma for over a year now but has been living at her best on steroids. The little Pom is super tiny and is a nervine....alas what can ya do).

Dsmoody23: Hope you get the numbers that you want! If not, hope they're your best🙂