Here is the accepted class interest breakdown:
46% mixed animal
9% Zoo animal and wildlife
7% Food animal
4% Research
2% Public health
That adds up to way less than 100%, so are you sure that the other 32% aren't small animal or equine?
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Here is the accepted class interest breakdown:
46% mixed animal
9% Zoo animal and wildlife
7% Food animal
4% Research
2% Public health
That adds up to way less than 100%, so are you sure that the other 32% aren't small animal or equine?
Take this for what it is worth since this may not be the case in OZ..
possums are dirty creatures and taking them in exposes everyone in the clinic to whatever they carry (including possibly rabies here in the US). If I owned a practice, I would have directed the lady to a local wildlife rehab, and would have been pissed if a tech took one in while I was not there (although this would be known well ahead of time). This probably does not help you, but things to think of if(when?) you come back to practice in the US (the land of sue happy people).
This is me jumping back a bit, but I really hate when people harangue at the poor opossums. They're actually one of, if not the least, likely animal in the US to be a rabies vector - people aren't really sure why (besides them being marsupials,) but it takes a lot more rabies exposure to infect them than most animals. And captive ones are generally really clean and friendly, with cute little wet noses and lots of teeth.
They're just seen as ugly and have rat tails, so nobody likes the poor things.
This is me jumping back a bit, but I really hate when people harangue at the poor opossums. They're actually one of, if not the least, likely animal in the US to be a rabies vector - people aren't really sure why (besides them being marsupials,) but it takes a lot more rabies exposure to infect them than most animals. And captive ones are generally really clean and friendly, with cute little wet noses and lots of teeth.
They're just seen as ugly and have rat tails, so nobody likes the poor things.
Three letters. EPM. If a horse ingests the fecal matter of an opossum that is carrying EPM, he could be in a lot of trouble. I won't risk it by having an opossum anywhere near my horses.
This is me jumping back a bit, but I really hate when people harangue at the poor opossums. They're actually one of, if not the least, likely animal in the US to be a rabies vector - people aren't really sure why (besides them being marsupials,) but it takes a lot more rabies exposure to infect them than most animals. And captive ones are generally really clean and friendly, with cute little wet noses and lots of teeth.
They're just seen as ugly and have rat tails, so nobody likes the poor things.
So maybe I'm missing something here, but aren't U.S./European opossums a totally different species than Australian/New Zealand possums?
I NEED a B in that dumb class!
My plan today was to get all of my snails measured for my honours project. Well, I soon realized that it couldn't be done. My dissecting scope didn't have a little measuring thingy in it (ha, I'm so technical), and my supervisor left me the keys to everywhere except the room with the dissecting scopes. Since I couldn't measure my snails, I figured I would start preserving the ones I needed to preserve. I opened up the box of glass vials and... 3 left. And I'm out of spring water.
So I basically made a trip to the university for nothing.
And because it's stupid thanksgiving weekend, I now have to wait until Tuesday to finish up with these darn snails.
At least I have plenty of time to work on my proposal
I sent my almost done proposal to my email and spent an hour editing it yesterday on the lab computer... and I lost it. I swore I saved it when I closed it but I guess I didn't. Ah well!
Its Columbus day weekend. 🙂 I wish it were Thanksgiving instead.



For cryin' out loud, why must we wait until school is in session to start road construction projects that have been desperately needed for YEARS!
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You know what? Just because you found a couple of mice with prolapses and one hanging from the top of the cage (?!) DOES NOT MEAN that I am a sloppy tech that failed to notice these things. Is it possible I missed something (other than a mouse hanging from the cage...wtf)? Yes. If I had noticed anything amiss, I would have written up a health report. I most definitely didn't hang your mouse from the caging. I looked at the cages for a couple seconds each in the middle of the day. NINETEEN HOURS passed between the time that I looked at the mice and you presumably found these things. Is it so freaking far-fetched to think that perhaps these things occured AFTER I looked at the cages? So many investigators assume that if something went wrong (flooded box, dead mouse, whatever) that it's YOUR fault for not catching it, nevermind the fact that 24hrs passes between each check. You want 24hr surveillance on your freaking mice? BUY A WEBCAM.
My horse tried to kill us both (again) this weekend by pretending NOT TO HEAR ME and resulting in dragging down an entire oxer with his back legs. Resulting in him going lame in the middle of our equitation class. And the last horse show of the season is this weekend. Which is making me insane, because I am dogsitting 4 dogs in two separate homes and one person's flight is delayed so I have ALL of them tonight, as well as the entire weekend. Not to mention I work this weekend on top of the regular full week. And I have to try to still get out and ride my horse, pending soundness.
On top of my schedule frying my brain, my endocrinology class is frying my brain. I love the material, but my professor's sense of organization is skewed and trying to put it all together in a way that makes sense so I can study is making my head hurt. My online animal nutrition class is organized even more horrendously, but thankfully it is online and I can ignore it until I get through this week.
Basically I just feel like my brain is going to melt and run out my ears, and I have no clean clothes, no food, and no time to fix either of those. I need a smilie that is catatonic and drooling.

I feel your pain - daily. Ah, the joys of research... Remember, it's never their fault, nor the fault of chance, that things go wrong. Thus, it must be the fault of animal services. It's simply amazing what we get blamed for...
My horse tried to kill us both (again) this weekend by pretending NOT TO HEAR ME and resulting in dragging down an entire oxer with his back legs. Resulting in him going lame in the middle of our equitation class. And the last horse show of the season is this weekend. Which is making me insane, because I am dogsitting 4 dogs in two separate homes and one person's flight is delayed so I have ALL of them tonight, as well as the entire weekend. Not to mention I work this weekend on top of the regular full week. And I have to try to still get out and ride my horse, pending soundness.
On top of my schedule frying my brain, my endocrinology class is frying my brain. I love the material, but my professor's sense of organization is skewed and trying to put it all together in a way that makes sense so I can study is making my head hurt. My online animal nutrition class is organized even more horrendously, but thankfully it is online and I can ignore it until I get through this week.
Basically I just feel like my brain is going to melt and run out my ears, and I have no clean clothes, no food, and no time to fix either of those. I need a smilie that is catatonic and drooling.
Highest score in the class was a 77 and average is yet to be determined (professor was out and TA taught lecture, so I'm guessing we'll find out tomorrow when professor is back) but that doesn't make me feel much better. I ended up with a B in orgo II scoring in the 50s (more like mid to upper, though) so I'm not going to break down into tears just yet. I'm kicking myself for bombing the first quiz but we have one or two more quizzes, one more test and online homework problems (which we can do until correct) so I'm just going to have to work extra hard. It's weird, because on my test I either got like, full credit/a lot of credit on certain parts and then like, zero credit on others. Makes it easy to focus my study efforts for the final though. Sorry things are rough for you right now.
I shall provide you with your smilie....
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I do not like musculoskeletal anatomy.
That is all.
We're about to go into abdominal and pelvic arteries: any tips for the wary venturer?
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Being from OK, I can handle tornadoes just fine. But earthquakes? Not cool, fault lines. Not cool.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
I am. We started with the celiac artery today and all the branches it has. Then all the branches the branches have. Then all the branches that the branches of the branches have....
And a test related rant towards my classmates. Why do the first people walking into the auditorium to take a test insist on sitting on the end of the row? Is it just me? I would think it makes more sense to go towards the middle of the row. (except for the left side of the auditorium with the desks for left-handed people) If you went towards the middle, I would not have to climb over you to get to an empty seat and interrupt your writing. If you get in there first and sit on the end, you are not allowed to get annoyed when people crawl over you.
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