What are your Interests?

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What Is your current main interest?

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Sorry! General poll for the hay of it. I was just curious (personally) about the ratio of large to small to equine. Also, wanted to figure out this poll feature. We def should have used to to poll for schools. Oh well, I guess I won't be that insane to start the school poll again, or shall I?
 
I voted Equine but I would not be averse to treating other LA (food animals). Maybe I should have thought about the poll choices before I answered. 😛
 
I want to eventually do a nutrition residency (have even thrown around the idea of the new rehabilitative medicine residency as well), but I would like to start out mixed practice. Predominantly small animal, but exotics, horses, and food/fiber animals (particularly small ruminants and camelids) as well.
 
I'm interested in too many things to know exactly what I want to do just yet. I'm only even applying to vet school during the next cycle so I think that's ok 🙂

Overall, small animal. But more specifically, mixed animal (working somewhere that would take all small animals, ie cats, dogs, rabbits, reptiles, birds, etc). And/or research. Or specializing in surgery, or neurology, or behavior. My goal right now is just to do what I can to get into veterinary school... and then take it from there :-D And depending on how family/kids eventually work out, I might be more equipped to figure out what field work be best for me.
 
I love how almost all of the specialties in vet med are really interesting. Though I don't think I could ever be a fish surgeon. Right now, I'm really into wildlife epidemiology. Field work is one of the most grimiest, cramped, exhausting jobs out there, but there's nothing else like it. Even if I can't get into vet school I'll likely spend a major portion of my life just doing field work.
 
Small animal critical care or shelter med/public health/public policy.
 
I'm interested in pathology (I never know where to put it either) or food animal (chickens)
 
thereservoirdog said:
. Right now, I'm really into wildlife epidemiology. Field work is one of the most grimiest, cramped, exhausting jobs out there, but there's nothing else like it. Even if I can't get into vet school I'll likely spend a major portion of my life just doing field work.
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I'm also really into wildlife epidemiology, as well as conservation medicine. My main opposition to a research career is having to do research proposals and write final manuscripts. It's so tedious! I love the field work aspect of it though
 
Right now, I'd say horses and goats/other small ruminants, but I'm open to anything other than exclusively small animal practice.
 
I voted small animal, but I would be sad never to work with any of the food animals. I want to be a cat and goat vet. Is that a specialty? 🙄

Can we open an SDN clinic full of people who have ridiculous interests? We can have a giant pathology lab, a cat clinic, do farm calls, have a wildlife rescue and also do fish. And research. Oh.. and I assume everyone loves dogs and wants to see them. We can divide them up by breed. I call shelties!
 
I'll take Newfoundlands, Wolfhounds, Danes, Mastiffs, and the generic Huge White Sheep-Guarding Dog (Pyrenees, Akbash, Maremma, etc.) -- anything that's at least the size of a small pony, plus lawn ornaments and anything with a rumen.

ETA: That sounds too reasonable. I'll take the huge dogs, plus the neonatal lawn ornaments and ruminants. I'll call myself the 100-200lb specialist.
 
I'm feelin' a bit lonely here LOL. No other Food Animal peeps out there?!?! Course, if you stay away I won't argue!! HAHA. I'm secretly afraid by the time I get into Vet School, there will be TOO many Food Animal Vets flooding the job market, because everyone decided to jump on the band wagon. Darn those shortages being known to the public...😀
 
wolfspeaker said:
I'm feelin' a bit lonely here LOL. No other Food Animal peeps out there?!?! Course, if you stay away I won't argue!! HAHA. I'm secretly afraid by the time I get into Vet School, there will be TOO many Food Animal Vets flooding the job market, because everyone decided to jump on the band wagon. Darn those shortages being known to the public...😀
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i'm food animal. the practice i work for is large animal - food animal, equine, fiber animals. however, the majority of our work is on food animal. i like the other areas as well, so my primary focus is large animal.
 
My vote is on mixed practice, only because I don't want to get out of vet school being afraid to touch anything but cats and dogs. Don't know if it's like this in other vet school towns, but being in the same city as UTCVM seems to have made all the vets lazy, you have to go about 45-50 miles out of town for anything but cat and dog vets to become "common". Seems kinda sad.
 
Sophie10 said:
I voted small animal, but I would be sad never to work with any of the food animals. I want to be a cat and goat vet. Is that a specialty? 🙄

Can we open an SDN clinic full of people who have ridiculous interests? We can have a giant pathology lab, a cat clinic, do farm calls, have a wildlife rescue and also do fish. And research. Oh.. and I assume everyone loves dogs and wants to see them. We can divide them up by breed. I call shelties!
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I'll fight you for the shelties 🙄
 
Sophie10 said:
We can have a giant pathology lab, a cat clinic, do farm calls, have a wildlife rescue and also do fish. And research. Oh.. and I assume everyone loves dogs and wants to see them. We can divide them up by breed. I call shelties!
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👍
 
my interest lies in canine ophthalmology 😎. although I am really excited to get some experience in zoo med. I was turned away from the zoos around me due to insurance issues.
 
Horses🙂 and eventually become a surgeon 🙂
 
Sophie10 said:
Can we open an SDN clinic full of people who have ridiculous interests? We can have a giant pathology lab, a cat clinic, do farm calls, have a wildlife rescue and also do fish. And research. Oh.. and I assume everyone loves dogs and wants to see them. We can divide them up by breed. I call shelties!
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I would call corgis, but damn, I've met some mean ones.
 
eventualeventer said:
I'll take Newfoundlands, Wolfhounds, Danes, Mastiffs, and the generic Huge White Sheep-Guarding Dog (Pyrenees, Akbash, Maremma, etc.) -- anything that's at least the size of a small pony, plus lawn ornaments and anything with a rumen.

ETA: That sounds too reasonable. I'll take the huge dogs, plus the neonatal lawn ornaments and ruminants. I'll call myself the 100-200lb specialist.
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LOVE IT!:laugh:
 
eventualeventer said:
I'll take Newfoundlands, Wolfhounds, Danes, Mastiffs, and the generic Huge White Sheep-Guarding Dog (Pyrenees, Akbash, Maremma, etc.) -- anything that's at least the size of a small pony,
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I will have to fight you for them, (OH St. Bernards are AMAZING, too!!) but I would also have to add herding dogs. Give me the heelers, border collies, aussies, and g. shepherds.

Just nothing under 25-30 pounds.
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Sophie10 said:
We'll have to make them more popular so there are enough to split!! I think I've seen less than 10 in 2 years. 🙁
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I agree!!! I've seen a few more, though mainly because pretty much all the breeding stock around where i used to live had hip dysplasia, and I worked for a specialist surgeon 🙁 Luckily, due to their petite size, they respond really well to femoral head excision 🙂
 
sunshinevet said:
I agree!!! I've seen a few more, though mainly because pretty much all the breeding stock around where i used to live had hip dysplasia, and I worked for a specialist surgeon 🙁 Luckily, due to their petite size, they respond really well to femoral head excision 🙂
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Aw, poor babies! We can also open up a sheltie rescue!
 
DVMDream said:
I will have to fight you for them, (OH St. Bernards are AMAZING, too!!) but I would also have to add herding dogs. Give me the heelers, border collies, aussies, and g. shepherds.
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No idea why you guys would be fighting over having to deal with livestock guardian dogs, they are huge jerks. 😉
 
nyanko said:
No idea why you guys would be fighting over having to deal with livestock guardian dogs, they are huge jerks. 😉
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Naawwwww. They're just misunderstood! For the same reasons, i call pitbulls! 😍
 
Right now I have several ideas of what I want to do:
Small animal/exotic
Shelter
Feline only

I picked "Small Animal", but one of my interrests is rodents, small exotics... things like that. There aren't very many small animal vets in the area who will look at anything that isn't a dog, cat or rabbit. My current vet isn't specialized in them, but she won't refuse them. She goes through her literature with clients and comes up with a treatment plan from there.
 
I like food animal, specifically USDA, specifically FSIS... I guess I could do APHIS, but then I'd have to see non-food animals, too... I don't know about that. I like my animals to be practical!
 
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