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[bodldops]

It is hot.

No, really.

106 degrees in the shade hot.

Dear Mr Client person: Do not call us out in the afternoon to do a long procedure. You are making vet students cry, and we already have enough to cry about, say thankya.

SPEAKING OF WHICH: I am now a second year student. I PASSED! *does the dance of great joy* Of course, being in clinics, I now know just how much I don't know. But that is okay. That is why I am here.

Also? It amuses us greatly when you call up and ask that 'the smart vet' be sent out today. Especially when your horse has only been seen one time by us, EVER. You make us laugh.

Here is another thing I want to know: Why is it okay, in some peoples' minds, to leave their horse out in a field with no shade in 100+ degree heat? Horses get hot too. ... As do vet students that get called out to treat said horses in the field with no shade. *melts, slightly*

I'm on call Saturday night. I am not sure if I'm really really hoping I get called in, because oooh cool emergency, or really really hoping I don't get called in, because the shift is from 8pm to 8am, so. Either way, it's better than being on call during the day, when there's supposedly 110+ weather predicted. FUN!

Lessee, what else...

Huh. Am reading job offer up on the wall for a dairy practice up in Wisconsin. They visit some amish farms, evidently, on top of everything else. I wonder if there's any restrictions put on what the vet can do, in those sorts of situations. Curious.

Evidently there is some deranged idiot setting fires along the three major highways in the Sacramento area. Very, very not cool, git. We all have to breathe that air, you know, and the delta breeze isn't coming for another week, if the forecasters are right. Grr.

Ahem. Gordon Ramsay makes me happy. As does Philipe. That is all. I wonder if there are Hell's Kitchen icons.

Argh. Am tired, and I have no idea why. I didn't do a whole lot of physical work today, no handfloats or anything. That last horse was a handful, but it was only the one horse. Grr. Not cool, self.

*waits for fellow student to get done price-checking for a client so we can go get fruit and such. Yum*

Comments

[hoppytoad79.livejournal.com]

Anyone who leaves an animal out on a day like that with no shade should be made to, themselves, stay out in the field. The animal that's been left out, however, gets to go into an air-conditioned space, drink lots of cool water, and be treated for whatever heat-related conditions it is suffering. The asshat who left the animal out, however, will get to walk themselves back to an un-air-conditioned space and get their own water and cool down as best they can where there's no air-conditioning. :p

[bodldops.livejournal.com]

Agreed. Fervently.

[hoppytoad79.livejournal.com]

More power to ya for going to vet school. Just thinking about that makes me go all x.x. *shrug* To each, their own path. There are enough jobs to get done for everyone to find what suits them best.

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

Amen. This is definitely a field reserved for those who actually like this kind of thing. I don't think someone who didn't get a kick out of this sort of thing, and who hated the ungodly am on-call emergency, would be able to cut it. It'd just be too much.

[hoppytoad79.livejournal.com]

No one who doesn't have a calling for any demanding job is going to last if their heart isn't in it. They wouldn't last through vet tech school, nevermind vet school. I'd say the same for medical school. Law school is hard and demanding but that's only three years so it's survivable.

[silveraspen]

YAY second year! I am delighted on your behalf.

And oh the poor HORSES. I smite people on behalf of InnerSusan, you, and my own horrified self.

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

Oi, I'd love to have a Susan to throw at these gits. She'd give'em an earful.