August Heat

Finally, finally, finally.... some rain. Our poor Ontario farmers really need it. The price of hay is going up, and the quality is going down since this crazy draught of a summer started. Also worried about corn and soy... Consumers will be the last to feel the economic burden of feed prices sky rocketing. Another point to the vegetarians. Ha.

Ok, so other than being dog sick right now. Not much on the exciting news front.

My colleague and I are finished with the 2016's Orientation Handbook. It was nice to clear some unimportant info out of there. Turned it from a 50 page document with changing formats to a set of "chapters" that can all be accessed seperately so you can print out only what is important to you (30 pages in all). It is formatted beautifully and illustrated by us. It looks amazing, if I do say so myself! Our next project is a map of the OVC. Older classes mentioned that they have seen some, but no one can direct us to a person who knows. Alas, we have to start from cratch, drawing up the floor plan ourselves. Then we will artsy-fartsy it up with some more illustrations. Because we can! Ha!
His link as promised: http://vetcartoonist.blogspot.ca/
Please visit and give love :)



Illustrations © 2012 Vishal Murthy

I am prepping (at least mentally) to take on next years courses. This year is going to get a lot tougher, but the trade off is that it is much more practical.

VETM*3220 - Art of Veterinary Medicine II
Continuation of AVM I - communication and general knowledge of the profession
VETM*3410 - Health Management II
Continuation of HM I - more herd health <3
VETM*3440 - Clinical Medicine II
Continuation of CM I - we will continue with how to take proper histories, do physical exams, and perform basic procedures, with some more emphasis on abnormal findings
VETM*3450 - Principles of Disease in Veterinary Medicine
Our 2.75 credit course X_X - covers basic pathology, immune responses to trauma and disease, bacteria, viruses, parasites, other infectious agents. you get the picture. it is a lot of content and will include a lot of weekly or biweekly quizes.... and lots of labs... and a huge lab exam as well as written. So it will be similar in structure to anatomy with more content.
VETM*3460 - Theriogenology
A course just on sex! Hhaha. Also gestation, parturition, and life up to weaning.
VETM*3470 - Anaesthesiology and Pharmacology
A course just on drugs! :)
VETM*3510 - Principles of Surgery
Our first glimpse into the large world of surgery. pretty general stuff to start. i will give you lots of details once we get into this later.

Ok one quick patient story:
We had a client call us saying that her newly purchased miniature pony just foaled.
"Okkkkkkkay....?" Not really a concern. Did it struggle? Is the foal alive? Premature? What?
Well just gave birth. After a 5 hour hot trailer ride. And no one knew she was preggos.
"Oh shit."
Needless to say it was premature and a bit dummy. Was on foal watch for a bit, fluids, oxygen, nasogastric tube. Went in for an umbilical hernia surgery, recovered well. After a week of intensive care she got to go home relatively healthy.
BUT HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A MINIATURE PONY FOAL??????!?!?!?!?!?!
SO EFFING CUTE.
Obviously I cannot show you pictures but it looked similar to this:

Squeee worthy for sure.

We also had some jerseys in this week. I am in love.

Until next time.