Veterinarian to Be

Hey my name is Meg! I'm currently in high school and planning to go to college for my pre-requisites before applying to vet school. This is just stuff I find interesting relating to the veterinary field along with some cute animals mixed in. Feel free to message me with any questions!

[omtai]

why is it sooo hard to conclude essays. I said all that because fuck you thats why

[sleepy-bebby]

If anyone wants to know what a leopard seal sounds like 🦷🩸

[bandydear]

Leopard Seals are what happens when god needs a lizard and all he has is a mammal

[gallusrostromegalus]

I'd recommend turning the sound on. The seal is not screaming. It's not very loud at all, actually, but the noise it's making is Much Worse.

[log6]

yeah as soon as I wake up no longer fatigued for the first time in my life I'll be set

[arsanatomica]

I just love the idea that normal cats could have this under the fur and we would never know.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/vde.13240

[my-evil-moisture-buddy]

YOUR body is a temple. Mine is a Mojo Dojo Casa House

[tooies]

when a pelican bites you there's no malice in their eyes. they aren't upset at you. they are just hungry and want to see if you fit in their mouths. and if you don't then it's no problem and everything is fine. and if you do then well i guess your fate is sealed but that's ok it's a beautiful animal

[speedlimit15]

you haven’t even begun to breach the depth of my ability to say things that don’t matter at all

[unawakening-float07]

[clonidinecoochie]

[accidentalkilljoys]

[3liza]

Hickam's dictum is a counterargument to the use of Occam's razor in the medical profession.[1] While Occam's razor suggests that the simplest explanation is the most likely, implying in medicine that diagnosticians should assume a single cause for multiple symptoms, one form of Hickam's dictum states: "A man can have as many diseases as he damn well pleases."

[prokopetz]

If you’re going to get a cat, you must understand two things:

1. As far as a cat is concerned, the highest form of entertainment is annoying another cat on purpose.

2. If you have a good rapport with your cat, you count as another cat.

You can divert much of this behaviour by around this by getting two cats, so that they can annoy each other, but tradeoff is that sometimes they’ll decide to team up on you instead.

[vetisntdead]

This is why I have 3, so they gang up like siblings do

[great-and-small]

Sometimes humans are just the best! A very good (and brave) Samaritan brought this eastern diamondback rattlesnake into the hospital after it was hit by a car. Look at this beautiful angry serpent!

That head wound looked pretty concerning so this baby went for a CT scan to assess the damage to its skull and soft tissue.

It might seem crazy that this wild snake could survive a tire to the head, but rattlesnakes are incredibly tough critters. Their heads are so muscular that when they’re struck by a car they can often survive with minimal damage to the bony structures of the head. In this case, the trauma from the tire forced those impressive facial muscles through the skin without breaking any cranial bones. Fortunately, an incredibly skilled exotics veterinarian was able to surgically repair the damage. Here it is after surgery!

This baby did great after the procedure and recovered beautifully. After several weeks in a wildlife rehabilitation facility, this rattlesnake was well enough to be released into the wild. You gotta love a happy ending! I know venomous snakes can get a bad rap, but just because they’re a little scary doesn’t mean they don’t deserve our love and respect.

[thebootydiaries]

dog: lets out the most genuine & affected sigh possible

me: what's happened? who or what has brought such suffering upon your world-weary, furry shoulders? can i do anything? can anything be done? will you ever be at peace? please rest

[gif87a-com]

[whothebuckisfuckybruh-deactivat]

me realizing my experiences with sewing have been a lie this whole goddamn time:

[fuzipenguin]

I don’t know about human surgeons, but that’s a suture pattern I use to close skin all the time and you can see why.

[foreverabrokenfighter]

The slip stitch (or invisible stitch) was created to hide seams and later used by surgeons.

My cousin is a surgeon and was sewing something and used that stitch and then froze and said “Wait this isn’t a person.”

Grandma said “We used it first keep going.”

[duckbunny]

remember not to embroider the patient

[jakemorph]

isopods should be called nice o pods! theyre just nice little pods

[tiktokarchive]

[duhultimatenerd97-deactivated20]

I don’t own a cat but this brilliant

[princesstigerbelle]

No!! Bad idea!!! This is how you end up getting your cat into toliet paper and have you SEEN some of the shits cats do when they mess with the toliet paper???!!! They are toliet paper savages I tell you!!!

[princesstigerbelle]

BOiNG BOING BOiNG

[princesstigerbelle]

SAVAGES I TEL L Y OU

[kedreeva]

Today the lady behind me in line at the grocery store checkout politely tapped my shoulder and when I turned around she motioned toward my giant bundles of kale and asked: “what do you do with your kale? Do you cook with it, or make juice, or…?” And i admitted there in front of god and the world “oh I feed it to my peacocks.” And she just looked so taken aback that I said “I’m sorry that’s not the answer you were hoping for”

And that’s how I learned other people don’t really know what to do with kale either. We’re all pretty sure it’s edible, though.

[kedreeva]

People are sending me kale recipes like they honestly believe I will try to eat bird food

[godith024]

I’m sorry I’m hung up on the part where op owns peacocks

[kedreeva]

Purple ones:

And peahens. This one sleeps on a fluffy rainbow unicorn stuffed animal:

Her name is Artemis and she’s allergic to food.

This is Stan. His color morph is called Cameo so I named him Stan Lee:

He’s Artemis’ boyfriend.

They both love kale. I suppose someone’s got to.

[jupiter235]

OP Tell them I love them!

[writerandstudent]

Are they good guard birds?

[kedreeva]

That depends on your definition of ‘guard.’

They won’t defend other birds from predators like raccoons or weasels or coyotes or anything. They’re just as likely to get eaten in those cases.

However, they will harass snakes and other small, novel animals like mice, rabbits, wild birds, etc if they can get away with it. They will also yell at anything they disapprove of including but not limited to:

Your car

Neighbors

that one leaf that moved in the wind

the wind

deer in the woods

a hawk overhead

an airplane that might be a hawk overhead

each other

a noise they heard

a noise they thought they heard

sparrows

seriously, fuck sparrows specifically, they are DISALLOWED, completely intolerable, must chase off, shake train, and/or yell about it

that one kiwi fruit that was up to no good

the feather that fell off their own body and scared them

thunder (how dare the sky yell at them)

the sun arriving

the sun departing

sometimes predators I guess

[followthebluebell]

He's determined to figure out doors. He's a bit confused but he knows it has something to do with the handle.

[followthebluebell]

update: he accidentally opened the door and got into the main cat room.  He terrorized the other cats by repeatedly headbutting them and purring loudly, causing great offense to the dignified persians, confusion to the CH kitty (who i really need to get a picture of because she’s fantastic), and delight for Roomba.

The other reason Roomba earned her name is because, if she bumps into another cat, she immediately tries to groom them.  This is VERY sweet from a human perspective, but considered pretty rude by cat standards.  She was very happy to meet someone she can groom freely.