Dining hall birds

[Fjgrogan]

Vets as doctors - so they should be. It must be so much more difficult to train as a vet and have to be familiar with the inner workings of all different kinds of animals, birds etc, whereas the 'human' doctor only has to cope with one type of anatomy.

[sejintenej]

Vets as doctors - so they should be. It must be so much more difficult to train as a vet and have to be familiar with the inner workings of all different kinds of animals, birds etc, whereas the 'human' doctor only has to cope with one type of anatomy.

Not only does a vet have to have excellent knowledge of anatomy, diseases, conditions etc. just like a "human" doctor but the extra couple of years training qualifies him/her as a surgeon as well. I have heard of cases of vets carrying out successful operations on humans in extreme conditions (no doctors available).

[Jo]

One of our former vets (well ok, our cats' former vets) stitched up a colleague's scalp when she was badly trampled by a cow. Apparently she had the choice of waiting for a doctor or letting him go ahead and do it, and she opted for the latter. Without an anaesthetic, if I remember correctly - brave woman!

[englishangel]

While talking to the vet treating our rabbit and saying I was no good with sick animals, he said he had delivered every animal from a hamster to a horse, but could not even watch when his own children were born.

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/818078-pet- ... -then-dies

[jhopgood]

One of our former vets (well ok, our cats' former vets) stitched up a colleague's scalp when she was badly trampled by a cow. Apparently she had the choice of waiting for a doctor or letting him go ahead and do it, and she opted for the latter. Without an anesthetic, if I remember correctly - brave woman!

Women are pretty good at these things.
My wife cut herself when I was away and it was not feasible to get her quickly to a health centre.
She pulled a hair from her head, threaded it and sewed up the wound, after she had cleaned it, of course.
Healed with very little sign of a scar.
Pretty good for someone who left bl**dy fingernail imprints in the palm of my hand when when she first got blood taken, and still prefers tablets to injections.