What I Learned in School Today.
Every student always hates the dreaded question "so, what did you learn today in school?" Here are some of the things I have learned in vet school. Some of these things are serious, some of them are funny; but all of them are true!
Enjoy!
5-19-04
Don’t eat a whale that’s been beached for three weeks
Limit your maggot consumption or you’ll get botulism
5-20-04
Cockatoos have heart-shaped heart
When you’re clipping wings, don’t take their glide off
Budgerigars are little tumor factories
Size does matter (when it comes to tumors, that is)
5-24-04
Dogs don’t need much of a brain to be a good pet
No “heavy petting” after removal of a brain tumor
5-26-04
65 pounds is a lot of papilloma, even if you’re an 800 lb Hereford
Zoo carnivores are fed processed horsemeat
5-27-04
It’s hard to distinguish different types of bots in cattle
If you get swelling around the trachea it’s difficult to breathe
6-1-04
No matter how hard you try, it’s hard to get excited about consecutive slides of bird poop
When it comes to bird diarrhea, the greener it is the worse the disease
Baby birds whine when they get sick (just like men)
If you want to find drug resistant Haemonchus, buy some goats from Texas
Your digestive enzymes shouldn’t be in your blood stream
6-3-04
Pigs aren’t built for speed
Ruminants salivate as a way of life
Bulldogs are great dogs, but they don’t live very long
6-4-04
In order to bite people, you have to be able to breathe
If you rupture your heart (or your Aorta), you are going to die
6/4/04
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