This past month has been so exciting for me! Junior surgery has
been my favorite third-year class all semester-but lately it's
gotten even better. We recently graduated from goat and rabbit
surgeries to cat and dog spays. Whoop! We are divided into groups
of three for the semester and rotate though being the surgeon,
assistant surgeon, and anesthetist for the procedures. This past
month, every Friday afternoon cats and dogs from local animal
shelters were transported to the vet school. The student scheduled
to be surgeon that week took care of their assigned animal every
morning and night.
I was the assistant surgeon for our first shelter dog. Though we
were nervous and the surgery took a little longer than what an
experienced vet could do, everything went well, and our new spayed
friend could go back into the world to be adopted. Several of my
classmates got so attached to their surgery dogs that they ended up
taking them home themselves. I wa...
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