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You've had a lot handed to you, and you are very privileged. This is not going to actually help you in any career that requires real work. Veterinary medicine is definitely not for you. It does NOT pay well and it is NOT "fun". You would be dealing with people who don't bring their animals in until they're practically dead, and expect you to magically save them. "I saw this" example: A cat with a facial tumor that had already eaten away all of the nose and the front of the upper jaw and was starting work on the cheek bones.
Many people can't afford emergency treatments, so you may end up euthanising an otherwise healthy animal. Example: 1 year old cat got hit by a car. Royally crunched a front leg and his pelvis. Would have required several thousand in surgery bills. Owner elected to euthanise because they could not come up with that money. He was a really sweet cat, too.
You will be injured at some point. Badly. A cat bite that gets infected could cause you to lose a hand... or an entire arm. Dogs can tear off bits of your face before you realise it. Large animals such as horses and cows can kill you.
 
Shiari said:
You've had a lot handed to you, and you are very privileged. This is not going to actually help you in any career that requires real work. Veterinary medicine is definitely not for you. It does NOT pay well and it is NOT "fun". You would be dealing with people who don't bring their animals in until they're practically dead, and expect you to magically save them. "I saw this" example: A cat with a facial tumor that had already eaten away all of the nose and the front of the upper jaw and was starting work on the cheek bones.
Many people can't afford emergency treatments, so you may end up euthanising an otherwise healthy animal. Example: 1 year old cat got hit by a car. Royally crunched a front leg and his pelvis. Would have required several thousand in surgery bills. Owner elected to euthanise because they could not come up with that money. He was a really sweet cat, too.
You will be injured at some point. Badly. A cat bite that gets infected could cause you to lose a hand... or an entire arm. Dogs can tear off bits of your face before you realise it. Large animals such as horses and cows can kill you.
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i dont wanna be a vet anymore...:awcrap::cry:
 
Don't forget aborting entire litters of puppies and kittens when someone brings their heavily pregnant pet in for an E-Spay.
 
If you don't like killing animals or watching them die for any reason, I would suggest staying out of veterinary medicine, or, for that matter, many other animal-related careers, including working at animal shelters/humane societies.

If you don't have an iron stomach, and if you can't harden your heart to pain and death, stay out of the animal care field.

As someone who worked for years in shelters and/or as a vet tech, and whose responsibilities including euthanizing cats and dogs, believe me, if you can't harden yourself to the realities of such a world, it'll haunt your dreams and your life for decades to come.

After giving that up, I became a Special Ed teacher. I wouldn't suggest that, either. Extremely stressful, and office politics are office politics, no matter where you work.

I'd say, retire now, while you're ahead :).
 
Not to mention that it's a very thankless job. You could save someone's pet and they will still treat you like garbage, ignore all your advice, and go back to doing whatever made their pet sick in the first place.
 
Candachan said:
Don't forget aborting entire litters of puppies and kittens when someone brings their heavily pregnant pet in for an E-Spay.
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Nothing quite like sticking a plunger into teeny wriggling puppies still in the uterus and killing them before they've had a chance to draw air. I concede the need to do these procedures because of the millions of dogs and cats euthanized in shelters each year, but gods it is hard on the people performing the procedure.
 
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