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<blockquote data-quote="Engler" data-source="post: 436612" data-attributes="member: 4110"><p>It's tough to find good vets everywhere. Dad's farm is 10 miles from a "great" vet school and I went through undergrad with a bunch of them, not pretty. Yes there are more women than men, yes there are a lot of book educated dumb donkeys that know squat about working cows, but those schools make the rules and until the demands change for finished product(new vets) than why change the process.</p><p></p><p>On the flip side, how many times have you heard about this- 3:00 in the morning(probably colder than @%#*), call for a hard pull, no working facilities, turns into a c-section, three hours later vet gives farmer a bill for $300 and the old guy about has the big one. Or the vet can have a puppy/kitty practice, 8:00-5:00 (maybe one evening/week), climate controled and you can tell old Mrs. Johnson 'I don't know if it will work, but we can try this to save Fluffy. It will cost $1,500 and it's 50:50 at best' and she'll do it. </p><p></p><p>I couldn't do the job. Six figure education and either I'd starve doing something I liked (large) or go crazy doing something I hate. I guess what I'm saying is when you do get a good vet do whatever you can to keep them because as I tried to tell a boss at one time-retaining a good employee is a lot cheaper, faster and easier than retraing a new employee.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Engler, post: 436612, member: 4110"] It's tough to find good vets everywhere. Dad's farm is 10 miles from a "great" vet school and I went through undergrad with a bunch of them, not pretty. Yes there are more women than men, yes there are a lot of book educated dumb donkeys that know squat about working cows, but those schools make the rules and until the demands change for finished product(new vets) than why change the process. On the flip side, how many times have you heard about this- 3:00 in the morning(probably colder than @%#*), call for a hard pull, no working facilities, turns into a c-section, three hours later vet gives farmer a bill for $300 and the old guy about has the big one. Or the vet can have a puppy/kitty practice, 8:00-5:00 (maybe one evening/week), climate controled and you can tell old Mrs. Johnson 'I don't know if it will work, but we can try this to save Fluffy. It will cost $1,500 and it's 50:50 at best' and she'll do it. I couldn't do the job. Six figure education and either I'd starve doing something I liked (large) or go crazy doing something I hate. I guess what I'm saying is when you do get a good vet do whatever you can to keep them because as I tried to tell a boss at one time-retaining a good employee is a lot cheaper, faster and easier than retraing a new employee. [/QUOTE]
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