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<blockquote data-quote="simme" data-source="post: 1642945" data-attributes="member: 40418"><p>The vet situation is definitely different these days than 30, 40 or 50 years ago. Back in the day, most vet students were good ole country boys - most of which were big enough or strong enough or brave enough to chase and manhandle cows. Now, almost all of the new graduates are female, many that have never been on a farm and think that large animal is a horse or an animal in a zoo. My daughter has a farm/cattle background, but is not able to man (woman?) handle a cow, or rope a cow. At her first job out of vet school in a mixed animal practice, she learned that one of the new doctors the previous year had used the cap-chur gun on a cow, walked up to the down cow, cow jumps up, runs her over, she goes to the hospital with lots of broken bones, and had months of recovery. Daughter is not strong enough, big enough, or brave enough to jump out and get the cow tied to the truck bumper (some of the women are!). Even in the old days, sometimes the truck suffered as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="simme, post: 1642945, member: 40418"] The vet situation is definitely different these days than 30, 40 or 50 years ago. Back in the day, most vet students were good ole country boys - most of which were big enough or strong enough or brave enough to chase and manhandle cows. Now, almost all of the new graduates are female, many that have never been on a farm and think that large animal is a horse or an animal in a zoo. My daughter has a farm/cattle background, but is not able to man (woman?) handle a cow, or rope a cow. At her first job out of vet school in a mixed animal practice, she learned that one of the new doctors the previous year had used the cap-chur gun on a cow, walked up to the down cow, cow jumps up, runs her over, she goes to the hospital with lots of broken bones, and had months of recovery. Daughter is not strong enough, big enough, or brave enough to jump out and get the cow tied to the truck bumper (some of the women are!). Even in the old days, sometimes the truck suffered as well. [/QUOTE]
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