Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[MaryJanet]

I find the differences between the veterinary professions in the US and Australia very interesting. Why are so many Australian vets ready and able for avian work? I would have thought the large numbers of bird pets in the US cities and suburbs would have created sufficient demand for the vet schools to put avian specialties in their degrees or something like that. What am I not getting?

Tax! Hooray!

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Industrial poultry farmers do not treat their chickens as we do. That's the problem. I truly wish it was easier to learn because I would make it my next career. I could not even get into a vet school and then they would not teach me what I want to know.

Vet school is hard to get into, not because it's hard but because they restrict applicants on purpose, and I don't think that is an urban legend/misinformation. At least that used to be the practice. Years ago a friend of ours, highly qualified, wanted to be a vet but could not get into the schools. He became a doctor instead!

 

[BY Bob]

I find the differences between the veterinary professions in the US and Australia very interesting. Why are so many Australian vets ready and able for avian work? I would have thought the large numbers of bird pets in the US cities and suburbs would have created sufficient demand for the vet schools to put avian specialties in their degrees or something like that. What am I not getting?

It truly is perplexing, yet it is so. I cannot explain it.

 

[BY Bob]

Tax! Hooray!

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Isn't paying your chicken tax fun!

 

[MaryJanet]

Isn't paying your chicken tax fun!

I love it!!

Taxes:

 

[BY Bob]

Vet school is hard to get into, not because it's hard but because they restrict applicants on purpose, and I don't think that is an urban legend/misinformation. At least that used to be the practice. Years ago a friend of ours, highly qualified, wanted to be a vet but could not get into the schools. He became a doctor instead!

Much easier to be a human doctor apparently.

 

[BY Bob]

I love it!!

Taxes:

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That is a special photo of a special lady. I love it.

 

[MaryJanet]

Vet school is hard to get into, not because it's hard but because they restrict applicants on purpose, and I don't think that is an urban legend/misinformation. At least that used to be the practice. Years ago a friend of ours, highly qualified, wanted to be a vet but could not get into the schools. He became a doctor instead!

It's hard to get into here too, yet we still have avian specialists. When I was a kid, I needed 95/100 for year 12 high school to getinto vet science. I ended up working instead of going to uni (I earned my degree in my late 20s). Not sure what vet sci threshold is nowadays, but it ought to be quite high still.

 

[MaryJanet]

Much easier to be a human doctor apparently.

Humans have language. It'd be much easier to diagnose himans than animals.

 

[MaryJanet]

That is a special photo of a special lady. I love it.

One of her rare "I'm not on surveillance duty" moments.