- What else have you taken out of a dog's stomach?
- Underwear.
Weird huh?
- Underwear?
Dog's eat a lot of underwear.
(light music)
Hi, guys.
- Hi.
- How are you?
- Good and you? - Good.
- I'm Oscar.
- Nice to meet you Oscar.
- Alice. - Alice nice to meet you.
- I'm Sherry.
- I'm Jolena.
- Jolena nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you, too.
- What are we doing today?
- What do you think we're doing?
- A person who puts tattoos.
- Oh, a tattoo artist?
- Ahuh. - No.
- I know you're some kind of doctor.
- She has that thing.
- Mhm, stethoscope. - Yeah.
- I'm expecting a veterinarian.
- Oh, nice job.
- Well, because her shirt says animal
and she looks like a doctor.
- I'm a doctor for,
not people.
- Animals? - Yeah.
- I always wanted to meet a vet.
- You did?
Well, today's the day.
- Wait, are you gonna turn into a doggy?
- Uh, no.
- How long have you been doing it?
- I've been a veterinarian for about 20 years.
- You should know lots about.
- I should, I should.
If I don't, it's a problem.
- What's your favorite animal to work with?
- Probably dogs.
- Dogs are my favorite animal.
- Yeah? Do you have a dog?
- Yes. - You do?
- This is like my first dog that's all mine.
And I feed him, and I take him out for walks,
clean up after him.
- You're doing all of it.
- Have you ever helped a cougar?
- No, but I wish.
- A whale?
- No, but I wish.
- Have you ever had to work on a turtle?
- I have worked on a turtle.
Lizards and turtles, mainly just when I did emergency work,
and then you have to kind of treat everything
'cause you're the only one around, right?
It's the middle of the night,
and so you've got to see it all.
- Have you ever, ever worked on a horse?
- Yeah, when I was in vet school
and I put my arm in a horse's butt.
Not kidding.
You check to see if they're pregnant,
you do an ultrasound from inside.
- Why?
- I know, that's how you do it.
I know, but you wear a glove, a big, long glove.
Yeah, phew.
- What's the grossest part of your job?
- Grossest thing is probably a constipated cat.
- How do you help a constipated cat?
- Well, sometimes you just give them an enema.
Just put something up there to help lubricate things,
and then you put them in a quiet place,
and see if they can work it out.
And sometimes they can't, so then sometimes,
they have to be sedated and you have to go in
and help with gloves, mind you.
- I can't, I know, but.
- It's not a glamorous job, Willow.
It's not glamorous at all.
- Why did you want to be a vet?
- 'Cause I always loved animals.
- Same.
- Do you want to be a vet?
- It's up there in like the top 15.
- Top 15?
Wow.
- You want to be a veterinarian?
- No. - No?
What do you want to be when you grow up?
- I want to be a veterinarian.
- You do? - Yes.
- Do you know how long you have to go to school?
- No.
- Four years of college
and then four years of veterinary school.
That's a lot of grades.
- Yeah, and then there's not very many veterinary schools.
There's schools to be a human doctor all over the place,
and to be a veterinarian, there's less than 40
in the whole country.
It's hard to get in.
- How much does it cost to go to school like that?
- It's gonna be a lot.
People are graduating from veterinary school
and they're $300,000 in debt.
A lot.
- Are you still paying back your loans?
- I think I will be forever. (laughs)
I'm on the 30-year plan.
Do you still wanna be a vet?
- Yes.
- Good, good answer.
Don't let me scare you off.
It's pretty cool job.
- Do vets make lots and lots of money?
- I would say no.
- How much do they make then?
- Way less than human doctors make, how about that?
- You don't do it for the money?
- No, that would be a mistake if you became
a veterinarian for the money.
- Was there ever an animal that you couldn't save?
- Yeah, sometimes they're too sick
and we have to help them, you know, pass,
or we say put them to sleep.
It's pretty sad sometimes, a lot of crying.
- How many animals have you had to put down?
- More than I can count.
Is that sad? - Yeah.
- So, probably if I had to guess, hundreds.
- I used to have a cat, but he passed away.
- He did? - Yeah.
- Did you have to take him to the vet
to have them help pass away?
- Yeah. - Yeah?
- He got hit by a car and he was still alive,
but he was limping.
- I had a cat get hit by a car once, too.
- Really? - Yeah.
My own, I was really sad. - Yeah.
- What's that scratching noise I hear?
- My dog. - That's Norman.
- Hi Norman, hi.
- He just got neutered.
- He got neutered?
So how's he doing since being neutered?
- He doesn't like the giant cone.
- He's like, must get off.
- So, this is Jupiter.
- What kind of snake is he?
- A dwarf albino king snake.
- Can we pet him?
- Yeah. - Does he like it?
- Maybe? - Maybe?
But you like it.
- I like it. - Yeah, that's cool.
Have you looked at his little incision
at all? - Yeah.
- Yeah? Does it look pretty good?
- It looks weird.
- Should I look?
- Sure. - If you want to.
- Norman, are you okay if I look?
Yeah? Oh, I know.
- Is it over?
- Oh, it looks really good.
It looks really good.
- How many tools do you use?
- This is an otoscope, so meaning "oto" means ear.
And then, this is an opthalmoscope,
and that's to look at the eyes.
- What way do you do this thing?
- So you look through here.
You look through there and then you look into a dog's eye,
and then you see the retina.
Do you know what this is?
- A listen to your heart thingy.
- Yeah.
- Yeah. - Hey Norman, hi.
Pretty cool, huh? - Yeah.
- What else is in that bag?
- Bandage material.
- (gasps) Dogs wear bandages?
- It's called Vet wrap.
- Whoa.
- Oh, it sticks to each other. - Yeah.
There, there's your bandage.
- You're smart.
- I'd like to think so.
(laughing)
- Do you love your job?
- I mean, to get to see cats and dogs everyday,
I mean, that's pretty awesome.
- Do you like the animals more than people?
- Maybe.
(both laugh)
Even when they're naughty and trying to bite me.
- And one more question, can I work with you
when I get old?
- You send me your resume and I will totally
consider hiring you.
- Okay.
- Thank you.
- Thank you for your time.
- Yeah, it was nice talking to you.
- Bye bye.
Nice to meet you guys. - See you next time.
- See you. - See you.
- Bye bye.
- Hi, I'm Doctor Sherry Trushime.
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