FREE ESSAY ON VETERINARY SHADOW DAY

VETERINARY SHADOW DAY

When I first arrived "Lisa" The girl that I shadowed told me that there was an emergency
with one of the animals. It ended up that a one-year-old beagle ate an entire thing of
metabolite, and then slowly started to die. The liver had shut down, and the heart rate
was up to 300. Lisa told me that taking a thing of metabolite was like taking 50 cups of
coffee at once. The owners of the beagle were there and bowling. The beagle's name was
Murry. Murry's body slowly was shutting down one thing after another. The owners made the
decision the dog was going to be put to sleep. We got the dog ready to be taken out. They
undid all the cords from the dog so they could take it to another room. I said goodbye to
the dog, and then they took it into the other room so that the owners could be there when
they put him to sleep. After that happened they then had to put a sleep a little hedgehog
that had cancer on its mouth. We then did two regular checkups with one cat and with one
dog. Those when great. After that we had a dog come in and it ended up having an
affection that might end up killing it. I never heard the end result. The last thing that
I did there was that a black lab had been bitten by another dog, and that dog ripped a
hole in the neck of the black lab. The doctors had to perform surgery on the dog to close
up the holes in the neck. They first had to clean it out with qutips. And blood stated to
come out right then I was a little dizzy and I thought I was going to faint. But thank
god I didn't. I saw a cat get dental work on it. And a cat get a bath and they had to
blow dry it and brush the hair while it was a sleep.
I thought that the work place environment was very clean and very professional. On my
pictures on the poster it shows you that they even had a place for dogs to go in and a
separate place for cats to go in they also have different waiting rooms for each of them.
I could easily be able to work in a place that is that clean, and so organized.
I learned multiple things there from chemicals how much they need how much they use math
and science, to there organization skills, and there abillity to be able to communicate
with the animals and be able to not cry ever time they have to put them to sleep. The
things that they do hardly relate to what I'm doing in school right now, because I'm not
that smart yet. But in science we are learning about different chemicals together and how
they make a reaction. Also I'm learning how to keep everything nice and organized, so I
know where everything that I need is.
I observed many behaviors that they showed that would be important in a lot of jobs. One
of those are there communication skills. To be able to work with many different people
under the type of stress that they can be in is hard. That aplies to a lot of jobs
because a lot of different jobs make you work under a lot of stress with many different
people at the same time.
There are countless skills that you take on with you to college or even work. Kindness,
cleanness, organization, and most of all people skills with out that you not be able to
handle being in a job with other people.
Being a veterinarian is something that I have always even since I was a little girl have
wanted to be. I have always loved animals expesialy dogs. I love to take care of them to
train them, and most of all to make them feel better. This is exactly what a veterinarian
does every day. 
Nothing was really bad about the job shadow. It was a great experience and I had a lot of
fun. But one thing is the animals dying a dog and a hedgehog. It was really sad to see
the owners crying, but to become a veterinarian you have to get used to being around
animals dying , and putting them to sleep often. 
The thing that I liked the most was being able to help them out when they need. Even if
it was just holding the dog or cat down. I loved being in one of the al fits and being
able to interact with the doctors and help out the animals even though I'm under age.
I still more then ever want to be a veterinarian being with the animals and on the site
just built up my hopes of becoming one even more. I cant wait till I go to college and
study about this. This dream of becoming a veterinarian I don't think will ever pass I
want it way to much.
The most important thing that I learned would have to be that you need to be able to
handle yourself in front of patients that are in tears because of there animal. And that
you need to be the steady one not the one that is falling a part because you just put an
animal to sleep