When it’s freezing cold out and it’s snowing or raining, sometimes you’re just like, I’m going to let the dog poop on the floor in the house. I feel like people really believe, and we’ve had many clients or owners say, “I’m going to take care of this animal because it takes care of me.” They devote their time, and more so I would say even, than with pet animals. How does it change the dynamic between a vet and a patient’s owner when it’s an animal that somebody loves but also relies on for their livelihood? How does the dynamic shift when that’s the case?Įrin: I don’t know that it does. People will call us and say, “Hey, would you like someone who has a pet cow in our clinic?” Can you tell me what you know, share some information?” And vice versa. We phone friends all the time and say, “Hey, how here’s what we’ve got. Even in a county that has no stoplights, we are still able to have access to information from all over. We’re going to figure it out for you and we’re going to solve this problem.”Įrin: That’s one wonderful thing about technology. We’re going to figure it out, and we’re going to tell the owner, “Hey, this isn’t what we do every day, but give us a little time. But if we don’t know about an iguana or another type of strange animal that’s coming in the door, we’re still going to see it. I think dogs and cats are definitely (Erin’s), just because of the sheer numbers that we see. Is there a particular animal that would come in that you’re better at diagnosing than the others? Do you have specialties?īen: Because of the numbers, I feel like cows are for sure my specialty. There’s a lot of personal connection with our clientele. We might coach against your kids.īen: I’ve got a list of many clients in my contacts right here on my phone where, if they want to call me anytime, they can. (In a small town) we’re going to see you probably later that night.Įrin: We might coach your kids. When you go to the vet, you’re on the appointment schedule, you get your 20, 30 minutes and you’re out the door. I think that’s some of what gets lost in a bigger city. We formed the splint and that little guy’s doing great with his bad leg. Took it to Erin, and she of course figured it out right away with a little more investigation. He didn’t find out really what was the problem. Read more: Seven Worlds, One Planet Brings the World to North Americaīen: And she had taken it to an exotic veterinarian in a bigger city. But Whitey the chicken was a house pet and that was a great story about an animal that’s considered livestock being this lady’s pet. I don’t know that my kids were cute with diarrhea, but these piglets sure were. What were some of your memories of shooting that episode and do you think that’s a nice diverse collection of animals to open with?Įrin: They still were cute with diarrhea. In the first episode you treat a cow, a chicken, and some piglets… We’re hoping that we provide everybody with just a basic understanding of how things work out here. We certainly hope that we really can kind of educate. We work with a lot of family farms and their perspectives were changed in the matter of the first week off filming. This isn’t how we thought it was done.” There’s so much more compassion, there’s so much more substance to the people and to the care that they take of their animals. After the first week, they just said, “This is really not at all what we thought raising animals was about. But you know, even our production crew, when they came out and started filming for the show, just couldn’t believe some things. It’s stunning in that part of the country. Erin is actually a born and raised New Yorker.Įrin: Upstate New York. I think this show is going to bridge that gap. So we’re kind of nervous about people elsewhere, away from the Heartland, not knowing really what we do. We have people that we do work for with a dairy farm or a beef farm that are afraid when the film crew comes that bad things are going to be put out there about them – that they aren’t doing justice to their animals. What are some of the misconceptions you encounter about being a veterinarian and working in Nebraska?īen: I think there are misconceptions each way. DEN OF GEEK: I would imagine you guys are in both a profession and a part of the country that there are a lot of misconceptions about.
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