Happy Birthday Mom!!!

Wanted to send a big Happy Birthday Hug to Mom!! Your the best, and I wish I could be down in so cal to celebrate the day with you. Love you lots!

Get Well Soon Riley!

Just wanted to send a get well message for my friend, Lissa's dog Riley. He underwent exploratory surgery yesterday, to remove a trichobezoar. I'm sure your wondering what the heck that is!! So was I! Apparently it's an extremely persistent form of a hairball, that can form a gastrointestinal obstruction. But it's very rare, and Riley was very lucky to have it diagnosed and subsequently removed. Very lucky for an 11 year old dog...but we all know how hardy those Jack Russells are :) Get well Riley!

Kittens are gone :(

The last 2 kittens (Athena and Bear) went to their new home yesterday! Sad to see them go as they were 2 of our favorites, but they got to go together to a wonderful family here in Davis. Thought I'd post the last couple pics of them.

Saturday morning blahs

I'm slacking on the blog posting already...but it's been a busy week with afternoon labs every day. I'm finally sitting down this morning and studying for my Pharmacology exam (boring!!!) So many other ways I'd rather spend my saturday, but it has to be done :( Randy made us homemade waffles this morning (yum!) and I've had about 5 cups of coffee, so I'm speeding right along. I did manage to fit in some time for fun yesterday, and took a nice relaxing trail ride. I've posted a picture of our trail ride...Jen and Rose are leading the way, Zoe and Sizzle are on the left, and I'm riding Baley (I guess we're not in the picture). Baley is our friend Alana's rescued Thoroughbred, who I've been riding since my horse is lame (big surprise, he really hasn't been sound since I got him!) Hope you all enjoy your weekend, and the last week of daylight savings :)

Some labs are fun!

So, today we had an Oncology exam (yuck), and an Equine Lab (yay!). Nothing against Oncology...it's a really interesting class. Did you know that 1 in 8 Golden Retrievers will get Lymphoma, yet Pomeranians are 10 times less likely to get it? Anyways, the weekly ritual of monday morning exams gets real old...real fast. Our afternoon lab was fun though, and we actually got to touch real animals (a rare occurrance in the first 2 years of vet school!) Every once in a while they let us do some cool stuff and then we remember why we all wanted to become vets so badly. I posted some pics...we each got to practice doing physical exams, giving various injections, and each placed an IV Catheter. Fun Stuff :)

friday.....finally

What a long week. 2 exams, 3 afternoon labs, 1 afternoon ultrasound discussion, and 1 ultrasound wetlab later.....it's finally friday. Thank goodness. The kittens had their surgeries today, and seem to be recovering well. Brutus and Jane will go to their new (and very excited) owners tomorrow. I'm so happy to have found such wonderful homes for these kittens. It seems there's no shortage of animal lovers in Davis....I love that:) I'm looking forward to a relaxing friday night...waiting for Phil and Jen to come back with takeout from the Habit (not sure if you all have that down south), and a movie (hopefully Indiana Jones) since we never made it to the theater to see that one! I decided to blow off the TG tonight...sometimes it seems like I have spent entirely too much time at school in 1 week, and it's so much better to hang out at home. For those of you who don't know...TG's are the friday vet school bbq's...lots of food, dogs and beer. Thought I'd post a picture of our newest member of the family...Tobey. The story of how we acquired him is a topic for another day...

Update

Update...all of the kittens have homes! Yay! That must be a record...4 kittens adopted in 3 days...I guess that petfinder website really does work :)

Kittens, kittens and more kittens

The Davis house is truly bursting at the seams with animals. These are 3 of my 4 foster kittens for the Orphan Kitten Project. It's been a while since I've had fosters in the house and I forgot how much work they are, and how much fun they are :) The kittens are Brutus, Athena, Jane and Bear. 3 have been adopted in the last 2 days, but will stay with us until they are spayed/ neutered and are ready to go. Well, I've procrastinated long enough...exam tomorrow...and I'm about as sick as I could be of foreign animal diseases....anthrax, avian influenza...it's a very depressing subject to study, if you ask me. Hoping for a less windy day tomorrow!