Friday, October 16, 2009

SHEEP FEAR ME!

Okay, okay.  Sheep fear everybody, so what?  Well sheep should fear me because I know what the heck I am doing and can flip them up on their tasty rumps in...er...well, longer than it should take but I really just learned this afternoon so I'll get better.  And then I learned how to age them by their teeth and trim their little hooves and theoretically how to stick their jugulars (tough, what with all that wool they wear).  It was so much fun, just the perfect example of Why I Went To Vet School.  Because after working with agricultural animals, one doesn't need to go to the gym.  Because who knew there was a right way to flip a sheep.  Because Suffolk ewes arc joyously skyward in the manner of dolphins or gazelles on the Sahara when finally released from the student-teaching torture chamber.  Because, in this vein, Suffolk ewes will attempt to leap over a 6'2" student delusional enough to think he's going to stop them single-handedly...and they will mostly succeed.

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