caelan tree

"bag of water" makes a comeback, as in "puppies have a naturally low hematocrit because they are basically bags of water"

(as in, "that girl is a bag of water")

NAVLE can bite me, I'm so very tired of farm animal toxicology and pig diarrhea

you know when you arrive at your destination and you need to go do the stuff you have to do but you have full on car paralysis and cannot move from the driver's seat? I hear not everyone experiences this

NAVLE prep is absolutely sending me. literally "what is this concept I've never heard of" and then I look at my course notes and it's nowhere to be seen. or it's mentioned on a slide, once, as an aside, in the entire curriculum. WHAT

the sabrina carpenter album cover is giving "smell the glove"; the general response to critcs is giving "what's wrong with being sexy?" #spinaltap

the goat dystocia with her dead kid's head hanging out of her vulva, flopping around (will save you all photographic evidence of that one)

Close up of a gloved hand holding a foal's left eye open. The iris and pupil are obscured by cloudy green infiltrate

the septic foal whose eyes turned green

A standing cow licks her wet newborn calf, lying on a bed of straw. The calf has a heart shaped spot just under her right eye.

moments on clinics that will be poems:

birth of heart face calf while we are euthanized two pregnant cows, one in each adjacent pen, on either side of her

this little Pittsburgh area spay/neuter clinic has changed me in a major way. my brain exploded. my heart is full. I want to do this kind of work forever. with special thanks to @catdr66.bsky.social & her dynamite staff.

I am sorry that my flight out of tiny local airport got delayed indefinitely and I got punted over to Logan, the worst airport of all time, and now I have to get myself to Logan

in the airport security line at our tiny local airport
guy also in line: Florida?
me: no, Pittsburgh
him: I'm sorry. ha ha ha!
me: what's in Florida?
him: golf getaway

sir I'm not sorry about Pittsburgh but I am sorry about *your* life

i super hate that etsy is now a cesspit of AI garbage

I got a measles booster as an adult because my titer was equivocal and 😬😬😬 so glad I did

specifically this is a shout out to Eddy

a mechanic you trust is worth their weight in gold and then some

not the M dash my beloved

I have USDA accreditation training next week and literally is that still going to happen

literally will there be a USDA next week

the first time I saw "freedom fries" in the wild on an actual menu ("French" crossed out & written over in pen) I was in high school and in my naivete didn't imagine how things could be worse

there's "birdiebird" which is my preference

her husband's name is Chad; Chad says Hegseth was a douchebag in high school

my boss told me her husband went to high school with Hegseth and he was a douchebag (her words)

major medical center misspelled my name on my file, and the only way to fix it is to show up physically in person with my ID. they misspelled my email address too so it's absolutely no wonder they couldn't seem to contact me. 🙃

this is so ugly and disingenuous and we are all in hell

oh fantastic and wonderful and great that a literal human being just died of bird flu

the alt right raw milk lobby can truly get bent

this raw pet food situation is also absolutely nauseating and I'm not NOT convinced this is also due to alt right influence

avocado toast generation

I ordered a sandwich for lunch and my boss tut tutted that I will never pay off my student loans like this

every time I study for Horse Class™️ I think about how much I do not want to be a horse vet. I hope I never have to drill a hole in a horse sinus. I hope I never have to splint a broken horse leg. I hope I never have to repair a horse soft palate
#vetschool #vettwitter

we can go to MR which is a state, apparently

running list of therio words & phrases that will become poems someday when I'm not in vet school
- abortion storm
- expulsion of the fetus
- red bag
- dummy foal / "wanderer"
- acorn calf
- fetal monstrosity
- mummification / autolysis / maceration
- "the purge" [PRRS]