Vet Student at Košice

My last birthday during vet school! Rob flew out on Friday and left on Monday, and even though it was a short time, we still had a lovely weekend. Friday was a typical half-day, we watched part of Cruella (just couldn't bring ourselves to finish it!) and eating. This was the set up for the surgeries!     On Saturday, Nicole and I were up at 6:30am to go to a Romani village called Ostrovany to spay some dogs. A vet that graduated last year organised a spay campaign with a local shelter, who captured the dogs for us. There were 3 vets doing the surgeries, and 11 students helping out. 2 of the students were 5th year Slovak students who were collecting blood and rectal swab samples for their diploma thesis. In total, 11 dogs were spayed, 1 cat spay and 1 cat neuter. It was a pretty hectic start - one vet had never done a spay before today (!) so we were supposed to only anaesthetise 2 dogs so one vet could do one, and he could watch the other vet, but people were a bit gung-ho, and 3