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Facts About California Veterinary Services

By Ronald Bell


These are medical practitioners who have specialized in the treatment of animals. There are two kinds of veterinary officers, those who treat wild animals and those who treat domesticated animals. They learn how to treat all kinds of animals but they specialize later on in their studies. They also conduct research on diseases that attack animals and their cure. These are facts about California veterinary services.

For one to become a veterinarian, a bachelors degree is required in veterinary medicine. The course normally takes four years to complete. Most of the units they undertake include anatomy, zoology, microbiology and animal sciences. One needs to be a licensed veterinarian in order to start practicing.

Veterinarians carry out jobs like giving advice to the owner of the animal on what to do. They also provide treatment to the animal and tell the owner when to know it is okay. They also dress wounds and in cases that are advanced, they provide treatment. They undertake all the procedures a doctor does on human such as vaccination, operating medical tools and diagnosis. There are arguments to determine which of the two courses is hard. That is medicine and veterinary.

One of the types of a veterinarian is a food animal veterinarian. This person majorly deals with animals kept for the sole purpose of being a source of food. This kind of veterinarians advise on the kinds of feeds to give the animals. They also do vaccination to prevent diseases affecting them. All this is done to obtain optimization of the meat production of the animals among other animal products.

There are also the food safety and inspection veterinarians who mainly deal with the hygienic status of slaughter houses and the process of slaughtering. They overlook the production of food in the food processing plants and bring out programs meant to help in reducing the spread of diseases. Their duty is to ensure food security of the animals together with the consumers of animal products by spearheading policies on food safety.

Some veterinarians are specialists in research work. Their work is to know the causes and solution of diseases affecting animals. They can also tell on how the disease can be transferred to human. They identify the effectiveness of new medicines. This is because some human diseases attack animals and vise verse. Therefore, they are responsible for ensuring good health to animals.

It is somehow dangerous to the work they do. One may think that their work involves handling cute and fury animals. Sometimes their work is also risk just like any other since they have to deal with wild animals and some are stubborn animals. Some animals can bite while others can scratch with claws. One should take caution when handling such animals thus ensuring safety.

A veterinarian is also a surgeon. They can perform operations on an animal. The anatomy of most animals is covered in the syllabus. The vets use anesthesia just like in humans when operating. The reasons are also similar as they manage the pain associated with the procedure.




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