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[lilranch2001]

How many wildlife or race horse vet jobs are there in the US or the world for that matter?

Most vet schools have a hard time getting students to take on mixed practice or large animal specialties. Why? Livestock, horses excluded, are usually put down when the cost starts to add up. Not so with pets and horses. Small animal is what most go into

You have no idea what you're talking about. It's like someone saying "most tractor owners are white supremacists".

Well sit we’ll have to just agree to disagree there

 

[CalG]

Perhaps there is too much emphasis on the money potential
as result of "higher education".

I see a lot of unhappy "educated" people.
There are times I am one....
and life has been very generous to me and my family.

 

[jyoutz]

Exact-tly

Government intervention is not a "value added" proposition.

If we didn’t have state colleges and universities, most people couldn’t afford to attend college at all. Private schools are outrageously expensive.

 

[lilranch2001]

Yawwwnnnnn

 

[Hay Dude]

How many wildlife or race horse vet jobs are there in the US or the world for that matter?

Most vet schools have a hard time getting students to take on mixed practice or large animal specialties. Why? Livestock, horses excluded, are usually put down when the cost starts to add up. Not so with pets and horses. Small animal is what most go into

Yeah, well maybe that’s the way it is in N. Idaho (beautiful place), but in MY area, there‘s horses everywhere. Lots of race horses, too.
There was also the King Ranch. 14,000 acres of cattle grazing, to they had and continue to have lots of “patients”.
So we have a lot of demand for Veterinarians.

 

[Hay Dude]

HAHA. 500k? Come on. I worked at a university and dealt with prevet students, vet students and grad students who were already vets. The only people making big money were: old vets who had a long established practice or had bought up a string of clinics, some who specialized (just like MDs) or, those who went to work for pharma companies.

Oh absolutely. Our vet was the richest man in our town that had an everyday job.
There were wealthier people who inherited millions, but our best vet was probably worth 10 million + and that was in the 80’s.
What you fail to understand is vets get paid in cash a lot, so they can play games with declaring income and taxes.

 

[jyoutz]

Yeah, well maybe that’s the way it is in N. Idaho (beautiful place), but in MY area, there‘s horses everywhere. Lots of race horses, too.
There was also the King Ranch. 14,000 acres of cattle grazing, to they had and continue to have lots of “patients”.
So we have a lot of demand for Veterinarians.

Large animal veterinarians are in high demand because most vets specialize in small animals. Unfortunately, they typically cater to a poorer clientele than the small animal vets. Race horses are an exception. We have lots of very large ranches ranging up to 500,000 acres, but most of those outfits do their own cowboy veterinarian work and only use veterinarians for very rare and serious cases like roping horses or other high value animals.

 

[Hay Dude]

Large animal veterinarians are in high demand because most vets specialize in small animals. Unfortunately, they typically cater to a poorer clientele than the small animal vets. Race horses are an exception. We have lots of very large ranches ranging up to 500,000 acres, but most of those outfits do their own cowboy veterinarian work and only use veterinarians for very rare and serious cases like roping horses or other high value animals.

Like I said to butchgrass, it depends on where you live.
I live in an equine rich area. We have 2 billionaires in my area. They love their horses. I don’t say that to brag, I say that to help you understand that vets in MY area can be extremely wealthy.

 

[jyoutz]

Like I said to butchgrass, it depends on where you live.
I live in an equine rich area. We have 2 billionaires in my area. They love their horses. I don’t say that to brag, I say that to help you understand that vets in MY area can be extremely wealthy.

No doubt that is true. And we have areas where race horses are raised where those vets do very well. But a lot of large animal vets work out of their trucks and are a dying breed (but still in high demand). Pet horses and 4H animals just don’t pay like those pampered foo foo dogs. We need more large animal vets.

 

[Hay Dude]

New Bolton sends a students to help with our vets on ours.