Alana, Morgan and I went to interview Dr.Miner at his work place, Brighton Animal Hospital. We loved to see all of the animals and learned a lot. That was my first time ever going into an animal hospital. These are the questions we asked him and a summary of the answers.
STARS (me far right) at Brighton Animal Hospital
US: Have you done anything you consider gross?
Dr. Miner: Um sure it doesn’t really bother me because I’m used to it but I would say that there’s a task that we have that isn’t the most present. Once in a while we have animals that come in that are loaded with maggots and it eroding the flesh and they smell like rotten flesh and you know that that’s pretty bad. One time we had a dog come in and its eye was completely gone and it was just had all maggots inside it. That was really tough to see.
Cool fact: Euthanasia means putting an animal to sleep.
US: How many animal abuse cases do you get?
Dr. Miner: Not too many. If we are suspicious of something we’ll call the S.P.C.A. and they will look into it.
Cool fact: Animal abuse cases are hard to prove
US: What kind of schooling do you have to go through to be a veterinarian technician?
Dr. Miner: Two years but most colleges are changing to four years of colleges.
Cool fact: They lightly sedate the animals.
This is Dr. Miner talking to us in the operating room.
We had a great time at the vet. We learned so much. Knowing all this information just made me want to be a veterinarian even more. We also learned that they have about 265 appointments per week. And 71% were dogs, 29% cats and 1% other. They only have 3 veterinarians and 3 veterinarian technicians working at that small hospital.
