Any vets around? I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to them!

[neweurope]

Here it happened again... 8 p.m., pitch dark, freezing temperatures, a stable without running water or electricity and a sick horse.

This veterinarian (but it could have been damn near any other, they're all great or at least most of them) - looks like a boy, feminine even, nobody you'd want to send outdoors under those conditions - this vet doesn't blink, doesn't hesitate, shoves his bare underarm (and I KNOW he was freezing because I was and my arms were NOT bare) into the mouth of a terrified, 600 (maybe 700) pound creature which could HURT you... Mine lamp on forehead, he rasps his teeth which is not a nice job under the best of conditions. Gets some warm water to wash his hands afterwards SOLELY because we lug warm water to the horses when it's freezing, he just lucked out. Soap I didn't have any and I even forgot about my stack of towels! :blush: He never misses a stride, traipses back through the dark to his car to get his own towel, comes back to give instructions AND converses nicely for another ten minutes. In the dark, everybody freezing.

KUDOS, is that what you say? My deepest respect. They are worth any cent they earn, and Lord knows it's expensive to have them around. A big hooray to vets!

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