quill-of-thoth: drferox: awsogmm: drferox: the-ol-homosexual: Can we talk about how in zombie...

quill-of-thoth:

drferox:

awsogmm:

drferox:

the-ol-homosexual:

Can we talk about how in zombie shows/movies/books they always find a veterinarian and not a surgeon? Are veterinarians deemed more likely to survive the apocalypse?

Yup.

• One of our professional skills is ‘not being bitten by patients’
• We actually have a good broad knowledge base for both surgical, medical, and GP things
• We’re used to improvising equipment because a lot of stuff is just not made for animals
• Meat safety is part of our training
• Our cars are often full of equipment, especially in mixed practice
  
• We probably weren’t in the human hospital at the initial outbreak
  

I like how the confidence of this answer implies that we as vets have at some point sat down and discussed why and how we would survive the apocalypse 

You mean you haven’t?

Look, my neighbor is a vet.

He has given himself stitches multiple times. (99% of the time this is from a poorly socialized cat, because claws.) He once informed us that he couldn’t guarantee stitches would hold in our dog’s ear (he’d run past some barbed wire) and instructed us over the phone how to securely bandage him using rubbing alcohol, sterile cotton swabs, and six feet of rag.

Vets would not only survive the apocalypse, they’d be the reason the rest of us survived too.

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