A viewer will not follow a veterinarian through other people's houses until they know whose morning they are in. This reel is under four minutes, and it stays at home. Dr. Clark says she wanted this work by about age five, that she is the fifth veterinarian in the family and the third generation, and that the day starts with rescued barn animals, then two dogs and four cats, then a pond of koi. One fish is 14 and has an ulcer she medicates by hand. A pig named Otis gets called off the plants. Then breakfast with her partner, Mark, and the phone: overnight emergencies first, scheduled clients after.
The practice, as she describes it, is the opposite of a clinic. She goes into the place the animal lives. A client says a dog named Apple was given maybe a week and was brought back, and another describes a house of two dogs, seven cats, a snake, and about two dozen chickens, and more than fifteen years of not hauling all of that to an office. The reel ends where it started: prescriptions, a van to restock, then her own animals and Mark.
A mobile practice, or a show that needs a lead, is buying the person before the medicine. A list of services does not do that.
Dr. Clark did not need a clinic tour. She needed the morning at home. That is what this video is for.
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[00:00.000] I first became interested in veterinary medicine when I was very young, around five years old.
[00:11.880] I'm the fifth veterinarian in my family and the third generation.
[00:16.520] My grandfather was a veterinarian, my uncle and my two great uncles were.
[00:21.180] So I was introduced very, very young and always loved animals and loved medicine and I just
[00:27.560] fell into it very naturally.
[00:30.280] Our day starts very early on the farm.
[00:32.560] We have a little mini farm that we have rescued barn animals,
[00:36.040] animals that have come from cases of cruelty and neglect.
[00:39.360] So we get up early.
[00:40.520] We take care of the barn animals first.
[00:43.240] And then we take care of our indoor crew, which
[00:45.480] consists of two dogs and four cats.
[00:49.120] We also have a pond that's full of koi and other assorted fish.
[00:52.720] So they get fed in the mornings too.
[00:55.000] The little orange fish, she's actually 14 years old.
[00:57.520] Every coin in the pond is 14.
[01:00.120] But she has an ulcer on top of her head,
[01:02.440] so she's been being medicated.
[01:05.560] I'll actually pull her out, give her medication,
[01:07.840] put her back in the pond.
[01:09.680] But her ulcer is healing very well.
[01:11.200] She looks very nice.
[01:13.080] Right on top there.
[01:16.080] Otis, Otis, come here.
[01:18.240] Oh, oh, come here.
[01:19.760] Come here, come here.
[01:20.760] Don't eat my plants, come on.
[01:22.120] Whoops, look what I have.
[01:29.120] Hi, mister.
[01:34.600] I'm not sure he really wants to be rescued, but I'm worried about stepping on him.
[01:41.800] There I am.
[01:45.160] Then we come in and we take care of ourselves, me and my partner Mark.
[01:49.520] We eat breakfast.
[01:50.520] I get into my office very early because a lot of phone calls come in during the morning.
[01:55.840] There's a lot of emergencies that happen overnight and we have to kind of triage a bit.
[02:00.440] First of all we take care of the emergency situation and then after that we take care
[02:04.560] of the scheduled client.
[02:07.280] My practice is very, very different because we come into the environment that the animal
[02:11.560] lives and thrives in.
[02:13.320] Instead of being in a foreign atmosphere I get to see how they act at home, their home
[02:18.480] situation. We get to see a lot of things at home that we normally don't get to
[02:22.840] see in a practice. Apple's my dog who's been ill for a year and Charmin has
[02:28.700] brought her back to life and I can't be more thankful because everyone told me
[02:34.280] that the dog had maybe a week at that. Here at my house we have a little bit of
[02:40.120] a menagerie which makes it really beneficial to have Dr. Clark come out to
[02:44.480] the house for us. We really like that we've been using her for over a decade
[02:48.200] and a half and we have two dogs, seven cats, a snake and about two dozen chickens.
[02:55.720] So it's really nice to have the convenience of her being a mobile vet and able to come
[03:00.860] out and not having to cart everyone to a clinic.
[03:06.200] This is Jonah, my little pest.
[03:08.180] He likes to be on my desk every second he can and which interferes and work a bit but
[03:12.880] he's such a sweetheart.
[03:15.800] He was a rescue when he was 11 months old and he's now six and he's the joy of my life.
[03:22.840] I wouldn't take a million dollars for this little guy.
[03:29.060] When I get back at the end of the day there's a lot of phone calls to make, a lot of prescriptions
[03:33.460] to fill.
[03:34.460] I have to rebuild a van, I have to do ordering of medications and when all that's finally
[03:38.680] done I get to come home and enjoy time with my own animals and my partner Mark.
