Day 4

Well, today was another busy day and tomorrow will be the same!  Today we started off with a lecture on how to interpret urine sediment.  Urine sediment is what is obtained when urine is spun real fast so that any solids in the urine sink to the bottom.  We then look at these solids to see what is there.  This was followed by a two hour lecture on veterinary forensic pathology which is basically the pathology of animal abuse cases.  After lunch a few of us presented a case of ours that was interesting.  I was a presenter and presented the case of my cow from Monday.  Today on the necropsy floor we had a cow, three calves, two piglets, a cat, and a wolf.  On the schedule for tomorrow already was a cow, a calf, a cat, and a dog with another cow potentially coming in as well.  I asked today if this was normal but they told me no, this week has been really busy.