1 My name is Marina Cesar. I work as a ________animal veterinarian. I've been a veterinarian for 16 years. We're here today to do their vaccines, we'll do an examination, will check their _____we'll check their hair coat see if they've gotten any, you know, skin problems that they've gotten over the winter and just make sure they're ready to start working and doing something, competing or riding.

2 To be a large animal veterinarian you have to be- number one: understand the __________of the animals to be able to read them to be comfortable around them because some of the procedures some of the things that we do can be very invasive.

3 The other big thing about being a large animal veterinarian is you're working usually in a _______situation so your environment is different always and you have to be able to improvise and make each farm _______to what you're looking to get done that day at the farm.

4 Whenever I do a procedure I always explain to the client what I'm doing what complications might occur if from the procedure, example, vaccinations... I'll often tell people that I'm doing this ________on the left side, this vaccine on the right side so that when they call me and tell me that on the right side the horse is ____________ we know that the rabies vaccine was given on that side so we can maybe eliminate that vaccine change the vaccine you know just so that we give the animal better care the next time and that doesn't occur.

5 Whenever I approach mostly horses I give up my hand so they can smell it and then I'll often touch them in the shoulder. A lot of animals seem to be calmed by ______them and by _______them especially in the chest area. You know, it's a calming effect, or it might just be a distraction but it seems to work.

6 You have to be patient foremost with working as a veterinarian, and you just have to be very understanding of what else is _______ in their life as opposed to what you're seeing right there because we all have a lot of things going on in our life, and now they have this emergency depending if it's an emergency, or this problem sitting in front of them _____they may have some trouble feeling at ease with it and that I think is a veterinarian's job to explain educate and just make the person feel better about what's going on because it's a problem and, you know, problems can be when you don't know about it can be __________so the first thing I always do is explain to the person this is the problem; this is how we can fix it; this is the solution that we can look at and most likely this is what's going to happen.

7 We're at this farm because this horse had a problem with what we call tying up or a muscle pain that presented a couple of weeks prior and we did __________ at that time and realize the horse had very high elevated muscle enzymes which indicated some muscle damage and… so here we are two weeks later and we're just rechecking those levels of blood muscle enzymes to see if they're back to normal and then the horse can go back into work.

8 The weight and this horse was overweight for my observations in an _________horse just like an overweight person or any overweight animal makes them much more prone to a lot of disease processes. In horses specifically they get a condition called ________which is inflammation in their feet that can be quite devastating very painful.

9 Owners tend to have a difficult time appreciating whether an animal is overweight or not. There's certain things that we look for on their body to indicate whether they're _______and so pointing those things out to owners and explaining it to them so that they can then feed them properly is the goal.

10 We're here today to UM castrate a mini ______that's about two three years old and we're gonna do that procedure under general anesthesia. We look for a place that's going to be safe horses can jump up quickly they're flight-or-fight animals and they can _______a lot coming out of general anesthesia so we want an area that's pretty open no obstacles to get into.

11 Once in a ______I have a another associate that's a large animal veterinarian also helped me today it's Karen Keselowski and she'll probably be watching more than general anesthesia.

12 first injection that we give is a _______it just gives the horse a little relaxation we watch that by looking at the horse's head position his head should come down very low his lower lip should be very relaxed once that's achieved we then go to another general anesthetic that we give them IV these are _________ and, once that's in, within a minute the horse will then fall to the ground and be under general anesthesia.

13 Working as a large animal veterinarian is very enjoyable very satisfying every day is different and I love that about the job I love __________ I love working with people; it's a tough job. I'm not going to deny that and I will say that it all balances itself out and um it makes it all worthwhile.