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I want to be a vet...what should i do?

I am 12 (i am using my moms email) and i want to be an equine/livestock vet when i get older. i am planning on going to purdue to do this. i also want to know how to trim horses and livestock hooves and do large animal massage theropy. what i am asking is..because i am young i dont know what to do. i know i have to get good grades and i am. but i need things to do.. my family is low on money along with alot of other people so i cant really do anything that would cost alot. please give me ideas.
Thanks.
i mean to do right now when i am young to help me learn and get experience. i know what i am going to do when i get older.

Asked By: Lo-Lo - 1/30/2009
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I'm a 19 year old pre-veterinary student interested in equine sports medicine. My best advice is that you should get good grades. Vet schools are harder to get into then medical schools. Once you get to high school, enroll in honors science and math, and get As. Also, make sure you are successful in other things like English and Social Studies.

You should also look into doing some community service. I volunteered at an equine rescue center when I was in high school. You could look for something like that or places at a vet office or animal shelter. Once you are a bit older, you may even be able to find a job working with animals. There are also programs for high school students at vet schools you can look into. I know Tufts and Cornell both have one, and I'm sure that others must.

Get some books out of the library on veterinary medicine, and do some independent research.

Vet schools are looking for experience handling animals, and experience in health and research. But, the best thing you can do is get good grades. The average undergraduate GPA for vet students is a 3.6. So you should aim for at least a 3.7 or 3.8 in high school so you are prepared to do well in college.

I also suggest you explore other things. You may find that you just hate the science classes you need to be a vet. So try a lot of things to be sure.
Answered By: gang$tahtooth - 1/30/2009
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Go to a vet tech school which is a lil less cheaper than goin 2 a university but u can work ur way up
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Answered By: sexiibabii - 1/30/2009
It helps if you go to the dog trust and do dog walking, when ur 16 go and help out at the vets with our getting paid at the weekends and it helps if u hav had a horse and/or experiance i asked my vet and this is what they said
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Answered By: Chels & Lollie Forevah .x.x. - 1/30/2009
You need to get REALLY good grades--like 95 or higher in all of your classes---so at 12- your in grade 6.....so...like A+ in every class in highschool..

Practical experience will also help...if you've ever had a horse or if you do have one...thats good experience--you could contact a local equine (horse) vet and see if you could "job shadow" them for a few days to see what its really like---my sister wanted to be a vet until she found out she really couldnt handle all the blood...you may be the same--you never know until you've actually experienced it!


You will want to start saving now for vet school---it takes approxmimately 10 yrs to graduate and at tuition being about $10,000 a year, you will want a lot of money saved up so you wont be in so much debt at the end...

The best thing you can do is get actual experience, get awesome grades (you will be eligible for scholarships if you get good enough grades which will help pay for schooling), and keep your goal in front of you at all times---Work hard sweetie!

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Answered By: BarrelBabe - 1/30/2009
Just get some life expirience down. being a vet isn't just about the medicine, so get accustomed to animals....even just spending an hour here and there in the pasture or something. You need to learn to be calm and firm, and to be able to handle animals well. These are all things you can work on while your young. If you want to learn about farrier work and other monthly things, find a local barn and find out when the vets and trainers and farriers come, and just sit in.
Answered By: Renate - 1/30/2009
Ironically you and I are on the same career path however I am a few years ahead of you as I am 18.

Until you hit high school you should try volunteering at a vet office or local humane society (check your local laws though, in some areas you have to be 18 to work at shelters and so on).

After getting to high school takes plenty of classes in science including bio, chem I & 2, ecology, wild life management, human anatomy(i know it sounds odd but humans and animals are not that different).

Also try getting involved with your local FFA chapter when you hit high school. They have events that teach you how to judge livestock and horses along with teaching you hippology. You also get the priviledge to compete alongside other ffa groups which teaches you a lot. Becuase of FFA I am the ranked 13th in the region in horse judging.

Also if your school offers ag classes and completers try getting involved. I am an animal science completer so in school i took vet sci. animal care, intro to ag, so on
Answered By: Powhattan - 1/30/2009
You cant get expirience now.
To become a vet u need to study hard. and get pretty much full marks in maths or english in vce

and thats it.
Answered By: Mariah♥Ben - 1/30/2009
If you can join 4H, that would be a good start at your age. anything you can do to get experience in animal related areas is a plus. When you are older, working with a veterinary clinic or shadowing a vet will help you. Anything you can do to add to earning top grades will benefit you.
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Answered By: galloppal - 1/30/2009
I worked for an Equine Vet up at a ranch that I was living and also working on. She would come up and I would help her do Artificial Insemination's, Embryo transfers and so on. I got paid to do it and I have SO much knowledge from it! You are only 12 but if you have A LOT of horse sense a vet would probably take you in to work with them. That's how I got started, someone referred the vet to me and it was on from there. Another thing you could do is help out at a local Veterinary Clinic. I started out by cleaning dog runs, feeding dogs, sterilizing surgical equiptment, laundry.. the list goes on. Basically you would be there to do whatever they need. I worked my way up to being able to do cultures, and develop x-rays and stuff.
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