So you want to be a Veterinarian... Not for the Squeamish
Channel: Jules Bartow
Date: 2012-01-28

Cocoa wouldn't eat her oats and was lethargic. The possibility of fatal gastrointestinal colic was a huge concern. We loaded her into the horse trailer for a drive --a sure way to scare the crap out of a horse, literally. Cocoa didn't want to go alone so Dexter went too. Dexter went to the bathroom. Cocoa didn't.  

Worried about her rolling on the ground to ease the pain and torsioning her gut, we called Dr. Melinda Freckleton, DVM from Haymarket Veterinary Service http://haymarketvet.com, here in Northern Virginia, a suburb of Washington DC. 

Dr. Freckleton earned every penny of the vet bill, first sedating Cocoa, checking out the stomach, and then pumping pepto-bismol directly into Cocoa's stomach through the nose with a hand pump.  This is definitely a "hands on" and "arms in" job. 

Whereas in a human, the doctor can palpitate the stomach from the outside, a horse's muscles are too thick.  You gotta check it out from the inside.

"Ducky" in this video is a dog.  

As a huge fan of the TV show NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Donald Bellisario, please write this into a script so your viewing audience can learn the "joy" of being a Doctor of Veterinarian Medicine.

Character Doctor Donald "Ducky" Mallard, a forensic pathologist and psychologist medical examiner (Coroner) performing this technique when a horse eats the evidence would be a guaranteed  hit episode.

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