Vets are also needed in the food processing industries where their job function is concerned with ensuring that conditions are both humane and hygienic. Vets therefore examine animals, diagnose illness or injury and as indicated, prescribe medicines, administer sedatives and anaesthetics, or perform surgical and obstetric services. They advise owners, destroy unwanted or sick animals, and carry out immunisations against common viral and bacterial diseases and conduct post-mortem examinations. They also dress wounds and set broken bones and carry out tests for diseases. In addition, veterinarians need some business sense, as they are also involved in various administrative tasks such as maintaining records on sick animals and restocking medicine and supplies as required.
Veterinarians often work in dirty and smelly environment.
Dealing with livestock for calving and operation or internal examination can be messy business. Any squeamishness must be overcome with sympathy, combined with detachment and endless patience, as the love for animals, the special attribute of these doctors, should be a compensators factor. General breakdown of employment translates, one-third of all veterinarians treat small animals. Another one-third treat larger animals. Almost ten percent specialise in the health and breeding of cattle, poultry, sheep, pigs or horses.