But when he went to meet them, he discovered that his knowledge of pets and their ailments allowed him to meet them on their level, and which made her family view him in a new light.īut even after he was married, he continued to be called out to late-night emergencies and other calls, like three terriers who had to be brought in three times by their owner with their snouts and faces full of porcupine quills. This one was less farm animals and more pets, but it was here that he met the woman who eventually became his wife- someone whose family he would never, in a million years dream of meeting or hanging out with.
Ann, he had his first day on the job, a punishing experience that included a horse who he couldn't tell if it was pregnant or not, a dog spay operation that required a transfusion from the Office dog after the original patient started bleeding catastrophically, and an aborted birth from a cow that required a Ceasarian after hours of trying to get the calf out by pulling it.Īfter that point, his days involved Puppies with either Diarrhea or constipation, including one young Puppy named Sam who ate too many grasshoppers and who became utterly blocked by their indigestible legs, a horse with an abcess in its frog, and the most vicious animals he'd ever encountered- not a dog or a wildcat, but some domestic Turkeys who not only pecked him and drew blood, but also attacked the daughter of the farmer who owned them- which quickly got them turned into Turkey dinners!Īs soon as his year apprenticeship was over, he left South Dakota for Colorado, and yet another practice. After a month of on the job training under Dr. But he spent much more time with Jenny, his technician. Wells shares some background on his life growing up and going through college, and then when he first became a practicing vet in South Dakota, under a woman named Ann. And being the child of a farm family, he knew that he was better suited to the life of a vet than someone who'd never had to geld cattle, or seen them give birth.Īnd while it makes him proud that kids want to be vets when they grow up, he also knows it involves a great deal of hard work- work at three in the morning, when you are tired, cold and wishing you were anywhere but up to your elbow in a cow, something that kids have no conception of at the age when they typically want to be a vet. Child of a farming family, Jeff Wells loved animals and knew what he wanted to be when he got older.
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