Published April 15, 2008 02:43 pm - Farm page top 10 column
Just Past the City Limits: What's that, Doc?
By Mark Parker
Farm Talk (Parsons, Kan.)
The Top 10 things you don’t want to hear from your veterinarian:
10. I figure, so what if I graduated at the bottom of my class - I still graduated, right?
9. Before I opened this practice I specialized in gerbils.
8. I can’t quite make out the label on this medicine but if memory serves me ...
7. Maybe he’s just asleep, ya think?
6. OK. The next time a heifer’s coming through you might want to give me a heads-up before I grab the clamps.
5. You wouldn’t happen to have a whole bunch of Pepto-Bismol would you?
4. Sorry about that but he’s a steer now.
3. I don’t have a thing scheduled all day but I need to get back in time for Oprah.
2. What did you call them again? - Herefords?
1. Do you know anybody who tans hides?
Mark Parker writes for Farm Talk in Parsons, Kan.