Is it possible to become a veterinarian without EVER having to do dissection, animal experiments, etc.?
Yes, there are digital methods where you don’t have to deal with the cadavers, but it is a far cry from actually cutting the bodies. It’s basically the beginning of surgery, and any competent veterinarian has enough skill to do minor surgeries. Going into your first surgery knowing nothing about the amount of hand pressure you need to apply, or how the skin really reacts to cutting, or what it feels like while cutting leads to very poor initial surgeries. I’ll ask around and update this answer after I ask to where my school gets its cadavers, but really, dead animals happen all the time. I imagine my school gets them from shelter euth, but I’ll have to check. As a veterinarian, you will come across all sorts of people who may do things just as bad to their pets and think its fine. Learn to deal with it or you may make an emotional veterinarian. It is very possible to be a vegetarian in college. My school had menu items that vegetarians can eat, as well as a salad bar.
Although there are many digital disections available, there are practical things to learn in a dissection also. Vets do need to do surgery. They do need to do necropsies, (autopsies). You do need to know all about the internal organs of the animals you intend to care for. Vets also have to do presentations to the public while in college regarding their choice of field. Go with the digital dissections for now, talk to local vets, go to a vet college open house. I think what you have heard about suppliers of dissection materials is not all true. It is important to practice surgery on nonliving subjects first. It is possible to be a vegetarian in college. Do some nutrition study of the necessary amino acid matching that is needed in a good vegetarian diet.
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