{"id":3184,"date":"2010-03-30T23:41:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T16:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=3184"},"modified":"2010-03-30T23:41:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T16:41:34","slug":"shortage-of-vets-for-big-animals-changes-the-landscape-for-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/shortage-of-vets-for-big-animals-changes-the-landscape-for-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortage of vets for big animals changes the landscape for care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By GENE ZALESKI, T&#038;D Staff Writer  Monday, March 29, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Bamberg Veterinary Clinic Dr. James Mitchell says the day of the large animal veterinarian could be numbered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA vet can\u2019t make a living only seeing cows who go down on occasion or have to pull a calf,\u201d Mitchell said. \u201cIt is hard to get somebody to go out to see a cow. Unfortunately, often times that means the cow dies if they can\u2019t handle it themselves. That does take a toll on this area and cattle production. I have had to turn people away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell is one of a handful of large animal vets in The T&#038;D Region, but he is no longer taking any new clients.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetandd.com\/articles\/2010\/03\/29\/news\/doc4bb0d57a585b0815008213.txt\"> Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By GENE ZALESKI, T&#038;D Staff Writer Monday, March 29, 2010 Bamberg Veterinary Clinic Dr. James Mitchell says the day of the large animal veterinarian could be numbered. \u201cA vet can\u2019t make a living only seeing cows who go down on occasion or have to pull a calf,\u201d Mitchell said. \u201cIt is hard to get somebody [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,31,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry","category-veterinary-medicine","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3185,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184\/revisions\/3185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}