The essentials of essential oils

Posted September 12, 2019

I can’t believe how many interesting cases I’m being exposed to every day during my externship and! I’m learning a lot every day, and each case and patient I see allows me to learn more about what condition or symptoms they presented to the clinic with. One case in particular that I wanted to explore and learn more about was a potential essential oil ingestion toxicity in a four-month-old (and also very cute...

Pyometras explained

Posted August 16, 2019

Aside from the frequent spays and neuters I’ve seen at the clinic, another common surgery I’ve seen performed has been a pyometra surgery. There usually aren’t this many pyometras presented to the clinic, but there has coincidently been an increased number of them while I’ve been on my externship!

Pyometra is a common illness in adult intact (non-spayed) female dogs and cats, where the...

The pawsibilities of wound management

Posted August 1, 2019

My first few weeks of my externship at Aylmer Veterinary Clinic have been off to a great start! I’ve been getting lots of hands-on opportunities doing spays and neuters, practicing blood draws, putting in intravenous catheters, and performing physical exams. It was very overwhelming to start appointments and get the hang of things at first, but I’ve settled well into the routine of things. Some days are quite challenging, whereas others I feel like I know what I’m doing, which I’m starting to learn is all part of the job! It is totally normal to feel this way as a veterinary student while I’m trying to apply things we’ve learned in classes to...

The Last Step

Posted July 8, 2019

Hello everyone! My name is Malika Ladak and I am going into my clinical (and final!) year at the Ontario Veterinary College (OVC). I’m originally from Thornhill, Ontario, and completed my undergraduate degree in Zoology at the University of Guelph. Unlike a lot of other veterinary students who knew they wanted to be a veterinarian from a young age, I decided I wanted to pursue veterinary medicine later on in high school.

Growing up, I really enjoyed learning about animals and biodiversity, going on...