I need the bones, but I'm afraid this guy is gonna give me flesh :o( Not sure I can use it if he does, because I don't have a pot big enough to boil the flesh off. Also, gross.
Nope, I need the astralgus, which is part of the hock. Ungulate legs are weird!
Yes! omg, I had to research just to figure out where the ankle was. Because of course I think of the ankle as the fetlock. Which, it's alright to call it the ankle, because of how it looks and where it is, but I was looking at the talus of another animal and thinking, "Okay, but where is that?" and had no idea ungulate feet were arranged so differently. It's pretty cool, though.
My uncle is a horse vet! I think it's super cool, but I read too much James Harriot when I was young, with the arm-up-to-the-elbow-in-you-know-what. Have you ever watched the tv series? I just saw part of it for the first time a couple years ago. It's so cute!
Is that the one with the fifth Doctor in it? (If so, small amounts as a child.)
Our friend's now-late father, a large animal vet by training, had this HORRIBLE Lladro-style statue of a vet, not with the arm up to the elbow, but with the GINORMOUS SYRINGE UP THE COW'S HOOHAW. It was the most alarmingly creepy and twee representation of artificial animal insemination ever. And, it is telling, that seeing it for the first time made me regret not choosing that path.
And the fetlock, right? Not the pastern?
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Nope, I need the astralgus, which is part of the hock. Ungulate legs are weird!
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They are weird.
(Until I was 13/14, I wanted to be a large animal vet.)
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My uncle is a horse vet! I think it's super cool, but I read too much James Harriot when I was young, with the arm-up-to-the-elbow-in-you-know-what. Have you ever watched the tv series? I just saw part of it for the first time a couple years ago. It's so cute!
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Our friend's now-late father, a large animal vet by training, had this HORRIBLE Lladro-style statue of a vet, not with the arm up to the elbow, but with the GINORMOUS SYRINGE UP THE COW'S HOOHAW. It was the most alarmingly creepy and twee representation of artificial animal insemination ever. And, it is telling, that seeing it for the first time made me regret not choosing that path.
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omg. That's amazing.
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I love it. And it summed up John to me in a nutshell.
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