Veterinarian going bananas

1) Don’t eat raw meat.

You might not get the job you’ve been dreaming about 

Your friends might move interstate or overseas which makes keeping in contact with your support network difficult

You may have to move interstate or overseas and away from your family and friends

Your friends might all get jobs before you

Being rejected from jobs one after the other (this is a close second tbh)

Setting up in an area where you know nobody and having to sort out: how to travel there, how to rent, how to change your vet registration, how to change your car registration, how to use the public transport, where everything is, how to transport your pets over, how to transport your car and other items over etc

Not being able to sell yourself in an interview or on paper

Getting a job in a different state/country than your partner, or your partner finding a job in a state/country which doesn’t have jobs going for you 

People with less experience but much better people skills getting jobs before you

Like 10% of the jobs going being mixed and only half of those being true mixed practice

Competing against your friends for the same job (this is the worst one honestly)

Clinics just not even bothering to reply to your application

Clinics forgetting about your application

You might not have a true veterinary job for up to the first six months of graduating due to people not wanting you, hardly any jobs going etc

Narnia de la Grâce is a bit of miracle cat that was born this year as part of the Céleste breeding program. It is currently still being tested if he is a chimera or if this is a special colouration. 

It technically shouldn’t be possible to express two different solid non white colours on a male cat (male torties and calicos excluded) and on top of that showing a full colour (black) AND a diluted colour (blue) at the same time. YET HERE WE ARE. WHAT IS HAPPENING?! 

I have been following this little guy for a while now and am just as fascinated and interested as anybody else what genetic wonders he might reveal.

The gene that is responsible for Narnia’s blue eyes is the same gene I have already talked about in my Topaz post and which also may be a reason for his peculiar coat colour, since we’ve seen highly unusual patterns emerge there too. Instead of aiming for a fully new blue eyed breed, the Céleste breeding program however “only” aims to introduce blue eyes into the British breed and is not affiliated to the Topaz program.

Some more Narnia pics for your viewing pleasure:

© Stéphanie Jimenez

During these past couple of months, I had this urge of working extremely hard to actually get better at school–my academics. I studied everyday and I worked hard and put every ounce of effort into all of my work. I never let anything slide. When exams came around, I got nervous, I was unmotivated, I was not ready to acknowledge the fact that I was about to sit these exams. 

When I did, every word I wrote on those pages were not good enough, slowly I felt like everything I worked for in the past couple of month were slipping through my fingertips. I was saddened. Exam after exam I felt myself slowly drifting away, loosing myself to  pieces of paper I prepared my self so hard for. I had nights were I was so sad, and just slept unsoundly. I was sad. Extremely sad. And I knew that when I got my grades back, I wasn’t going to get the grades I wanted–and I didn’t. I got average grades and there I felt myself feel extremely angry and just unmotivated to do anything after pursuing these exams. 

My teachers have hope that I will get better grades and that I could easily bump myself up to higher points. They had faith in me, when I didn’t. How was I supposed to continue studying if I was feeling unmotivated? If I didn’t believe in myself completely? 

These past couple of months hit me like a ton of bricks. People were getting better grades than me, and to be honest it did bother me. Why? Because I want to feel that satisfaction, that relief to receiving those amazing grades. I want to feel acknowledged, I want to feel like I accomplished something. I want to feel like I am ready to take on the world and its challenges without the feeling that I was not able to accomplish any of the challenges. 

I pitied myself. I felt sorry for myself. 

Then came a day, were I woke up and finally realized that feeling sorry for myself, feeling pity for myself, feeling unmotivated, feeling like I am not smart enough, feeling like I am not worth it is not an excuse for me anymore. Those feelings are never going to get me to that top university. The universities are looking for people who can take initiatives, people who are capable of taking control of their own life, people who don’t give up that easily, and finally people who don’t get unmotivated so easily and keep trying their best even when they are at their worst. 

On my birthday, a litter of three sandy cream kittens were born in my bathroom from a stray little kitty named Minerva, who has birthed many kittens in my area, but never been caught and taken care of. But that ends here! She’s had her kittens, she’s getting spayed when safe to do so. And so will they!

However… I need your help. Medical care for anyone is expensive, but for cats, just being examined and getting basic care (shots, deworming, examinations, tested for medicals issues) is EXTREMELY expensive. Not to mention I will be fostering them for 5+ months and paying for their spaying/neutering. Needless to say, I can’t afford this and have 0 resources. I’m currently still paying off my own cats emergency surgery which was 2,300. SO.

Please consider donating to help me take everyone to the vet as needed so they can grow and thrive and find wonderful forever homes. I genuinely cannot afford it without help. If you can’t donate even a dollar, I understand, but ask you consider reblogging this so maybe someone else who can will see it.

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My first goal is $600, that would cover hopefully several visits. For spaying and neutering all of them it’s going to be somewhere around $250 (girls cost more, its a more tricky procedure. Not fair, is it? Boys just get a snip) And anything else raised would go towards covering their food, which if moms eating is an indicator, is a lot of food. (you can also donate food on my amazon wishlist or litter here)

Minnie and Ellie, Dolly, and Freddy can’t thank you but I can. Genuinely, anything helps. We have to protect the animals, to show those who tossed them away, abused them, exploited them, that this is not who the bulk of humanity is. Minnie and her kittens are just a small way I’m trying to correct the injustice done to every stray cat cast aside by humans.

If you are interested in adopting them once they’re spayed/neutered, I live in NC and am looking for loving and responsible people to adopt them and NEVER let them fall into the life their mom did outside.