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Personal Essay On Becoming A Veterinarian

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As a child, I used to love all animals no matter what everyone else used to think about them. I had every kind of animal book you could imagine from reptiles, to amphibians, and even dinosaurs. I loved learning about their habitat and their diet because it they are so much different than ours but they are living just the same as us. There wouldn’t be a day that went by where I wouldn’t be thinking about animals which made me think about becoming a veterinarian until I became aware of the fact that I had to put them down sometimes. With my love of animals, there was also time where my friends and I had fun like jumping on our neighbors trampoline. One day, my friend and I walked over to our neighbors house and rang the doorbell to ask if we could use the trampoline. While waiting for the door to open, I saw what I thought was a wooden …show more content…

I also knew that where there is a mother, there are babies. This certain snake that I decided to pull on must have been the mother because once it got to the porch, I looked at the grass around the house and it was almost as though each strand of grass was moving. Snakes came from everywhere. The rocks, the grass, and even under the porch seemed like they were the homes to snakes. As they slithered about it appeared as though they were coming right at us and we became deathly afraid because we didn’t know what they were going to do to us. As soon as we thought all hope was lost, the dad came home and immediately came to our rescue with none other than a shovel. Unfortunately he killed each and every one of them because he didn’t want them to harm us and the sight is something I will never forget. In order to clean up the mess of mangled snakes, he grabbed a five gallon bucket and began to scoop snake upon snake upon snake into the bucket. At the end of the cleanup, the bucket was about halfway full of

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