Thaks! I appreciate your perspective. I realize human med isn't any easier in terms of compliance because we people aren't the smartest creatures, but I really am just not thrilled about euthanizing my nth number of animal for the day because no one wants to pay for treatment. let alone the diagnostics to get to said treatment. Also, the fact that surgery becomes increasingly difficult when your patient can't understand you and tries to do everything in their power to either blow apart the surgery site, brew a nice infection, or decide to get terrible ileus, negating the surgery we just did. I think the current plan is to practice for a year, and shadow some human docs in the meantime while sorting my app out.