{"id":8676,"date":"2024-06-28T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T09:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=8676"},"modified":"2024-06-28T09:27:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T09:27:14","slug":"for-an-aquatic-veterinarian-its-never-just-a-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=8676","title":{"rendered":"For An Aquatic Veterinarian, It\u2019s Never \u2018Just A Fish\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This article is part of our Pets special section<\/a> on scientists\u2019 growing interest in our animal companions.<\/p>\n

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Many students begin veterinary school with career aspirations that date back to childhood, when they fell in love with the idea of ministering to cats and dogs, or horses, or the exotic animals at the zoo. Jessie Sanders arrived at veterinary school with a more particular passion. \u201cI was the one weird fish kid,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

It was an interest that had surprised even her. In college, Dr. Sanders had started volunteering at an aquarium, hoping to work with the whales. Instead, she found herself assigned to the fish team \u2014 and falling hard for her finned charges.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just love fish,\u201d she said. \u201cI love the way they\u2019re built. I love the way they interact with the environment. And there\u2019s still so much that we just don\u2019t know about all the little internal workings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today, Dr. Sanders runs Aquatic Veterinary Services<\/a>, with patients that include carnival goldfish, pet store bettas and prizewinning koi worth tens of thousands of dollars. Last year, she became one of the first 10 veterinarians to receive a board certification in fish practice, a wholly new accreditation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dr. Sanders spoke with The New York Times about life as a fish veterinarian. Her story was based on two conversations, and her responses were edited and condensed.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve done nothing but pet fish for 10 years, and it\u2019s been awesome and challenging. I like the challenge of setting everything in an underwater environment. And the amount of personalities that you get in fish \u2014 they have so many little quirks. Some of them are super chill and nice, and some of them are complete terrors.<\/p>\n

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This article is part of our Pets special section on scientists\u2019 growing interest in our animal companions.Many students begin veterinary school with career aspirations that date back to childhood, when they fell in love with the idea of ministering to cats and dogs, or horses, or the exotic animals at the zoo. Jessie Sanders arrived at veterinary school with a more particular passion. \u201cI was the one weird fish kid,\u201d she said.It was an interest that had surprised even her. In college, Dr. Sanders had started volunteering at an aquarium, hoping to work with the whales. Instead, she found herself assigned to the fish team \u2014 and falling hard for her finned charges.\u201cI just love fish,\u201d she said. \u201cI love the way they\u2019re built. I love the way they interact with the environment. And there\u2019s still so much that we just don\u2019t know about all the little internal workings.\u201dToday, Dr. Sanders runs Aquatic Veterinary Services, with patients that include carnival goldfish, pet store bettas and prizewinning koi worth tens of thousands of dollars. Last year, she became one of the first 10 veterinarians to receive a board certification in fish practice, a wholly new accreditation.Dr. Sanders spoke with The New York Times about life as a fish veterinarian. Her story was based on two conversations, and her responses were edited and condensed.I\u2019ve done nothing but pet fish for 10 years, and it\u2019s been awesome and challenging. I like the challenge of setting everything in an underwater environment. And the amount of personalities that you get in fish \u2014 they have so many little quirks. Some of them are super chill and nice, and some of them are complete terrors.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8678,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8679,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8676\/revisions\/8679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}