Pet Forum / Miscellaneous / Animal Health / April 2005

HI!
I went to Ridgetown so I'm a bit bias there ;o)  I LOVED it.  You have to
realize that you do to small and large animals (horses, pigs, dairy and beef
cows) though.  It's still easy even if you don't have any large animal
experience.  I was accepted to them all as well and I thought that I'd be
going to Seneca because that's the only tech school that I ever heard
anything about.  But when I went there and it was in the middle of no mans
land...I didn't like that.  And the fact that you'd have common classes with
the other programs so it'd be University like setting with like thousand
students in one room with one teacher to go around.  At Ridgetown there are
only 40 students per class.  If you need help, you get it...and fast!  It's
located in a very small, cute, quite town.  I lived on campus my first year
and off the next.  I lived on the other end of town and it still only took
30 mins to walk to the school!  I have a friend that went to Seneca and I
don't trust her skills.  We were talking on the phone one night and I said
how confusing urinalysis (looking at urine) can be.  Her reply was "Yeah, I
hate looking at poop".  I was like what?  Don't you know what urinalysis
means?  And from what she's told me, you work on a lot of other animals
(i.e. donkey, Canada Geese, not normal animals that you'll encounter in a
vet clinic).  If you went to St. Laurence you'd be a Veterinary Technologist
(assuming that you applied for the 3 year course - the one year course you'd
be a Veterinary Assistant (i.e. glorified kennel cleaner - nothing against
them!!))  There is where they focus to get you working in the labs.  It all
depends on what/where you want to work.  If you have any other questions,
feel free to email me!