If they want to treat chinchillas, ferrets, guinea pigs, parrots, birds, any zoo animal they go for MORE training in exotics, on their own money and time, once they've graduated from the vet colleges. They also keep up with the trade/industry literature and help out the resident zoo vets on a regular basis.
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yagoubidris say: 1- A vet must be keen and ready for keep learning and continuous study.
2- He must have a broad minded to compare and contrast.
3- He must love his job.
4- And others ( for vets only)!!
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Cal King say: To cure an animal, one must diagnose the problem. Diagnosis is not always easy and not always accurate. After diagnosis, the doctor will try to figure a cure.
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busterwasmycat say: They do not, always. But there is a long history of study of animals, by thousands upon thousands of people, scientists, so we tend to know a lot about the more common animals from experience and examination. Certain "exotic" pets are actually fairly well known from such study.
But we cannot even always heal sick humans, so there is, and likely will pretty well always be, illness and injury that cannot be cured, whether in humans or any animal. Some things, like bacterial infections, can be treated in pretty much the same way without regard to which animal is suffering the infection. Just a question of which treatment is best for the infection and the host animal, and that gets learned a bit by trial and error, if there is no information on what would work best as reported by someone already.
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Helen say: Because they spend four years studying for a degree in veterinary medicine.
Even then, there's not one vet who knows everything.
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Gert say: They research them.
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