willshak wrote:

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"I got me a horse and took it for a ride. It stepped in a gopher hole
and broke his leg. I called the vet and asked him what to do. He said he
couldn't do anything for it and I would have to shoot it. I didn't know
how that would help, but the vet knows better, ...



Vet jokes always remind me first of my brother who is one and second of
the story Baxter Black tells the following story of how he got out of
being a vet to a fulltime cowboy entertainer...

I was set up in a large animal practice out ther in E Co ranch country
and just not gettin' anywhere in that dry and dusty place w/ only about
three ranches in the whole county could drive to in a day. So, called
the Vet School to get some help in determing the problem. Well, first
thing this city fella' did was ask me how I was charging clients. So, I
told him what I told them--"That'll be 50 bucks but I keep the hide."

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