{"id":72810,"date":"2009-12-09T10:24:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T15:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/askthevet.smartpak.com\/?p=676"},"modified":"2009-12-09T10:24:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T15:24:23","slug":"gift-ideas-for-veterinary-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/72810","title":{"rendered":"Gift Ideas for Veterinary Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I am wondering what would be the perfect gift to get my cousin who is in her second to last year in Vet School. She hasn&#8217;t decided small or large animal yet, but last I heard she was leaning towards large. Seeing as you are a Vet, what would you have liked to receive as a present when you were in Vet School? Thanks JR, Massachusetts<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dear JR,<\/p>\n<p>What a fun question! I spoke with my husband about this, since he\u2019s also a veterinarian, and here\u2019s the list we came up with together:<\/p>\n<p>1. Money\u2014I know this is not what you wanted to hear, but most vet students are coming out of school with more than $100,000 in debt and spend their entire careers working just to pay this off. Maybe a Visa gift card?<\/p>\n<p>2. Food\u2014We ate a lot of Ramen noodles in vet school, so your cousin would probably appreciate a gift card to the local grocery store. Better yet, purchase or make a gift basket full of goodies such as cheese, chocolate, crackers, chocolate, pasta, chocolate . . . you get my drift.<\/p>\n<p>3. Gas\u2014Another boring suggestion, but next year she\u2019ll be involved in externships at other schools or private practices and will need to get around.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, now for some more specific suggestions:<\/p>\n<p>4. Books\u2014veterinary textbooks are expensive, so I\u2019m sure she would appreciate help purchasing reference materials that she can use now and once she graduates. I love my collection of Veterinary Clinics of North America published by Elsevier. They come in equine, small animal, exotic and food animal. A one-year subscription (you get three small hardback books) is $111 if she lets you use her student discount. Otherwise is $222<\/p>\n<p>5. Clothing\u2014Who says you can\u2019t be fashionable while attending vet school? <a href=\"http:\/\/askthevet.smartpak.com\/equine\/misc-topics\/gift-ideas-for-veterinary-students\/www.veterinaryapparel.com\">www.veterinaryapparel.com <\/a>has the latest in scrubs, jackets and even footwear for the most discerning doctor-to-be.<\/p>\n<p>6. Pet gifts\u2014Finally, every vet student I know has a menagerie of dogs, cats, pocket pets (or in my case, horses). Why not ease the financial burden of caring for these creatures by giving her a gift certificate to her favorite pet store? Might I suggest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartpak.com\/\">SmartPak<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Have fun with these ideas and Happy Holidays!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am wondering what would be the perfect gift to get my cousin who is in her second to last year in Vet School. She hasn&#8217;t decided small or large animal yet, but last I heard she was leaning towards large. Seeing as you are a Vet, what would you have liked to receive as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}