The Plural of Sheep is Sheep
Veterinary Adventures on a Rescue Farm - with Russ and Natalie
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Friday Jun 14, 2024
Friday Jun 14, 2024
Welcome to the debut podcast of "The Plural of Sheep is Sheep," wherein Dr. Russ Campbell and Natalie Rowe introduce themselves (and Natalie shifts her microphone and sounds like she is talking into a toilet paper roll for most of the show.) Russ is a large-animal veterinarian who lovingly cares for the critters at Bee Meadow Farm, located near Apple Hill, Ontario. He grew up with cows in PEI but now lives in Glengarry county, where Natalie is hell-bent on turning him into a horse vet (cuz cow vets are a dime a dozen!) Russ has a gift for giving voice to the animals here, especially our cat Missy (who apparently is an 75-year-old Scotch-imbibing chain-smoking old biddy with a taste for horse.) Natalie, the owner of Bee Meadow Farm, loves to write and is a graphic artist with a music degree who spends copious amounts of time dealing with the bodily emissions of animals. The occasional f-bomb may be dropped, abscesses will be drained, and blind sheep may mow us down in the pasture, but we are all about education, love of animals, and fun. Especially fun! Follow us and you'll learn about the ins and outs of life on a farm full of rescue animals, with an emphasis on the veterinarian's perspective. And there will be guests! Lots and lots of guests!
It's not just sheep...
Bee Meadow Farm is an 86-acre rural haven for rescue animals in eastern Ontario, Canada, run by Natalie Rowe. These critters are cared for by Dr. Russ Campbell and his fellow staff at Vankleek Hill Veterinary Services. After years of bantering while dodging purulent discharge, Russ and Nat decided it was time to start a podcast about the veterinary happenings at Bee Meadow. There's always something to laugh at, cry about, or learn about here at the farm!
Almost 200 animals live at this farm including 12 pot-bellied pigs, 12 goats, ten sheep, two ponies, two miniature horses, five rabbits, two cows, three retired draft horses, five regular-sized horses, two donkeys, 32 cats, five dogs, many ducks, turkeys, chickens, geese, guinea fowl, and a peacock named Alfie! Many of the animals have special needs. Some of them are just plain SPECIAL.
You never know what you'll find us doing here: a goat mastectomy in the garage, a horse-leg debridement on a Friday night, a clean-up and Brazilian on a sheep with hind-end paresis... anything can happen here, and we want to tell you all about it, from the perspective of a large-animal vet and a woman with too many cats.
Thank you for listening to our podcast!
You can learn more about the farm here:
www.beemeadowfarm.com