Because there is a shortage of large animal vets. Our area had five  20 years ago now down to 1.5 The .5 one who is  74 years old and only goes out  to old hand picked clients.

Rural practices find it difficult to attract and retain veterinarians due to their high student loan debt. COVID-19 made things worse; the pandemic drove demand for veterinarians to work in small animal medicine, further limiting the pool of food animal veterinarians (Salois, 2021).Jun 1, 2023

THE LIVESTOCK VETERINARIAN SHORTAGE

Oh horseshit. I probably know twenty of em. The reason small animal work is more attractive is because you don't have to make farm calls, get to sit in your office, and charge urbanites through the nose to fix poor Foofy.

Maybe so. But I bet she can write her own ticket in South Dakota, or any of the Midwestern and Western states.

Folks outside the city understand what she said. It's the urbanites that throw a hissy.

True.  But still nowhere above Governor, unless she scores a Cabinet gig.

It probably is.  But the fact remains that under current law, it's considered the practice of veterinary medicine, and they need a license to do it.  They should have been focusing on getting the law changed, and not simply thumbing their noses at it.

No, it friggin well is.
And it is non-invasive. The act if artificial insemination is invasive and requires no license I am aware of. This is just looking at a TV to see whether the insemination took. Any moron can look at a TV.

As to the law, the ins and outs of that monkey-knot are legendary. I broke the law several times in my businesses, completely unaware that the law existed. And several times I beat the law, because the law was insufferable. In those cases I was walking a very fine line, because the law was bullshit, and they made me do it... I would have gone broke following the law.

There’s been a major shift in demographics at the border. Here’s what’s behind the change.

 Shortly after dawn, in the desert east of San Diego, a group of migrants huddled around a campfire. They had come together on this desolate stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border from four different continents: Young men from India shared snacks with women from Nicaragua, while a man from Georgia stood next to a family from Brazil.

A volunteer with a local humanitarian group hauled over a beverage cooler filled with papers: legal information printed in 22 different languages. As he handed them out — in Gujarati, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian — he said, “Welcome to the United States.”

This is the new normal of migration to the southern border: What was once mostly a regional phenomenon has become truly global, with the share of migrants coming from the four closest countries dropping and the number from elsewhere around the world increasing.

An NBC News analysis of newly released data from the Department of Homeland Security shows a fundamental shift. Before the pandemic, roughly 9 in 10 migrants crossing the border illegally (that is, between ports of entry) came from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador — the four countries closest to the border. Those countries no longer hold the majority: As of 2023, for the first time since the U.S. has collected such data, half of all migrants who cross the border now come from elsewhere globally.

The greatest numbers have come from countries farther away in the Americas that have never before sent migrants to the border at this scale. In the 2019 fiscal year, for example, the number of Colombians apprehended illegally crossing the border was 400. In fiscal 2023, it exploded to 154,080 — a nearly four-hundred-fold increase.

But they come, too, from countries in Africa, Eastern Europe and every region in Asia. There have been dramatic increases in the number of migrants from the world’s most populous countries: Between fiscal 2019 and 2023, the number of migrants from China and India grew more than elevenfold and fivefold, respectively. And some countries that previously sent negligible numbers of migrants to the U.S. border have seen staggering increases. In fiscal 2019, the total number of people from the northwest African nation of Mauritania apprehended at the border was 20. Four years later, that number was 15,260. For migrants from Turkey, the number went from 60 to 15,430. The list goes on: More than 50 nationalities saw apprehensions multiplied by a hundred or more.

Experts and U.S. government officials attribute this explosive growth in large part to the pandemic, which provoked mass migration around the world, adding serious challenges to an immigration system already beleaguered by a decade of severe backlogs. Another major factor is the massive expansion of transcontinental smuggling networks, itself fueled by widespread digital technology.

These shifting migration flows account for a significant portion of the record-breaking numbers at the border that have dominated this year’s election cycle. They amount to a major reorganization of global migration patterns — and a paradigm shift for U.S. immigration policy and international relations....................

https://www.yahoo.com/news/world-changed-wechat-snakeheads-era-120000641.html