Today was the annual open house at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine. This is a hands-on experience, and our budding wildlife rehabilitator, Amanda, insisted on seeing every exhibit. She performed an endoscopy on one stuffed animal, intubated a rubber dog, and extracted a foreign object (Kit Kat bar) from a Teddy Bear using laparoscopic surgery tools. She did a postmortem exam on a green lizard, and studied real heartworm larvae under a stereoscope. What a day!

When we stopped at the rehabilitation clinic, we met Roscoe, an incredibly well-behaved and justifiably exhausted sheepdog who had been demonstrating physical therapy techniques for much of the day.