“We’ve Had the Best Time Living Here”: Rural Veterinarians and TV Stars Grateful for Having Chosen the Good Life in Nebraska

Working in a rural vet clinic is its own animal!” Ben Schroeder exclaimed, taking a short break between helping a horse named Ginger and caring for an injured calf.

As he spoke, a multi-parameter monitor beeped in the background where Ben’s wife, Erin, performed dental surgery on a dog wrapped in a Huskers blanket.

“You might be delivering a litter of kittens or puppies in the morning, and then you’re doing a C-section on a cow two hours later, and then you’re back to the clinic to finish up with small animal appointments,” Ben related. “And that night you might get a call to go sew up a horse laceration. Literally anything that calls in, you get to handle it. I love that!”

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