welcome you to the No Bad Dogs podcast, Dr. Mike. What we do here is we have a podcast of a bunch of different dog owners, dog trainers, people all over the world that are like me hungry for new information and trying to learn more about their dogs.

And we started this podcast on dog training and behavior.

And now it's kind of evolved to me just selfishly going around and trying to get as many other professionals on the podcast to answer questions.

Talk, talk, talk, dog.

And we've had so many different aspects of life so we're excited to have you on

why don't you just explain explain to the guests or explain to the people explain to me

what you do where you're at and and how you're working with dogs right now yeah um so my name's

kelly mite i'm a veterinary surgeon. I'm in Austin, Texas.

I think one thing that a lot of pet owners maybe don't understand is just a difference

between a veterinarian and a veterinary specialist, kind of like in human world where you

can go to medical school, you get out and do general practice, or if you

want to specialize in something like internal medicine, surgery, oncology, whatever it may be,

you can go ahead and do that. And so for vets, as soon as we get out of school, we can do a rotating

internship, which is a year of intensive training, typically in a large hospital setting.

It may be a private practice.

It may be a university setting.

And then if you want to specialize in, say, surgery or internal medicine,

maybe you do a specialty internship.

And then from there, you can go on and do a surgical or internal medicine residency, whatever it is. And so that's three years. So after vet school, I did five years of training to go specifically into surgery. And so I finished that in 2013 at Washington State University. My wife and I are from Austin. So we moved back home and I started a mobile surgery business with another surgeon who had been here a little bit longer. He had started this mobile company, I think, in November of 2012. And I moved down in the summer of 2013 and started. So people think of mobile and think like going into homes and doing surgery there, maybe out of the back of a van or something.

We basically would take our equipment into general practices and do specialty surgeries there in their general practice.

And so I primarily got into orthopedics during that time.

So I wouldn't say mobile pigeon holds you, but it sort of does.

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