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Ologies with Alie Ward

Smologies #5: VETERINARY BIOLOGY with Vernard Hodges & Terrence Ferguson

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.923.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

At long last: an episode dedicated to veterinary medicine! Dr. Terrence Ferguson & Dr. Vernard Hodges have been friends for nearly 30 years and have co-owned their rural Georgia veterinary clinic, Critter Fixers, for over 20 years. The two wonderful buddies talk about getting accepted into vet school, caring for spiders & camels & lizards & toads & kittens & doggos, the weirdest things they’ve extracted from animal tummies, if our pets love us back, keeping kidneys healthy, grain-free diets, what to do if your (Alie’s) dog is plumping up by a few pounds, what they wish animal owners knew, when it’s time to let go vs. keep treating a pet, the daily rollercoaster of emotions that come with vet med -- and their charming, informative new show “Critter Fixers: Country Vets” on NatGeo Wild.

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0:00.0

Oh, hey, it's that ladybug that just landed on your arm.

0:02.6

It's a hello, but wait too quiet for you to hear.

0:05.3

Alliward.

0:06.3

Back with episode number five of small G's, what is small G's?

0:10.4

So glad you asked.

0:11.4

So we took full episodes of Oligies, and then we sliced and diced them up to make these

0:15.4

bite-sized, also bonus classroom-friendly edits of our deep dive Oligies classics.

0:21.7

So if you haven't listened to the original full-length episode of veterinary biology, and

0:25.2

you don't mind the occasional salacious detail, maybe a little bit of swearing, go back

0:29.8

and listen to that, the link in the show notes.

0:32.0

But if you only have 20 minutes, or you need a G-rated version that is suitable for all ages,

0:36.4

you're in the right place.

0:37.4

Okay, so in this episode, we sit down with not one, but two veterinarians who also happen

0:42.1

to be best friends for over 30 years.

0:45.3

That's right, it's a two for one.

0:46.9

So Dr. Hodges is one of the vets.

0:48.9

He has kind of an edgy, hip asymmetrical haircut, almost like a half mohawk, and when we sat

0:54.0

down in record, he was wearing a dark button-up shirt and a blue sport coat, and Dr. Ferguson

0:58.8

has a lower voice and is wearing a t-shirt with the red critter fixer logo underneath,

1:04.4

and a plaid blazer, and his head is neatly shaped to a perfect shine.

1:09.2

And they both grew up in Georgia.

1:10.5

They got their bachelor's degrees from Fort Valley State University and their doctorates

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