Yes they are! I loved animals and wanted to be a vet in the worst way, so I braved helping old Doc Butler with the horses. It was so gross when those things came shooting out the horses’ noses and sometimes all over me and they’d stick to my shirt. Ugh. I hated that. And I felt so sorry for the horses, too, but glad we were getting those things out of them. I was more than willing to put up with it to help the horses and learn from Doc Butler.
So it sounds like you didn’t become a vet in the end...?
We watched Doctor Pol quite often. I had to stop because I felt so sorry for the poor animals and their owners.