Does Animal Planet Pay For Dr. Jeff Show

Some other day, another veterinarian reality TV show. I don't know why Brute Planet loves Denver then much, but their latest reality offer, "Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mount Vet," premieres on Saturday, and a agglomeration of u.s.a. are already cringing at how this one is going to play out.

Dr. Jeff is a veterinarian in the Denver area who runs a low-cost spay/neuter practice. I haven't seen it however, so I can't write it off without giving information technology a run a risk, but the fact that he was called for being a self-described "controversial pariah" doesn't bode well. As far equally I can gather, he'southward so far managed to offend the following groups:

breeders
oncologists
owners who dress upwardly their animals and refer to them as family unit
veterinarians who effort and make a livable wage

Although I'g trying to keep an open mind, the Dr. Jeff prove is brought to the states by the same media company who brings us "Hippo Hunters," too as "Fatty Girls and Feeders," so I admit I don't have the highest of hopes.

It's not what he does that worries me; it'south what he says, which is of grade why they bandage him, I'm sure. I'm all for spay/neuter, all for veterinarians who cull to dedicate their careers to doing low cost services, but I'thou as well all for veterinarians who choose to dedicate their lives to providing cut edge medicine to those who desire it. Information technology's not an either/or thing.

Rather than telephone call veterinarians who are trying to improve the quality of intendance for veterinary patients money-hungry, I prefer to give thanks them for moving usa by the days where we immobilized reptiles for surgery by sticking them in the freezer and considered pets writhing in pain mail service-surgery as "squeamish and awake." While I hold that non every pet and client can or should pursue costly high-tech procedures for every disquiet, the options are there, and that is not a bad thing.

Information technology's the aforementioned stuff that pops upward with shows like Dr. Politician. Controversy drives ratings, and every time a person protests nearly a questionable action on photographic camera, tons more than fans come out of the woodwork to defend him. The more people are fighting, the more people are paying attending, and that drives more people to the testify, then I anticipate this new show will exist just as migraine-inducing.

Controversy and fist-waving does zip, yet, to drive amicable conversations about the thorny issues that won't be resolved without a little more than finesse: access to care, finances, the balance betwixt resources, and expensive medical care. A measured discussion with no yelling about those issues, while helpful, would be much less entertaining, and so it won't be on TV.

I judge what I'g getting at here is merely a reminder, on the dawn of this new show, to please await at it less like a documentary and more like what it really is: a highly produced slice of entertainment.

While this new star may exist very fun to spotter, by the nature of the beast he's probably also going to be simply off his rocker enough to get people worked upward, for better or for worse. At the end of the twenty-four hour period it will likely bear equally much resemblance to existent-life veterinary medicine as "Survivor" does to summer military camp.