Cheryl Stout
Cheryl Stout, DVM, is a residency-trained zoo and wildlife veterinarian who completed her zoological medicine residency with the Wildlife Conservation Society (Bronx Zoo) and shares zoo medicine and conservation content as @safari_and_scrubs.
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Sep 22, 2026
Cheryl StoutGUEST
No. Yeah, I think there's this very large proportion of veterinarians who always knew that they wanted to be a vet.
Cheryl StoutGUEST
And I always knew that I wanted to work with animals, but that kind of seemed less feasible the older I got.
Cheryl StoutGUEST
You know, you find that a lot of animal careers just don't really pay a living wage.
Cheryl StoutGUEST
And so I had no idea what I wanted to do, how I was going to incorporate animals into my life professionally.
Cheryl StoutGUEST
until midway through college when I was living with a girl who was pre-med and I was still kind of flailing a little bit in terms of my direction.
Cheryl StoutGUEST
And she said, you know, why don't you just take the biology for majors and see if you like it? Because it seems like you kind of are medicine oriented.