Sometimes they're booked, um, sometimes they're short-staffed, and so even though they're close, it doesn't mean that they can get any and all animals in for a CT at any moment.

I think it's definitely something to, to keep in mind or it's something that thinking about what's best for, for the animal and it's always a really difficult decision to figure out what's best for the animal or best for yourself and trying not to make a selfish decision, trying to prolong the animal's life if they're in pain or suffering and trying to alleviate some of those things rather than doing what's maybe best for the animal and treating symptomatically and enjoying the time you have-- that they have left.

Do you ever face-- is there ever a whole lot of debate over this gold standard thing, or is this more of a small animal issue?

It's a l- I guess certainly more of a, a small animal issue that I do run into some cases where, where clients may have really valuable animals or they're more of a, a pet rather than a, well, kind of what we were talking about earlier with most livestock are part of a, a farm and a, a business where those animals have a more s- a, a certain value, and if, if a treatment or procedure is going to exceed their value or ability to return on investment of that treatment sale.

Um, and so, no, I, I really don't run into, to that question very often.

Every once in a while I run into or have some clients with super valuable animals that are, that will do e-everything that, that they can to, to keep that animal in, in production or to keep them more comfortable.

But no, it's, it's pretty rare and, and uncommon that I, that I run across some of these, these issues that are, that are more common in, in the small animal world.