Kids are ‘vets’ for a day


By AGENCY

Kaylee Taylor, a fourth grader, uses a stethoscope to listen to the heart of Fable, a miniature horse, with the help of Justin Norris, education co-ordinator at the Helen Woodward Animal Center, in Rancho Santa Fe, California. — TNS

Emily Wasserman, nine, held a stethoscope to the belly of a 30-year-old miniature horse named Fable.

“It sounded kind of like a dragon snoring, ” said Emily, one of 33 children in the veterinarian day camp on a recent Saturday at the Helen Woodward Animal Center in Rancho Santa Fe, California.

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