We should probably start with some similarities…

1. Our patients are not really great at communication. We need to learn to read them in other ways. While some human children eventually learn language, they don’t always use it effectively – try getting straight answers from a teenager.
2. They don’t always understand that we are trying to help them get well or stay well. See above communication issues.
3. We are at risk of getting bitten (kicked, hit, vomited peed and pooped on). 
4. Medications are weight based depending on the size of the animal (or feral child as the case may be).
5. We do a lot of immunizations. We encourage vaccines and for certain animals they are even mandatory (rabies). Humans have more freedom to put their non-fur babies at risk for vaccine preventable diseases.

Differences…

1. Vets get paid and the owners are mostly happy to do it.