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THURSDAY S MAY 2DDS
NEWS PAGE
THE CANADIAN RECORD
Veterinarian's jack of all trades
hits the trail after eleven years
Eleven years after she became veterinarian Pat
Crouch's jack of all trades, Carolyn Price decided to hang
it up and go play in her yard last week. Price said it was
hard to leave her job after more than a decade of doing
the Canadian Veterinary Clinic chores and serving as
Crouch's surgical assistant, receptionist, drug purchaser,
accountant, personal secretary and general all-purpose
diplomat.
It was harder still to stay gone apparently—as Caro-
lyn learned just two days after representatives for several
animal health companies threw her and fellow retiree Tri-
cia Hand (a 10-year veteran at the clinic) a Friday after-
noon bash to mark their departure. Carolyn got the week-
end off to celebrate her new retirement, but was back on
the job Monday morning, when her successor, Lori Steen,
was sidelined by a cat bite.
But Crouch is still bracing himself for her eventual de-
parture. "She has been wonderful help," he said. "She put
up with me, with the clients, with the animals. The clients
will miss her more than me if I left."
According to Crouch, Price always came to work at
least an hour and a half early. According to Price, she nev-
er really knew what her hours were, "except it sure wasn't
40."
"I was a monthly employee," she said, laughing. "I
think that's where I messed up."
"She did everything except surgery," Crouch said.
"Carolyn was jack of all trades, and
master of most of them. Tricia went
with me on calls. She and Tricia were
the whole ball of wax."
Although Crouch said the staff
likes all of the animals they see ("un-
less they try to eat us"), Carolyn had
a special affinity for cats—something
a bunch of cowboys learned one day when they brought
in an old tomcat that had been n a fight. "It had cat bite
abscesses," Crouch said, "and was in pretty bad shape.
Those cowboys just shrugged and said, 'Hell, it's just a
damn cat.'"
Carolyn said nothing, Crouch remembers, until about
three weeks later when the cowboys brought in a horse
that had gotten all cut up. Carolyn took one look at the in-
jured animal and, shrugging, told the cowboys, "Well, it's
just a damn horse."
Pat says he always could tell if he was in trouble. "I'd
come n the clinic door, and Carolyn would be standing
there with her hands on both hips," he says. "I knew I was
in trouble. And I knew I probably deserved it."
Assuming Carolyn ever does really get to retire,
Crouch says she will be greatly missed. "We'll try to be
tenacious about it," he said. "I don't know how we'll get by,
but I guess we will."
"The girls," Carolyn and Trish, had a few parting
Andy Conrad, Ryon Moudy, Dale Butcher, and Mike Vance pose with Trish and
Carolyn at their going-away party Friday.
words for their employer, suppliers and customers, and
asked The Record to share them:
"Thank you to our friends that came by the clinic Fri-
day to say goodbye. We will miss you all so much. Please
know that each and every one of you have a special place
in our hearts. When our 'drug dealers' asked us to invite
a few close friends to Friday's going away party, the list
went on and on.
"All good things come to an end, and we've had a good
long run. Special thanks to four of the men in our lives who
have jumped through hoops to see that we 'got our drugs.'
You guys did a wonderful job planning and preparing the
meal.
"Last but not least, thank you Pat for all that you have
done for us, and all of the things that you have taught us as
well...one of those being, "Don't sweat the small stuff...and
you know what? It's all small stuff."
"And always remember, because we sure will, that
'only the shadow knows.' We love ya, man, but you still
can't have our beer!"
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Brown, Laurie Ezzell. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 118, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 8, 2008, newspaper, May 8, 2008; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth252703/m1/8/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.