
I don’t know that my kids were cute with diarrhea, but these piglets sure were. What were some of your memories of shooting that episode and do you think that’s a nice diverse collection of animals to open with?Įrin: They still were cute with diarrhea. In the first episode you treat a cow, a chicken, and some piglets… We’re hoping that we provide everybody with just a basic understanding of how things work out here. We certainly hope that we really can kind of educate. We work with a lot of family farms and their perspectives were changed in the matter of the first week off filming.

This isn’t how we thought it was done.” There’s so much more compassion, there’s so much more substance to the people and to the care that they take of their animals. After the first week, they just said, “This is really not at all what we thought raising animals was about. But you know, even our production crew, when they came out and started filming for the show, just couldn’t believe some things. It’s stunning in that part of the country. Erin is actually a born and raised New Yorker.Įrin: Upstate New York. I think this show is going to bridge that gap.

So we’re kind of nervous about people elsewhere, away from the Heartland, not knowing really what we do. We have people that we do work for with a dairy farm or a beef farm that are afraid when the film crew comes that bad things are going to be put out there about them – that they aren’t doing justice to their animals. What are some of the misconceptions you encounter about being a veterinarian and working in Nebraska?īen: I think there are misconceptions each way. DEN OF GEEK: I would imagine you guys are in both a profession and a part of the country that there are a lot of misconceptions about.
