What does it take to become an all animal veterinarian? What are the best most reasonably priced colleges for this specific career field in Missouri?

There is only one vet school in Missouri, at the University of Missouri. There are only about 30 vet schools in all of North America, so not every state has even one vet school. It’s not completely clear what you mean by an all animal veterinarian. If you made a veterinarian who sees only animal patients, and not humans, that’s the only kind there is! If you mean a vet who can work on any species, any veterinarian graduating from a standard north American veterinary school is not restricted in the range of species. However, “all species” encompasses a great many different species. Your vet school training will prepare you to begin work in the common companion animal and food animal species. If you want to be able to work on exotic animals, wildlife, birds, reptiles, or insects, you might need to seek additional training, for example a residency. Also, there are many veterinary specialties, such as surgery, behavior, and specializing in certain species such as horses. There is not time in four years of at school to learn everything you need to know about treating every kind of situation in every species. In fact, I don’t think there is time for that in a normal life time, though I encourage you to try! For practical reasons, most veterinarians end up practicing in a limited range of species, or a limited range of specialties, such as surgery, sports medicine, or equine medicine. If you are in private practice in seeing people‘s pets, zoos are not going to bring their animals to you. If you were working at a zoo as an exotic animal veterinarian, you will be at the zoo, and people won’t be bringing their pets to you. You’re four years in vet school will expose you to many different types of medicine and at least a little bit about many different types of animals. You will have the opportunity to take classes with poultry, companion birds, large animals, small animals, and probably have the opportunity to do internships in wildlife medicine and exotic animal medicine. After that, it’s up to you to decide what you want to do in your career.

The university of Missouri does have a vet school. You want to make sure the school you choose will provide you the best education to learn ALL species at the lowest cost ie in state vs out of state. Do not go to a school like UC Davis if you want to learn all species.Research each school for your specific needs.