Jan Pol > Quotes

“How could anybody not find a woman who played tag with her pet duck attractive?”
― Jan Pol, Never Turn Your Back on an Angus Cow: My Life as a Country Vet

“When you’re starting out you don’t like to ask for help; you want to prove you’re capable of doing everything yourself. You actually have to be pretty secure to admit that you need some help. Dr.”
― Jan Pol, Never Turn Your Back on an Angus Cow: My Life as a Country Vet

“I’ve never known an animal to hurt another animal for absolutely no reason. Animals might be protecting themselves or their family, they might be hungry, or they might be territorial, but just to hurt another living thing? No, that doesn’t happen in nature. So I don’t think it’s correct for someone to refer to an awful person as an “animal.”
― Jan Pol, Never Turn Your Back on an Angus Cow: My Life as a Country Vet

“I have learned a lot of lessons doing my job that might be valuable to other people. For example, there are times in life that you're just going to have to stand in a hole filled with manure to get the job done, and when that happens you do it and then you just wash it off and take satisfaction that you did a good job.”
― Jan Pol, Never Turn Your Back on an Angus Cow: My Life As a Country Vet