The Iowa Agricultural College (now Iowa State University) became the first land-grant institution of higher learning in the United States to establish a veterinary school.
The United Kingdom's Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons still exists to this day. It regulates veterinary surgeons and monitors standards.
Claude Bourgelat observed that the cattle plague was killing French herds. So, he gave up a law career and opened a veterinary college in Lyon, France.
Archaeological evidence indicates that veterinary procedures were performed during the Neolithic period, around the time cats became domesticated.
Legend tells us that cats domesticated themselves by abandoning their wild behavior for human companionship.