I don’t understand why the family didn’t bring her in sooner. to 10 p.m.That dog dying on the operating table had me bawling. 25, preceded by another vet show (“The Incredible Dr.
ET Saturdays, Nat Geo Wild, rerunning at 1 a.m. On days like that, the country-vet life doesn’t sound all that enviable. “We’re in a blizzard warning, with minus-17 (temperatures) and seven inches of snow,” Erin said. The Schroeders were nestled into an upscale hotel. (The high school, with only 148 students in six grades, was playing a school two divisions larger.) Neither did the weather. Their son, who’s 6-foot-5 (“so far,” Ben adds) had a basketball game, starting as a sophomore. On this particular day, the Schroeders sort of wished they were back home. They are really, truly heroes in their community.” These people offer “real, heartfelt stories …. “Nat Geo Wild has built a lot of our success from shows featuring vets,” said Janet Van Vissering, the network’s senior vice-president. Soon, producers were contacting them some wanted a renovation show, but the vet side prevailed. That’s the Texas couple that has turned renovation into a TV, magazine and book business. “It said, ‘These guys are the next Chip and Joanna (Gaines).’” Their life changed, Ben said, with a newspaper article about them. In their spare time – yes, they have spare time - they’ve restored an old store and a 103-year-old hotel. She grew up near Lake Placid, NY, but has thrown herself into Hartington, a town of 1,500. “She is the most comforting person you’ve ever met,” he said. Ben may be particularly good at large animals, Erin at human contacts. They always head out together, they said. “I was going out on calls with my dad when I was 2 or 3 years old.” That’s the life he’s always known, as the oldest of five country kids. “We serve South Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska, (putting) 50,000 miles a year” on a pick-up truck.įar from the structure of 15-minute appointments, they sometimes find themselves getting out of bed at 2 a.m., for a farm emergency. Which is where, exactly? It’s “not near anything,” she said.
They were moving to the vet practice his dad started in Hartington, Neb. It was a glimpse of a vet world that’s “a lot more structured, (with) 15 to 20-minute appointments.”
“Waiting for Erin to graduate, I got a job” in a nearby animal hospital, he said. Then came marriage and minor adjustments.įirst for Ben, who was already in his third year of vet school. “I had noticed the cute red-hat guy,” she said.īen, addicted to University of Nebraska University caps when he’s not wearing a Stetson, soon approached. Then it was on to the Kansas State veterinary program, where she quickly spotted Ben. They both played high school basketball and she went on to play at Syracuse, where she was stymied by knee surgeries. He’s either 6-foot-4 (his version) or 6-5 (hers) she’s 6-3. “Heartland Docs, DVM,” Saturdays on Nat Geo Wild, isn’t one of those opposites-attract shows The Schroeders have the same occupation (veterinarians), hobby (renovating old buildings) and size. Two weeks later, they were engaged … six months later, they were married … and a couple decades after that, they have their own reality show. “As soon as I saw Erin, I said, ‘That’s who I’m going to marry,’” Ben Schroeder said. – This was an ideal match, vertically and vocationally.
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