Dr. Davis graduated from the University of California Davis School of Veterinary Medicine in 1977, though he has not yet fossilized. In his veterinary career he has worked in private practice, academia (University of Tennessee, Iowa State University, Purdue University, and UC Davis), specialty practice, and veterinary aid programs. He is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons and the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. In 1996, Dr. Davis started Remote Area Medical Veterinary Services, which became Rural Area Veterinary Services of the Humane Society of the United States, in which he has run projects in Mexico, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Sri Lanka and 14 states in the USA. Prior to his retirement from UC Davis, he was an associate veterinarian with the International Animal Welfare Training Institute, working directly with students and concentrating on world horse, mule, and donkey health and welfare problems. He and his wife, Cindy, run a 501(c)3 non-profit, Rural Veterinary Experience Teaching and Service (RVETS), that works to improve access to veterinary care in rural communities, and trains veterinary students in the USA, Mexico, and Central America. Fourteen years ago, Dr. Davis and Cindy founded The Donkey Welfare Symposium at UC Davis. Currently, Dr. Davis does his best to keep up with Cindy, and their refuge for miscreant horses, donkeys, mini-mules, and dogs just south of Davis, CA. He is occasionally dragged out to do presentations on donkey health and emergencies at The Donkey Welfare Symposium, and is expecting that sometime in the future he will be culled as a used-up veterinarian. In the meantime, this year he will share some of his experiences in dealing with emergency tendon and bone injuries in donkeys.