A veterinarian and a lawyer walk into a bar...

...or into our house, or the grocery store, or our kids' room, and usually not much happens. I am a vet and my husband, a lawyer. I don't practice clinical medicine; I teach and I do research on wild birds. Dead wild birds mostly. So I am at a bit of a remove from day to day pet practice. But having a vet and a lawyer in our household does mean that we …