It's love and care for pets that keeps Jennifer Lotz in the veterinary industry year after year.

"I've been in veterinary medicine for 30 years, and I've been here for 13 now," said Lotz, practice manager for Hickory Veterinary Hospital in Forest Hill, Maryland. Advertisement

It's getting harder and harder to staff veterinary practices, though, according to Lotz.

"There's a shortage of veterinarians and there are only 30 veterinary schools in the entire United States that are accredited, so it's hard to get another crop of young vets coming through," Lotz said.

It's especially hard to staff private practices like Hickory, Lotz said.

"We've also had a lot of challenges over the past couple of years with corporations buying out a lot of the new private practices," Lotz said. "When ther

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