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No one of us specifically worked on the feminization of the veterinary profession. However, in our research on food safety in slaughterhouses (Laure) and on antimicrobial use in livestock (Nicolas), we met female veterinarians who talked with us, yet sometime briefly, about their careers. To illustrate our former note, we have decided to present short extracts of these interviews in which those women speak about their personal and professional trajectories.The interview below is the last of our series. The women who is telling us her story here is the youngest of our sample. She graduated in 2002 and chose to work in a practice specialized in pig medicine. She explains why she was attracted by the pig sector and describes the kind of veterinary work she was looking for.I graduated in 2002, and I always did pigs, even during my internships. So from the beginning I was attracted by this kind of medicine, because of a “practical” interest so to say. Anyway, if you want to work in the pig sector you have to like it… you have to like the farmers, the technicians, the vets, everyone. So I did internships, especially at INRA (French national institute for agricultural research), and I even passed my DVM thesis at INRA, it was on the issues of boars semen quality. After that, I worked for five years in the west of [French] Brittany, I was employed by a producers’ organization. Then in 2007 it was the moment when SELAS have been created [a new legal form of veterinary practices that have been developed in France after the interdiction for vets to be directly employed by producer’s organizations or cooperatives] ((This decree passed in 2007 in order to regulate the veterinary drug market and prevent producers’ organizations and cooperatives from directly selling curative treatments such as antibiotics. Nonetheless they are allowed to sell preventive treatments such as vaccines (veterinary prescriptions remain of course required) as the French legislation on veterinary pharmaceuticals states since 1975)). So I seized this opportunity to come in the north of Britany and I started to work half-time for an animal feed company, and half-time as an independent vet in a SELAS for my drug dispensation activity. And then, since 2011, I am full-time employed by this SELAS which work in partnership with a pig producers’ organization. So that’s it. (…)What I like in pigs is that I work 100% on farms. That’s really important to me. Because when you do cattle, most of the time you have to do dogs and cats as well, you have to work in a mixed practice. And what I like is to work with professionals who produce the animals we eat. So who have an economic interest about their animals. Pig farmers (well, not all of them but most of them) have very good technical skills. Pig farming is a very dynamic sector, you never get bored! We often have to upgrade the farms to news standards so it’s always evolving. Research moves also very fast, the pharmaceutical industry innovates a lot so it’s interesting. It’s true that sometimes it is a bit complicated to explain that, especially to the public who doesn’t know anything about the pig sector. But I had the chance to know it a little bit before my studies at the veterinary school as my grand-parents were farmers in Britany. (…) My parents weren’t farmers but my grand-parents were. And I spent many summers at the farm so I had no prejudices on pigs or poultry or cows. So this is why for my first internship when I was a student I chose a mixed farm. Dairy cows were interesting for milking but the rest of the time you don’t work that much with the animals… as everything is done by the inseminators. But with pigs it’s very interesting. You have to take care about birth, weaning, artificial insemination… those are quite technical gestures and procedures. So this is how it started and I thought it could be interesting to work in this sector. The year after, I did a new internship in a pig cooperative and my project was on farm disinfection. I even did some biological analysis by myself and I was very interested in it. And to be honest, what interests me the most is this kind of follow-up, not being a “fire brigade” vet. But I can’t talk very precisely about the “classical” rural vet as I never was one of them. But what I do think about this kind of practice is that it is a lot of emergency and “fire brigade” work and I don’t think this is very challenging.This interview is the last of our series on the trajectories of female veterinarians. Don’t hesitate to comment the different notes of this series or contact us if you would like to contribute to this topic.laure.bonnaud(a)inra.frnicolas.fortane(a)inra.fr&#160;[cite]&#160;