The night was stormy, but Jim Shearer still had a cow he needed to help give birth.
He finally managed to catch the cow and tie her to a tree, but she wandered out into a shallow pond.
Shearer waded in after the cow only to discover that the calf was too big for a natural birth. So Shearer performed a cesarean section to deliver the calf in the pond.
Later that night a tornado blew through the pasture, taking out the chicken house and the tree beside the pond.
This is the kind of devotion to his practice that Shearer showed throughout this career, starting when he graduated from veterinary school at Oklahoma State University in 1969.