Should Burns have been a vet?

Of non-domestic animals, nine hares ('maukin'), six foxes ('tod'), four rats ('ratton'), three polecats ('foumart'), two hedgehogs ('hurcheon'), one mole ('moudiewort'), one badger ('brock'), one bat ('bauchie-bird'), nine deer, three mice, one guinea pig, one wildcat, two toads, one lizard, one adder and six unspecified reptiles all collectively feature, with mentions of these 16 species in 51 poems. Farmers often lose their cattle by the moor-ill or moor-evil [a dysentery in sheep or cattle], and murrain or cattle plague [anthrax, foot-and-mouth disease?]; and hundreds of horses die every year by botts [gastrophilus?], grease [epidermal fungal disease below the fetlock], strangles [Streptococcus equi] and inflammation of the intestines [grass sickness?].