It was a short locum, a month or so of work. The clinic was in one of the homogenous, grey cities that teem across the landscape outside of the M25 motorway that rings London. I found my way through the tangle of rail, rocked by the clatter-sway of the carriages through endless soot smeared suburbia, […]
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I woke up early this morning, and all the animals and pets who have touched my life paraded through my memory. I grew up on a cattle property in North Queensland, way out in the bush, 60 miles from the nearest town, so I have been surrounded by all sorts of animals all my life.
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It was a quiet moment, a rare and valuable thing in the practice I was locuming in at the time. It was so frantically busy that you seldom got to take more than a hurried gulp of your cup of coffee before some urgent task popped up. I was chatting to one of the other
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It was years ago, well into my time in my first job. I had been to this blokes dairy farm quite a few times, and he was a funny bugger. Not funny ha ha. Just funny – difficult to talk to, hard to find a connection. It was always an uphill battle to have a
It was a quiet tropical day in the vet hospital. Not much to do, so I was chatting to the vet nurse out front, waiting for the phone to ring, something to happen. A car pulled up in the car park, and a lady came in with a small cardboard box. \”I\’ve got a frog
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I\’ve been seeing Anzu, a lovely old standard poodle, for a long time now – nearly a year. I visited him yesterday, and his mum said I could share some of his story. Many months ago, Anzu was just not right. He was flat, not wanting to play any more, and seemed depressed and withdrawn.
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Over the last few months I\’ve been seeing two dogs who were a bit out of control. When I arrived for my first visit, the bigger fellow (a kelpie cross) was totally in my face – he rushed up to me, wanted to jump up, and was also nipping and mouthing at my hands a
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It\’s a strange place to be, when you\’re new in practice as a vet. Brim full of knowledge, overflowing with ideas, and hardly any practical experience to speak of. I was always ducking out of the consult room to delve into textbooks (I still do, now and then!) – always wanting to make sure I
The Cat With Pneumonia I Thought Wouldn\’t Make It… Read More »
The little dog was clearly unwell, struggling to breathe in, flat, unhappy. The owners told me that it had been hit by a car; but from the outside, I couldn\’t find anything wrong at all. Not even a graze to be seen! I could see that the owners were really worried about their little friend,
Vet Stories: It Was a Mystery… Read More »
I lived in Newcastle Upon Tyne for many months, with a friend who had a permanent job in a big vet hospital there. It was cold, cold and cold, and grey, and an icy wind would sneak right through to the marrow of your bones in winter. The people were warm and wonderful, so much
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