\”Butch has been in another fight,\” the slightly sheepish voice one the phone informed me. \”I took him to the beach, because he loves it so much, and I was watching like a hawk for other dogs, then my phone rang and distracted me for a moment. When I looked up, his tail was up, […]
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\”My dog just had puppies a couple of nights ago, and suddenly she\’s behaving very strangely. She won\’t let the puppies drink, and they are hungry, and crying out. It\’s like she wants to let them suckle, but then she just doesn\’t, she jumps back out of the puppy box, and she seems a bit
\”Hello – I\’m wondering if you could help me?\” the voice questioned me over the phone. \”I just got this rescue dog a week or so ago – a kelpie fellow – I have another four dogs, but this one seems really disconnected. He doesn\’t seem to want have anything much to do with me,
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Why did I become a vet, anyway? I remember as a child, the vet would fly in to do the tuberculosis testing of our cattle herd. I must have been only 5 or 6 years old. We would hear the plane in the distance, and all in a scurry run over to the shed to
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Our lives ache today. There is a huge, cat shaped hole in my heart. Mr Patches, emperor of the house, our dear friend and companion for many years, is no more. A friend saw him last Thursday when they dropped in to pick something up. And then we didn\’t see him again for a couple
Another locum job, in the grey and dirty outskirts of London. Ranks and rows of houses in the cold cloudy misery of an english winter. The wind trying to slip through any little cranny in your layers of scarves and coats and dance with your shivering bones. I remember, early one morning, looking out the
A crazy hyperthyroid cat. Read More »
Just today I was heading back to home, when the phone rang. A worried voice was at the other end of the line… \”My little dog is really unwell, we think she has milk fever,\” she said. \”She\’s panting, and all stiff, and shaking, and her heart is racing. She had two puppies about 3
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For the first week at my first job, a mixed practice in Western Australia, the vet whose place I was taking stayed on to give me a bit of support. I had arrived and settled into the vet share house – and naturally, inevitable, but perhaps not sensibly, he took me out on the town
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I wrote a bit a while back about an old fellow in townsville- a confirmed bachelor and passionate breeder of pig dogs. He was one of those special clients, the sort who have you clenching your teeth in frustration, and smiling in admiration. But mostly clenching my teeth with frustration, I\’m afraid. He could talk
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The phone rang… I said to myself \”I just want to go home, really,\” sighed, and picked up. It had been a long day, and I wasn\’t feeling the best, body tired to the bones, aching for a hot bath, home and rest. I put on a cheerful face. Funny how you always feel better
