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London was an interesting place to work in – I did quite a few temporary locums there. I would pack up my backpack, hoof it down to the local train in Newcastle Upon Tyne, and wait. The train would hiss to a halt; I\’d scramble to get my pack on, grab my guitar case, and […]

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,

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.

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

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,

It was my first long term locum in England, and I had been working there for a couple of months. I had heard a few of the other vets mention \”The Hedgehog Lady\” in tones that left no doubt that she was one of those clients that you\’d rather not see. I\’d never seen a

Here is a link to the poster for the workshop… workshop flyer A4

What have our pets evolved to eat and be healthy? Dogs are carnivores. They have evolved to eat meat, and bones. Meat and bones, fresh and raw, should make up 75-80% of your dogs diet. The domestic dog is not a wolf, and has been evolving as a village dump scavenger with humans for a long,

The Healing Vet is so close to being on the road in the Northern Rivers. I can nearly taste it! It has been a long haul- 4 months since we moved, unpacking, and also doing all the things I needed to do to get the business ready to launch. Writing advertising material. Sorting out a