I rolled up to the front door just as the first heavy drops of rain splatted on the windscreen. I\’d been watching the heavy grey clouds as I drove, with bright bolts of lightning flashing down to the earth now and then, and thunder was rolling all around the valleys as I ran up the […]
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\”He\’s been limping on one hind leg, you know,\” she told me. \”It\’s been going on for a couple of days – he won\’t use the steps, and I even found a wee out on the verandah here this morning- he\’s normally such a clean dog, so it must be hurting him. Of course his
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\”He\’s got a terribly upset tummy again,\” she told me. \”He\’s breaking wind in the most alarming and toxic fashion, and running outside every 30 minutes or so to do small, runny poos. Otherwise he seems ok though.\” He was jumping all over me, a boxer with a waggly stump of a tail, wiggling in
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\”Hello?\” a careful voice, tentative… \”Are you the vet who comes to our home?\” \”I am!\” I said. \”How can I help you?\” \”We\’d love to have you come around and give us a second opinion, about our kitten… Would that be possible?\” \”Of course I can,\” I told her, with a smile – and
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The blood kept welling up, and my heart rate was climbing with it. My fingers felt numb, awkward, fumbling around ineffectively. I was in the middle of a spey, a big dog, fat, not an easy one… About 5 minutes before, the ligature I had placed on the stump from the right ovary had slipped
\”Are you the vet?\” – Her voice was panicked, words blurring one into the next, I could hear her breath fast and ragged through the phone – \”Me dogs collapsed, and he\’s foamin\’ at the mouth, he\’s paddlin his legs like crazy, and I think he\’s gunna die!!!\” \”OK,\” I said. \”The first thing you
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I pulled up to a very impressive house, down by the riverside, in Townsville. There was a mud covered four wheel drive ute in the driveway, showing signs of extensive and expensive modifications. I called out… \”Hello?\” No one answered at first, and then, just as I was turning to go back to the van
Benny was one of my greatest teachers with the Whole Energy Body Balancing technique. A grand old Greyhound, who won a stack of cash in his day on the track. I remember when I first met him – he was aloof, grumpy, didn\’t like being touched. He had a LOT of pain in his body,
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I put a hand out to say hello, and the big, blocky, black and white staffy hardly even glanced at me. His head was down, and he was totally disengaged, a real contrast from the usual happy go lucky, jump all over you and lick you half to death behaviour that I\’d expect from staffies.
\”I\’m so glad you could come,\” she said, as she held open the door for me to come in. \”My poor dog has just had a second cruciate repair operation, after the first one went wrong, but I told you that on the phone yesterday, didn\’t I?\” \”Yes, you did,\” I answered. \”You said you
