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
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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
While I worked at my first job in Western Australia, I\’d have to do time for a day or two each week in the branch clinic. It was in a small town, somewhat inland. An old wooden building, with a flat out the back, in which the nurse lived. It was a funny, ugly little
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\”Hello? Is that the home visit vet?\” – Her voice was a bit echoey, hard to make out. \”Yes it is – just let me pull over, it\’s a bit hard to hear you on this line…\” \”I\’ll walk outside, we don\’t have very good coverage here,\” and so we paused for a moment in
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I turned up to my first long term locum job, all keen and eager to begin. The first day was madness, bedlam, chaos… And so was the next day, and the next. That’s just how the place was! I would get up, and walk downstairs to work. We would all gather in the tea room, put
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I\’ve been seeing a lovely Bassett Hound for a year or more. She has a few different problems, allergies being the worst when I first met her, though that one is under control now. About 6 months ago her mum rang me up, upset and worried. She had suddenly developed a head tilt, so her
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