I had one lot of clients in Townsville who were.. a bit different. Two older ladies, living together in a tired old queenslander cottage. I\’d often get 3 or 4 phone calls from them before they\’d finally get me around to actually do a visit for their cats. \”Dr Edward? My cat, Roffles, has been […]
Only a couple of weeks ago, I dropped in to see a friend\’s cat. He was limping fairly badly, and had been for a couple of days. I had removed his undercarriage only a few weeks before this visit, as he had started spraying everything with stinky tomcat wee. He is a big black, friendly
A Cat stitchup, again… Read More »
I\’ve been visiting an ex racing Greyhound, Jackson, for 8 months now. I have seen him ten times, for Whole Energy Body Balance sessions. He was a really top racing dog, huge drive, and loved racing with a passion. Then he had a nasty fall, and broke his leg badly. Probably the only reason it
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Her sour face was scrunched up, on the phone, abrupt words spat out – \”Ok then, of course, we will get them done today for you.\” I had walked out into the office to check on some records, and I wondered what was going on. She hung up the phone, and if anything, the lines
I had been working at my first long term locum for several weeks, I was well settled in, and starting to relax a bit among the chaos and rush of an extremely busy vet hospital. In those days I had a yen to be a surgeon, and on this particular day I was out in
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I met a dog with no eyes this week. Just two furry sockets, a bundle of happy joy, running around the yard, barking, playing, happy, coming up to me to say hello. I\’ve seen blind dogs before, but never a dog who had lost both eyes. \”His name is Basher,\” his mum told me. The
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I helped two very deeply loved pets to the other side of life yesterday. I sat with couples; fragile, raw with grief, agonising over whether this was the best thing for their old friend. Tears fell like gentle summer rain. I sedated their old friends, and then gently, with reverence, slowly injected an overdose of
Euthanasia: It\’s hard to know when… Read More »
I had been hard at work in my first job for about 4 months. A lot of the early nerves and tension had faded away, and I was feeling a bit more confident about being able to cope with whatever came in through the door. It was a quieter day, when a lady brought her
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A Saturday morning. I thought this locum was pretty bad, but this day proved to be the icing on the cake. I only had a week to go, and I was counting every minute of every day, hanging out to be getting back home to my friends, and away from this horrible boss, the rows
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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
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