There were two quite distinct camps at vet school. The large animal crew, and the smallies mob. The large animal ones (I used to be one, back in the day) tended to favour redwing boots, wrangler jeans, and large felt hats. The smallies crowd were altogether better dressed (and, dare I say, better behaved as […]
\”She\’s very old, and she just doesn\’t seem to be going so well…\” I could see that. She was simply skin and bones, and her whole body had locked up with arthritis- she could hardly move her head, as she watched me with calm and knowing, wise old eyes. Her mum unfolded the story of
I first worked as a vet in practice in Western Australia, around the area of Bunbury. It was sandy, sandy, sandy country. My dog at the time (Tally, a crazy and wonderful staffy) excavated huge holes in the sand of our back yard. And the horses all around the district ate a considerable amount of
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
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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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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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