Animal Tales

I will never forget my first encounter with the RSPCA, which occurred a great many years ago when I was a very young vet and had just set up in practice. That night I happened to be out with a friend of mine and we were in a pub not many miles from West...
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We have been concerned over the last week or so because of noises from within the house in the early hours and finding various doors within the house open when I knew I had closed them last thing at night. The first time it happened I was so concerned I mobilised our local armed...
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What I personally found most poignant was the graves of the much loved dogs which were pets and mascots of the British pilots who fought in the first world war, they seem to have been buried with full military honours. The poignancy lies in the fact that the odds are that the young carefree...
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    This is not something I had never heard of in the UK but yes they do exist, mainly in the USA I hear. Animal chaplains work on an interdenominational basis and a very obvious role would be counseling people on the loss or euthanasia of their pet, I have done my fair...
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    This story concerns a young vet in his clinic around Christmas time many years ago, and is really a type of pipe dream. Not one word of this is true gentle readers, oh dear me no, of course not! It is normally quiet with us vets in the few days around Christmas...
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This practice has led to a number of urban myths the principal one being that the ladies' fitting rooms in a certain shopping mall are supposedly equipped with trap doors in the floor, which swallow up women shoppers without warning. These trap doors lead to the basement of the mall, where there lurks a...
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Now and again things happen at the clinic which are out of the ordinary and make that particular day stand out in my memory, if this involves a bit of technology then so much the better in my case, this is an account of such a day.