This was a really easy book to read and it was a lot of fun. Not only were the stories about Bruce’s patients humorous and sometimes heartbreaking, the descriptions of the upper-middle and upper classes in 70’s London were fun and often outrageous. I had no idea that Harrods used to sell exotic animals!
The really interesting thing about this book was reading about how the veterinary industry has changed its opinions about and treatment of our pets over the last 50 years - it’s hard to believe that it was a struggle to convince people that dogs and cats could feel pain and would benefit from pain management alongside surgeries/recovery. Also, reading about how Bruce got more and more curious about animal behaviour was great.
Although it does describe treatments and surgeries, they are written about in an accessible way - not lots of technical terms and cold sentences.
Bruce writes with a natural flow that made me not realise how quickly I was reading, and before I knew it I was finished!
The really interesting thing about this book was reading about how the veterinary industry has changed its opinions about and treatment of our pets over the last 50 years - it’s hard to believe that it was a struggle to convince people that dogs and cats could feel pain and would benefit from pain management alongside surgeries/recovery. Also, reading about how Bruce got more and more curious about animal behaviour was great.
Although it does describe treatments and surgeries, they are written about in an accessible way - not lots of technical terms and cold sentences.
Bruce writes with a natural flow that made me not realise how quickly I was reading, and before I knew it I was finished!