I was really disappointed with this book but that’s my own fault. Seeing the fun cover I was expecting a book like All Creatures Great And Small which I had loved reading as I was growing up, funny cases and some sad ones but this was definitely not like that.
This book is more like an autobiography about the writer. He is Canadian and got a scholarship to come to England to work in London Zoo and then at Woodrow and Singleton vets practice in Knightsbridge which is where a lot of celebrities would take their pets, added pressure to get everything right but he soon became used to that. His work also involved looking after the animals in Harrods and Harrods being Harrods it wasn’t just your normal pets that he was treating.
There is a lot in the book about the ethical side of a vets job back in the 1970’s, I am pretty glad that my pets see a vet of today and not back then.
I suppose it wouldn’t have been to bad a book if I hadn’t decided on what I thought I was going to read and just gone into it with a blank mind
This book is more like an autobiography about the writer. He is Canadian and got a scholarship to come to England to work in London Zoo and then at Woodrow and Singleton vets practice in Knightsbridge which is where a lot of celebrities would take their pets, added pressure to get everything right but he soon became used to that. His work also involved looking after the animals in Harrods and Harrods being Harrods it wasn’t just your normal pets that he was treating.
There is a lot in the book about the ethical side of a vets job back in the 1970’s, I am pretty glad that my pets see a vet of today and not back then.
I suppose it wouldn’t have been to bad a book if I hadn’t decided on what I thought I was going to read and just gone into it with a blank mind