Tales from a Young Vet: Mad cows, crazy kittens, and all creatures big and small. Jo Hardy
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      First published by HarperElement 2015

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      © Jo Hardy and Caro Handley 2015

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      Source ISBN: 9780008142483

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      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Chapter One: Critical Care and the Night Shift

       Chapter Two: Black Monday

       Chapter Three: The Vaccine Trick and Dermaholiday

       Chapter Four: ‘Don’t Cry, Englishman’

       Chapter Five: ‘What Seems to Be the Problem?’

       Chapter Six: For the Love of Horses

       Chapter Seven: Fly on the Wall

       Chapter Eight: We Saved a Life

       Chapter Nine: Into the Wild

       Chapter Ten: Between Two Worlds

       Chapter Eleven: The Kitten who Thought She Was a Parrot

       Chapter Twelve: Mad Cows and Doris the Goat

       Chapter Thirteen: ‘Happy Christmas, Clunky’

       Chapter Fourteen: Grumpy Lizards and Misty-eyed Gorillas

       Chapter Fifteen: Stella the Heifer

       Chapter Sixteen: Man’s Best Friend

       Chapter Seventeen: Horse Sense

       Chapter Eighteen: Luca the Great Dane

       Chapter Nineteen: The End in Sight

       Acknowledgements

       Moving Memoirs eNewsletter

       About the Publisher

       Critical Care and the Night Shift

      ‘Can you help her? Please? She means the world to me. I don’t know what I’d do without Misty.’

      Tears filled the eyes of the elderly woman on the other side of the consultation table as she looked down at the small white ball of fur in her arms.

      I took a deep breath.

      ‘Pop her on the table and let’s have a quick look.’

      Misty was a little terrier, and she was clearly feeling pretty ill. She lay on her side on the table in front of me, whimpering and panting frantically. Terriers can be real rascals, full of energy, always keeping their owners on their toes, but poor Misty was obviously in a bad way.

      I was doing my best to sound confident, but inside I was quaking. It was my first twelve-hour shift in Emergency Critical Care – the equivalent of accident and СКАЧАТЬ