Russell Lyon recalls with candour and wit the many years he has spent working as a vet in the UK and abroad. He gives many fascinating insights into how the profession has changed since the sixties and includes a wealth of fabulous characters (human and animal) he has encountered and treated. From altruistic Hong Kong business man Mr Ng who sets out every morning to rescue stray dogs to ageing fenland farmers who continue there almost mythological society of horse whispering. This is a life affirming tale of the diversity of people, their animals and the professionals who maintain their well being.
Vet for Hire will have you thinking, laughing, puzzled and tearful, and often within the confines of a single paragraph. Uniquely Russell takes us from the origins of veterinary science with the ancient Greeks and the Romans, through the great developments in the age of enlightenment to the origins of modern veterinary science in the UK with the Victorians... and all via his work as a vet with the less than perfect animal owing public that is all of us!
Vet for Hire will have you thinking, laughing, puzzled and tearful, and often within the confines of a single paragraph. Uniquely Russell takes us from the origins of veterinary science with the ancient Greeks and the Romans, through the great developments in the age of enlightenment to the origins of modern veterinary science in the UK with the Victorians... and all via his work as a vet with the less than perfect animal owing public that is all of us!
