Nature People don’t want to hear it when you tell them to run over amphibians Ah – the internet. One minute in which to arm myself with an encyclopaedic knowledge about frogs. By John Brooke
Should you shell out for a dog’s MRI scan when there are queues at the local food bank? Money determines which procedures and treatments are carried out. I tend to discourage clients from spending ridiculous sums on… By John Brooke
The day I treated H G Wells’s poodle (without the need for a time machine) It is always an enormous bonus when a doppelgänger – artistic, philosophical, sporting, political – walks into the practice. By John Brooke
Animal Farm: the behavioural benefits of castration A week in which I neutered 40 calves, two colts, three dogs and a raccoon. By John Brooke
Most vets could tell you about rabbit food, but how many can geld a colt or Caesar a cow? In my life as a member of an endangered species (the mixed vet), I go to work with no… By John Brooke