Exceptional Creatures: Stories from the Veterinary Field

By Cat Whitney

Book Overview

Ever wonder what happens when they take your pet to The Back in the veterinary hospital? Being a veterinary technician is not a glamorous job, nor one that often makes headlines, but technicians are at the heart of life-and-death struggles every day. In the same way back-up singers for a headlining star are there for their love of music and not fame, technicians move through challenges of loving and letting go, communicating and comforting, in between keeping their nursing skills sharp and watching the decimal points in their drug dose calculations. Meet an orange kitten named Baby Reefer, Ed and Spike who have trouble with testicles, Greg, the gay-cowboy-chef-veterinary technician, and Ned, the dog who wandered alone in the Alaskan wilderness for 6 weeks. Veterinary professionals will laugh at Whitney's universal observations and wit. Pet owners will get the inside story and learn some biology.Even readers who don't consider themselves animal lovers will enjoy the human observations and reflections in this memoir. What readers are saying about Exceptional Creatures: "I laughed out loud, especially at the scatological parts " ..". a fantastic storyteller, with a great deal of empathy for humans and animals alike." "It exposed me to a world that I never knew, What an education The fact that it was exceptionally well written was frosting on the cake." Blog can be found at http: //exceptionalcreatures.blogspot.com/

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149215329X
• ISBN13: 9781492153290
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"