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Cage Liners: Vignettes about pets, vets, owners and other animals.

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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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ISBN
9781496075963
Book Title
Cage Liners : Vignettes about Pets, Vets, Owners and Other Animals
Item Length
9in
Publisher
CreateSpace
Publication Year
2014
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.5in
Author
Robert Hart
Genre
Pets
Topic
Essays & Narratives
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
13.9 Oz
Number of Pages
222 Pages

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Cage Liners are light-hearted stories based on personal experience during the author's fifty years as a veterinarian. Most illustrate the relationships and behavior of pet owners, pets, receptionists, veterinary nurses and veterinarians, when they meet, and sometimes clash, over clinical cases. Veterinarians often line their hospital pet-cages with newspaper, or place newspaper under a blanket, because it is easily discarded when soiled. This suggested an eco-title for these stories which, if necessary, can be recycled in pet cages after reading. In the early chapters, as a city-boy student dealing with farm animals, he was humiliated on his first farm visit, perplexed by his feelings during farm surgery, embarrassed trying to shear a ewe, astonished by his mentor when testing a bull, and scared out of his boots by a charging pig. So, he expected small animal practice to be a breeze-duh-he learned rapidly that although veterinarians treat patients, they must deal with owners and staff. The highlights of his internship included helping a prostitute by curing her dog's skin problem and her offer to barter services; having a client strip in the office (before fainting); puzzling over the logic of 'wanting a dog spayed if she's pregnant, but not to spay her otherwise as the owner wants her to have puppies, ' adopting an injured pug who bonded with his fianc (after a rocky start), and being humbled by his own pride of knowledge. He learned that the success of treatment is often because the client trusts his veterinarian, in the words of Houdini, 'It's not the trick. It's the magician.' You will meet Aunt Josephine, his help-mate in telling some stories-a conscience figure who haunted his years of practice. Always ready to dispense wisdom at a moment's notice, she needs no excuse to dispense caustic advice. An author's ploy, she is a composite of several people compressed into one character for dramatic effect (and to save space). As the stories illustrate, to be in the presence of someone unashamedly self-righteous shows how remarkably open minded we are. It is much like hiring the incompetent to make one's self appear brilliant, or looking for pictures of ugly people to make one's self feel fabulous In many stories, time and place have been deliberately mingled, using later situations to trigger memories of early experiences, occasionally confusing pet and owner names-once even a mute client with a mute cat. Delight in the company of the Reverend Irish gentleman whose dog is "Drinking the plurality of gallons, so she is," who later adopted an abandoned case and helped the author counsel a young man whose dog ate his stash of pot. And there are tragedies that reinforce humility. A week from "Manic Monday" to "Frantic Friday" illustrates a variety of situations. As Thomas Magnum, P.I. once said-"Sometimes it helps to look for the obvious. Every case, no matter how simple, can lead you down a blind alley or two." By learning from a young teenager that cats can indeed talk, the author met her mother, Helen. They have now shared thirty-four years together. Finally, animal names may have been changed to protect them from embarrassment.

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ISBN-10
149607596x
ISBN-13
9781496075963
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
Cage Liners : Vignettes about Pets, Vets, Owners and Other Animals
Author
Robert Hart
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Essays & Narratives
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Pets
Number of Pages
222 Pages

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Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
13.9 Oz

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