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True Story

It Shouldn’t Happen to a Philosopher

Fiona Dalzell finds it hard being a philosophical vet.

Ewan, one of the other vets in the practice where I work, announced with a wave of a plump and petulant hand that he was finding vaccinations and free flea checks too dull to bother with. Such things were now to be left to lesser, less gifted mortals. If a check slipped its way onto his appointment list then terrible tantrums occurred. So for the greater good of the rest of the staff, my days slowly turned into torture sessions of parasitology. Double-helixed nightmares of mutant fleas spun round inside my head during those hot summer evening consulting sessions.

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