Animal Matters, Charlotte Rea
Animal Matters, Charlotte Rea
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Animal Matters
Diary of an Inner City Vet

Author: Charlotte Rea

Narrator: Heather Long

Unabridged: 7 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Coronet

Published: 02/21/2019


Synopsis

Animals bond people and transcend class, financial and cultural barriers, pets matter to people more than anything, but what happens to those people who can't afford pet insurance or vet's bills.

Animal Matters is a diary of real-life cases written during a year of Charlotte's career working as a veterinary surgeon in a 24-hour inner-city London animal charity hospital. The book provides readers with a revealing, honest, emotional experience, with deeply sad moments followed by amusing and unimaginable ones. Charlotte writes both short amusing diary entries along with more detailed accounts and reflections back on her training and the experiences and difficulties she has come up against over the decade since she graduated.

Throughout the book you will get to know both the animals and the people and how close the bond between us can be. Charlotte also discusses contemporary issues in veterinary medicine such as animal euthanasia, RSPCA welfare cases, mental health issues within the veterinary profession, ethical concerns around pedigree dog breeding and the laws on dangerous dogs.

Animal Matters is a moving and heartwarming book about the unconditional love between animals and humans, and how deep the bond can be.

(P)2019 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

About Charlotte Rea

Charlotte Rea is a veterinary surgeon currently working in a large London animal charity hospital. She graduated from vet school in 2008 and has since gone on to complete a post-graduate certificate in small animal medicine.She has spent several stints abroad working with various animal charities including in Nairobi for Kenya Wildlife Services and Worldwide Veterinary Service projects in Lisbon and on the Greek island of Samos. She is passionate about animal health and welfare and has spent nearly a decade of her life dedicated to the animals of London, including pampered dogs and cats, homeless and stray pets and city farm animals. Charlotte lives in north London with her husband, young daughter and eccentric, fluffy cat.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jayne

Wonderful emotional funny and informative read.......more

Goodreads review by Vicki

This book was really interesting as it goes into the finer points of running a veterinary hospital on behalf of a charity. There are many restrictions on what procedures can be done by the charity as the customers are only giving a donation for the care that their pet receives. There were also cases......more

Goodreads review by David

An entertaining and enlightening view of what it means to be a small-animal vet today. Charlotte Rea bring you all the heart-warming and heart-breaking stories you might expect , plus some thoughtful explorations of the issues behind some of her cases (such as problems with short-nosed dog breeds an......more

Goodreads review by Pat

I thoroughly enjoyed this contemporary memoir by female vet Charlotte Rea. I added the 'female' only because I have read most of the James Herriot books by now and unfairly, vets bring up a male image in my head. Charlotte would not approve. I read the anecdotes about Bert the budgie and later Bea a......more


Quotes

With as many horrifying stories as heartwarming ones, this is a fascinating look at the year in the life of a vet at a London animal charity hospital. There are some proper belly laughs as well as some insights that will truly stick with you - and after reading it you'll never buy a dog online. Grazia