Horses, Heifers and Hairy Pigs: The Life of a Yorkshire Vet

by Julian Norton

Overview

Star of Channel 5’s television series The Yorkshire Vet, Julian Norton has written a warm, evocative and often funny memoir of his life and the huge variety of animals and people he has met along the way.

From his childhood love of animals, through his training and first steps in the profession and the pressures and challenges faced by vets, dealing with unexpected exotic pets – and handling excitable humans too – Julian has seen all sides of the veterinary world and writes about it all with humour and affection. Just as happy calving a cow, treating a dehydrated chameleon or tending to the overgrown teeth of a rabbit, his passion for his work shines through on every page, as does his love for Yorkshire.

Published 100 years after the birth of James Herriott, and with a foreword by Herriott's son Jim Wight, Julian's story is sometimes sad, often funny and always warm and compassionate, bringing to life the world of the working vet and the highs and lows he and his colleagues face on a daily basis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782436843
Publisher:	Michael O'Mara Books
Publication date:	09/22/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Julian Norton qualified as a veterinary surgeon from Cambridge Veterinary School in 1996. He has spent most of his working life in his beloved North Yorkshire.

In 2015, Skeldale Veterinary Centre became involved with filming the Channel 5 television series The Yorkshire Vet, in which Julian has the title role.

Outside of work, Julian is a keen triathlete and ski mountaineer. He has represented team GB at age-group level for both middle-distance triathlon and long-course duathlon. He is currently training to compete in a team for the major ski mountaineering race, La Patrouille des Glaciers, which traverses the high peaks of Switzerland.

He is married to Anne, also a veterinary surgeon, and has two sons, Jack and Archie, a Jack Russell terrier called Emmy, and two guinea pigs called Sparkle and Shine.

Table of Contents

Foreword Jim Wight 7

Introduction 11

1 Hard Work and Determination 15

2 Anthrax and Appendicitis in Scotland 31

3 'Job's a Bad Un 41

4 There's Nowt Better than a Good Old Cow! 49

5 The Evil Salve 59

6 Monty Python 71

7 Up in the Night 81

8 Sabrina's Dead? 93

9 Working with the Herriot Vets 105

10 My Other Loves 115

11 A Year in the Cotswolds 127

12 Back in Thirsk 143

13 Foot-and-Mouth Disease - a Return to the Dark Ages 153

14 Life in the Protection Zone 167

15 The Persistent Itch 177

16 Bobby and Harvey the Inflatable Dog 189

17 World Records and Team GB 199

18 Things Stuck in Animals and Animals Stuck in Things 213

19 Changing Times 229

20 The Yorkshire Vet 243

Acknowledgements 254