Never Work with Animals

As an ex vet nurse I knew I would enjoy this book. It should be a must read for everyone who owns a pet. I could relate to nearly everything said. A much better expose of life as a vet than "all creatures great and small" ever was.

Excellent vet memoir.

Gareth Steel has been a qualified vet for almost 20 years. I loved this book which draws on many of his experiences.

I like how he's not claiming to be the world's best vet, or some sort of brain box. He's a regular vet-not to make it sound an easy job-I'm sure we all know it certainly isn't. I don't know if he's a 'telly vet', I'd not heard his name before reading his book, but he certainly knows his stuff, and this is an excellent read.

I find books like this really interesting; I've read quite a few vet memoirs before, and watched a few different TV series about vet life, and this one didn't disappoint-it was exceptionally interesting.

There's a good assortment of cases: Horses, cows, cats and dogs etc. And the downsides, like when customers don't want to pay their bill-the bits you don't get to see on the TV programmes. Includes some more controversial subjects; some of them grittier, harder hitting than I've read about before.

Even though I've already read many of the same genre, still there’s something different here, some very different scenarios. A brilliant book which was very hard to put down.