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One of the things I love that I don’t write about here that much is the animal kingdom – particularly dogs – and this love has been fuelled in recent years by a fascinating program, ‘The Supervet’, about Noel Fitzpatrick. Noel runs a practice – the excitingly named ‘Fitzpatrick Referrals’ – and is a pioneer in surgeries on animals particularly in terms of helping dogs, cats and other small animals regain motor function. He has done some amazing things with animal bionics – and hopes to one day pursue ‘One Medicine’, bringing human and animal medicine together.<\/p>\n
This book is his story so far – and it is fascinating.<\/p>\n
This is not a manifesto for anything – other than one man’s passionate pursuit of excellence – but it is a fascinating and enjoyable read. Noel comes from an Irish Catholic farming family – and it is profoundly touching to see the way that each part of that background has contributed to his passion and purpose.<\/p>\n
This is a book by a ‘celebrity’, who has actually achieved something other than being famous, and seems to genuinely care for other people, and of course for other animals. Written in a conversational style, this is an easy read that gives insight into a public figure with some genuinely interesting things to say.<\/p>\n
If you are an animal lover, or just looking for a reasonably light – with the possible content warnings around Noel’s bullying at school – but readable biography, then\u00a0Listening to the Animals: Becoming the Supervet<\/em> is a great read. There is a delightful mix of humour, science, learning, romance and history that makes this a really enjoyable book. Not many books make me smile so much, and come close to tearing up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the things I love that I don’t write about here that much is the animal kingdom – particularly dogs – and this love has been fuelled in recent years by a fascinating program, ‘The Supervet’, about Noel Fitzpatrick. … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1011],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2951,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions\/2951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}