Special guest 1: David Williams

Quotes from our rather entertaining lecturer in Vet. Ethics...

'So you have these people, and their son's found a squirrel with a broken leg. And he wants to be a vet, and he's whining at you "Pleeease, please help him," so, what d'you think, would the owners... wait... sorry, parents, that's what you call them...'

later...

'So, do you give it a bit of blue juice, send him to the big oak tree in the sky, and tell the kid, "Don't be sad, go get yourself a cat - I'll vaccinate and worm it and everything for you (and fleece you for that)..." '

and on the topic of large animals:

'Well, the reason for keeping these animals is not [fawning voice and cat-stroking gesture with idiotic facial expression] "AwwwAAAWWWWawww, lovely an-ee-mal"...

erm... you kill it.'


Notes: these quotes from the PfVP lecture on Monday 31st October 2005. They're slightly paraphrased because I couldn't write them down as fast as he was talking...