When things weren’t going well he carried on long muttered conversations with himself, but when he was particularly pleased about something he was inclined to break into a loud, tuneless humming.
I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.
I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.
This old man had once told me that he left school when he was twelve, whereas I had spent most of the twenty-four years of my life in study. Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come...
Came in elegant white cartons, so much more impressive than
Though in her late thirties, she had no fears of spinsterhood because she had been assiduously courted for fifteen years by Charlie Hudson from the Darrowby fish shop and though Charlie was not a temp...
Me dad used to say a strange dog would allus get a cow up. There were murmurs of assent from the assembled farmers and immediate offers of dogs. I tried to point out that one would be enough but my au...
I overheard one youngster asking another: Has he grilled you on the causes of fits in calves yet? Don’t worry, he will. That made me feel suddenly old but there was compensation on another occasion wh...
Onto a heap, making a churned brown trail across the whiteness. ‘Now then,’ he muttered along the side of a half-smoked cigarette. He was over seventy but still ran the smallholding single-handed. He...
Nearly mad before you cleaned
As long as a man can pay ’is way, he’s got enough.
No animal is a better judge of comfort than a cat
My mind went back to that picture in the obstetrics book. A cow standing in the middle of a gleaming floor while a sleek veterinary surgeon in a spotless parturition overall inserted his arm to a poli...
Bernard’s had ‘is hand
And as I methodically trimmed the overgrown nails, wrathful bubbles escaped on either side of the bandage along with his splutterings. If dogs could swear I was getting the biggest cursing in history....
We were using ether and oxygen as anaesthetic and she was particularly adept at holding her breath while the mask was on her face then returning suddenly to violent life when we thought she was asleep...
There are great days ahead!
It was the first time I had had the opportunity of drinking champagne by the pint and it was a rewarding experience. I
I think it was the beginning of Mrs. Bond's unquestioning faith in me when she saw me quickly enveloping the cat till all you could see of him was a small black and white head protruding from an immov...
He was polishing the glass with a dead hen.