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The essential step-by-step guide to achieving happiness and
success, as well as surmounting life's challenges when they arise,
this book focuses on the four main aspects of life where people
turn to professionals for help: career, money, dating and
relationships. Experienced life coach Caro Handley looks at common
problems and offers positive approaches to solving them, guiding
you through all the challenges you will face with an exercise, tip
or piece of advice. Follow each 30-step plan and you will get
support and encouragement, the tools for change and gain a deeper
understanding of who you are, where your strengths lie and be able
to make deep and lasting changes in your life.
The funny, touching and entertaining story of how Jo Hardy, the
star of BBC2's Young Vets, gets to grips with animals big and
small, friendly and not-at-all-happy, on the road to becoming a
fully qualified vet. 'Stand well clear. Keep your eyes on them. Oh,
and make sure you have insurance.' Not the most comforting words of
wisdom, but probably the most useful for a trainee vet, Jo would
say. From well-equipped surgeries to windswept hills and ramshackle
barns, Jo has to be able to diagnose and treat any animal, at any
time of the day or night. It's not quite as easy as James Herriot
made it seem. Jo's final year of training saw her race from rectal
examinations of cows to spine surgery on a Great Dane, and from
treating an eventing horse with a heart problem to inserting a
contraceptive implant into a monkey. And then there were the owners
- the tough guy who sobbed when his cat was diagnosed with cancer,
the woman who was convinced her dog was embarrassed by its stomach
upset, and the farmer who loved his cows as much as anyone loves
their pets. Gruelling days of animal treatments and visits combined
with long nights of study and revision made Jo's final year of
training the most demanding and rewarding year of her life. Her
book tells of the highs and lows, the pets that stole her heart,
and the lifelong friends that she made - with two legs and four.
From African goats to blue wildebeest, and potty pigs to dippy
donkeys, Jo Hardy, now a qualified vet, is about to take on the
world, one animal at a time. Jo is determined to go where vets are
desperately needed. Heading out first to the townships of South
Africa, then to Uganda. Dealing with life-and-death decisions and
much-loved family pets, here and abroad, including a giant French
rabbit, a labradoodle that stops breathing under anaesthetic and an
angry cat that won't get out of its box, Jo has to trust her
training as never before.
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