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When the Going Gets Tough: Still More Adventures from a Country Vet
When the Going Gets Tough: Still More Adventures from a Country Vet
When the Going Gets Tough: Still More Adventures from a Country Vet
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After four Canadian bestsellers in his "Country Vet" series, Dr. Dave Perrin is back with more accounts of his adventures as a veterinarian in the backwoods of southeastern British Columbia.

Construction on his dream home is progressing at a snail's pace, but everything else in Dr. Dave's complicated life is charging ahead full tilt. He's hired a recent graduate to assist with his practice and is moving to a new clinic. With faithful dog, Lug, at his side, Dave deals with a multitude of eccentric clients and unpredictable patients: Petunia, the housebroken calf; Skroopchuck, the cat from hell; Snowball, the cockatoo with a taste for blood; Greta Maletta, the family pet who doesn't know she's a chicken; and Coonie, a wayward raccoon who lays claim to the family farm.

A Horse in distress brings Dr. Dave in touch with romance again when he meets the owner. Although people say he can work magic with animals, can his charm work on the human species? Meanwhile, the new vet has everyone convinced he alone can solve their problems. While mentoring his assistant, Dr. Dave learns a few things about himself—that not everyone responds to the rigours of practice as he does, and that his protégé appears to be leaning to the dark side...

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Release dateOct 13, 2015
ISBN9780986656927
When the Going Gets Tough: Still More Adventures from a Country Vet
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Dr. David Perrin

Dr. Dave Perrin (1948- ) was raised in Casino, a small town nestled in the hills near Trail, British Columbia. He attended Selkirk College in Castlegar, the University of British Columbia, and the Western College of Veterinary Medicine at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He graduated in 1973 and practiced in the Creston Valley until 1998. After a year in Hawaii where he began writing the first book about the profession he loves, he returned to his farm in Lister, BC. He established Dave's Press and began publishing books on his veterinary adventures: "Don't Turn Your Back in the Barn" (2000), "Dr. Dave's Stallside Manner" (2001), "Where Does it Hurt?" (2003), "Never Say Die" (2006), and "When the Going Gets Tough" (2010). In 2004, Dave's Press published a book about a young girl growing up in the fundamentalist Latter-Day Saint community of Bountiful, called "Keep Sweet: Children of Polygamy", which went on to win the Vancity Prize for the best book published in British Columbia on women's issues. Dr. Perrin lives and writes in the log home he built on his farm in the community of Lister, BC.

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