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Through a Vet’s Eyes

By: Dr Sean Wensley FRCVS, Miranda Krestovnikoff - foreword
Narrated by: Paul Thornley
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Summary

One of the Financial Times' Best Summer Books of 2022

Our lives are intrinsically linked to those of animals—whether that's the animals we farm for food, those living in the wild, those we use for sport or the ones we choose to keep as pets. We all have a responsibility to consider our impact, and even small changes in our own lives could significantly improve the quality of theirs.

Dr Sean Wensley is an award-winning vet and lifelong naturalist, advocating animal wellbeing around the world. Fusing keen scientific insight with tender meditations on the natural world, Through a Vet's Eyes reveals the injustices which animals experience every day and raises an important question: how can we choose a better life for animals?

Compelling and compassionate, Through a Vet's Eyes helps us to see things from the animals' perspectives, and illuminates the ways we can better care for our fellow creatures.

©2022 Dr Sean Wensley (P)2022 Octopus Publishing Group
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A compelling account of the trials, tribulations and triumphs of life as a vet - and a lesson to us all on how we should treat the animals with which we share our lives. (Stephen Moss, naturalist and author of THE ROBIN: A BIOGRAPHY)
Over the years as a vet, I have experienced many of the same situations, challenges and feelings that Sean reflects on in this incredible book. He helps us see things from the animals' perspectives, which is one of the key skills that every vet has to learn. We must, as individuals and as societies, be responsible for the part we each play in the lives of animals, whether they be used for food, sport, as our pets or for our enjoyment in nature. I strongly encourage you to read this book - I believe it helps us to understand the interwoven challenges we face as we navigate an uncertain future and equips us with the tools necessary to make a difference. I'm already telling everyone I know to read it! (Dr Justine Shotton, President, British Veterinary Association)
Fascinating, engaging, urgent and important. Wensley is the ideal guide to the mysteries of the animal mind. If this doesn't revolutionize your view of the food on your plate and the whine of your dog, nothing will. (Charles Foster, author of BEING A BEAST and BEING A HUMAN)

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Love & care for animals in every word

Sean delivers a thought provoking and powerful message in a hugely accessible way interweaving his love of nature with his extreme concern for those animals we’ve domesticated and utilise. A hugely enjoyable read that makes you think how you can help change things.

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Excellent overview.

An interesting overview of the complexity of Animal production through the eyes of a vet, it will certainly provide a pointers and areas for deep thought. An excellent overview.

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Thought provoking discussion on animal welfare

The book is broad in its discussion on animal welfare issues, covering a number of species - farmed and pets. It is enlightening and thought-provking on the current issues surrounding the way we treat animals and offers tangible insights and suggested behaviour changes on how we can strike a better balance between humans and the other species which we co-habit the planet with. Would thoroughly recommend.

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Really changed the way I think about animal welfare

A must read! Valuable information for anyone eating animal products to make better choices. I am vegan and it helped me to understand how to discuss effective change to improve animal welfare

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