Jerry Haigh

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A big move from Africa to Canada; weather as I did not know it; a disastrous start with a fortunate ending.

Working in the half dark of a crowded post-office, jam-packed with Rwandans and three other Europeans (as any white person was called), I struggled to compose the telegram. It must, for reasons of economy, contain the fewest possible words, and still be intelligible after winging its way through the wires and across the aether to Canada.

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My career as a wildlife veterinarian and storyteller has taken me to many countries for work on a wide range of species. I enjoy relating stories about the wild animal work, which range from having soldier ants up my shorts and pregnancy checking a lion to giving an enema to a rhino and encounters with a shaman from the Tsaatan or Dhuka reindeer herders in the mountains of Mongolia. I enjoy weaving African and other folktales into accounts of my own experiences with animals.

My first book of non-fiction was ‘Wrestling With Rhinos: The Adventures of A Glasgow Vet in Kenya’ (ECW 2002). This was followed by ‘The Trouble with Lions: A Glasgow Vet in Africa’ (UAP 2007). I am currently working on the manuscript for a new book about wildlife veterinary medicine in Canada. The working title is ‘From Polar Bears To Porcupines: A Glasgow Vet in Canada’. Alternatively it may end up as ‘Of Moose And Men: A Glasgow Vet in Canada’.

Wildlife Vet, Author, Storyteller

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