In the same vein as “All Creatures Great and Small”, this is
a vet’s memoir. Instead of the English countryside, though, Camuti works in New
York City, doing house calls. He found that a routine of starting his rounds in
late afternoon and finishing around midnight worked best for his clients. His
wife drove him around, and stayed in the car while he treated his patients.
Some of his clients were show business folks; some were even famous. But fame
doesn’t mean anything to Camuti; he judges his clients on how much they love
their cats.
The book intersperses the doctor’s biography (he was born in
1893, so we get a lot of stories from the early parts of the century) with
stories about this clients, both human and fuzzy. While some of his advice is
out of date (book was written in 1980), the book is primarily enjoyable for the
cat anecdotes. Five stars.
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