Thursday, April 12, 1984/The Battalion/Page 7 eterinarian's life mirror of bestseller ‘-'oncen tad |j| K to ; f'fff :| > I exas Chorus sponsors I for r of rbury, stol and me who ike his mien’s : or mail awer K-I 7844 lition ideal, ferred to tl Tuesdai five hours severely s« :enia and still attacly ; ground ne > in La Man 00 reward agio the ids Dr, Jeanna Fiske examines a three- day-old colt while her associate. Dr. Photo by DAVE SCOTT Jenny Bowers, assists. Fiske and Bow ers operate a local veterinary clinic. By DAVE SCOTT Stall Writer he ragged, day-old wound located high upon the soft bysparenti ^ °f ^ horse’s left hind The veterinarian’s gloved |d, inserted fully inside the inch wound, made ugly slurping noises as it probed cleaned the cut. Bright red d overflowed the wound, Je by the jagged end of a two ■our, and streamed down the Wehadaltlof the brown mare. The ig the parailse was stretched out on its bricks,bonq .under anesthetic, breath- evenly and regularly, ce did noiail lunching over the rear of ed lemakers i» orthanded. horse, Dr. Jeanna Fiske is at k in a small pasture just e Station, him height and he sail d, with neck-length brown and pearl earrings in her accused |# ced ears. She wears a tan V- ksweater over a plaid shirt, jeans and cowboy boots, all through the messy k, Fiske remained perfectly tless, not a drop of anything her. A phenomenon for Rights Con Ashe has no explanation, ministers ri pending a day with her and associate is like living a iter of the best-selling book Creatures Great and ill.” The book, and the se- which followed it, is an au- lographical story by Dr. les Herriot, concentrating inly on his experiences as a rinarian in Yorkshire, En id. iske, who has read all the ks many times over, says although Herriot’s books a lot ofpet ihofColle rrested «li he is nie< overreadiif ty grand officers lizing op narch. itors selecid uct of kli rs and polid Drive 1. id take place prior to World War II and are set in another coun try, she and Herriot have a lot in common. “1 would say around 80 per cent of the things that hap pened to him, have happened to me,” Fiske said. “Every time I reread one of the books I Find something new. His books are exceedingly realistic.” Like Herriot, Fiske says she has been in the middle of treat ing an animal and to her embar rassment, found she suddenly could not remember the own er’s name. She also has sat down to dinner with owner and fam ily after working on a sick ani mal, a scene often repeated in Herriot’s books. Fiske recounts a particular story in “All Creatures” about an old man’s dog that Herriot must put to sleep. Fiske tells with empathy of how the veterinarian realizes at once that the old, grey-muzzled animal needs to be put to sleep, but also that the dog is much more than a pet to the family less old man. The old man tells his only companion good-bye and Her riot puts the dog to sleep. Af terward the old man realizes he has no way to pay the veterinar ian. But as Herriot is walking to his car, the old man rushes out of the house with perhaps his only other prized possession, a fine old cigar, that he gives to Herriot. Fiske says that she has re ceived flowers or cookies in stead of usual payment. And, also like Herriot, never charges for putting an animal to sleep. She says it is just something she cannot do, perhaps indicating something more than experi ences that Fiske and Herriot have in common. Fiske, 34, has been operating the Valley Veterinary Clinic in College Station for three and a half years. Her practice, which now includes an associate, Dr. Jenny Bowers, is almost strictly large-animal, which requires her to travel to her patients. She is specially equipped for her mobile practice. The pickup she drives has a mobile clinic in the bed. Fiske says the mobile clinics, which have hot and cold running water, a refrigerator and lots of storage space, cost about $6,000. Fiske also travels with a beeper attached to her belt so that she can be located for emergencies. She opened her practice im mediately after graduating from the Texas A&M School of Veterinary Medicine. Fiske describes the route to her present situation as “rather circuitous.” She graduated from high school and received a schol arship to study veterinary medi cine at Texas A&M in 1967. At that time, Fiske says, there were about 50 women in her freshmen class who weren’t daughters of faculty or con nected to the University in some other way. Fiske spent three semesters at Texas A&M before getting married. She says she and her husband Robert, who was a vet erinary student at that time, met in a fitting way: “We met romantically over a small-animal anesthesia ma chine while spaying a dog.” Her husband now is a veteri nary pathologist at the Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory located here, they have some interesting conversa tions over the dinner table, Fiske says. see Veterinarian page 9 OPEN HOUSE Courtyard Apartments Space *** Price ** Location ** Local Owner *** Outstanding Maintenance Come See Why We Are College Station’s “Standard of Quality’’ and Save with our Early Bird Leases Refreshments and Special Gifts Saturday April 7 Saturday & Sunday April 14,15 or come by anytime 8-6 Monday - Friday 600 University Oaks Highway 30 at Stalling Drive 693-2772 /-/j 7 WHAT SETS US APART ^ FROM THE OTHER R VETERINARY SCHOOLS? 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