Word: veterinarian
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...gray fox was recently presented to the Bronx Zoo by an up-State Italian farmer. The zoo's veterinarian remarked about the fine condition of the animal and asked the farmer, "What have you been feeding him?" "He eat the spaghett--lotsa spaghett. Slop like for the pigs, too," the farmer replied. The veterinarian said he never saw a better fox, according to Animal Kingdom, the Bronx Zoo's bulletin.--N. Y. Times...
...tore her to ribbons and she was still trying to rise and fight back. She had run from the Colonel that morning and made a beeline for the spot where she usually met me, and she fought this big dog for what she considered her rightful place. The veterinarian, who likes us both, says he will see her well and will intercede to give her another chance...
...colicky cow in Ithaca, N.Y., a veterinarian prescribed stiff doses of kerosene. Farmer Royden M. Vose tried to buy four quarts, ran into rationing trouble, finally talked a dealer into letting him supply the coupons later. He sent a letter to the Office of Price Administration office in Syracuse. No answer. Off went another letter. This time back came an OPA questionnaire to be filled...
...Angeles veterinarian and a taxidermist drove out one day last week to the San Fernando Valley ranch of the late Tom Mix, walked into a shed where the most famous horse since Pegasus stood in the mildness of his last few moments alive. The horse was Tony, who was a scrawny yearling following a vegetable wagon around a small town in Arizona when Tom Mix gave $12.50 for him. In the years that followed, Tony became the valiant central symbol of a cinematic age of innocence, the hero of millions of small boys and some of the best juveniles ever...
...scene long ago, had grown so painfully stiff that someone had to be kept in his stall to help him to his feet. Since Tom Mix's death two years ago, there had been a vacant look in Tony's eye. He was scarcely aware of the veterinarian and taxidermist when they came in. A few seconds later he was no longer aware of anything. The veterinarian had injected five ounces of chloral hydrate into Tony's heart. At once the taxidermist set about flaying the cadaver so that Tony (stuffed) may tour the country...