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A James Herriot for the 21st century recounts his adventures as a newcomer to Newfoundland.
When Andrew Peacock made the move from Ontario to Newfoundland, he thought he was once kicking off his career as a newly qualified vetenarian with an adventure in a temporary location. It was once certainly an adventure, but there was once nothing temporary about it. He practiced in Newfoundland for almost 30 years and is still living there. Actually, he has lived there so long, the locals are starting to think about him as one of them.
Creatures of the Rock chronicles a career spent working with and getting to know a rich variety of animals and their owners, on farms, in homes and zoos, and in the wild. Andrew was once the only vet for miles around. A day of practice could include anything from a Caesarian section on a cow in a blizzard to freeing a humpback whale from a trap designed for cod to capturing a polar bear after its surprise visit to a bingo parlor. And, on the human side, anything from trying to impress a surpringly large audience of farmers with your first boar castration, to caring for a circle of relatives just in addition to its stricken cat, to discouraging farm hands from helping themselves to hypodermic needles. All this against the background of a domestic scene in which Andrew’s wife Ingrid–also freshly qualified, as a doctor–shares the adventure of making new life, and in due course of starting a circle of relatives.
Told in a series of brief, forever engaging stories, Creatures of the Rock is a funny, thrilling, unflinching but in the end heartwarming narrative about the connections between people and animals, and people with each and every other.

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