This is the follow-up to Hick's Vet on the Loose, which I read last week and enjoyed - luckily for me the library had both of them and so, looking for something light and entertaining, I picked up the second volume as well. In this book, Hick is well-established as a vet, and while a lot of the stories here are set at her normal practice, there are a few that come from her regular shifts as a volunteer vet for an animal charity, doing low-cost consultations for people who might otherwise struggle to get care for their beloved pets. As in the first volume, there's a lot of humour - I think the best example of this, and the chapter that I found most entertaining, was on Sydney the sickly boa constrictor, who was surrendered by an owner who couldn't look after him. Hick had to keep him at her own house for a week to nurse him back to health. The only problem was she loathed snakes, and with Sydney it seems the feeling was mutual. Her determination to treat him - a treatment which required daily warm baths and forced feeding - combined with her absolute repulsion at even having to touch the thing, was really very funny... and I sympathised enormously. Coming from a country with no snakes myself, I couldn't bear to have one in the house either. I know it's not their fault for being snakes, but ugh.