“Them as can do has to do for them as can’t. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.”
-Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
Rose is a Registered Veterinary Technologist from British Columbia, Canada, who is currently living and working in Alaska. She graduated from Thompson Rivers University in 2014 with a Faculty’s Choice award recognizing her creative nonfiction, has had her work widely shared on social media and among the veterinary community, and has had an article published in West Coast Veterinarian as well as having her prose featured at the 2015 BC Veterinary Technologist Association’s spring conference. Writing and veterinary medicine have always been her main passions.
When not working in a large general-emergency-speciality practice, Rose volunteers her time with the Canadian Animal Assistance Team and fosters for local animal rescue groups including the BCSPCA. To date, she has fostered over 150 cats (and two dogs). She currently shares her house with her one and only foster failure, ‘Theo’, an ex-feral turned pampered lapcat with a huge heart (and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy).
Rose has a passion for sharing the ups and downs of veterinary life, humanizing the hard-working veterinarians, technicians, assistants, receptionists, and kennel staff who throw their hearts and souls into caring for animals, often with little recognition or reward. She strives for greater public understanding of animal medicine, care, and why veterinarians do the things they do.
Huge thanks to Melanie Nichole Photography, Sam H, Caitlin B, Rob S, Nicole M, and the many others who supplied photographs and volunteered animals for this blog.