162: Street Dogs, Brave Vetting, and the Double Life of Dr Janey Lowes
About this episode
Dr. Janey Lowes discusses her experiences treating street dogs in Sri Lanka and the contrasts with first-world veterinary practice.
Twelve years ago, Dr Janey Lowes went to Sri Lanka on a holiday, and never really came home. Today she runs WECare Worldwide, a hospital that treats the island’s three million street dogs to a standard that you’d like your pet treated - from the worst trauma cases you can image do a highly efficient desexing service. And then, a few times a year, she flies back to locum in clinics that look a lot like yours. This one's about what it's like to live on both sides of that line that separates the reason we became vets, and the job most of us ended up with. We get into: Do-or-die medicine in a place where you're the only option How being the last line changes your perspectives, and what that does to your goalposts when you go back to first-world practice The bits of ‘normal’ practice that Janey misses the most (no, it’s not the fancy equipment) Charity vetting as a viable career option, not just a gap year - the good and the bad Support WECare Worldwide: This work runs on donations, and Janey's currently raising for a new hospital by running six hundred kilometres, the length of Sri Lanka. (She’s not actually a runner…) Website and donations: https://wecareworldwide.org.uk The charity…
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