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Rivka Galchen Reads “How I Became a Vet”

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Dogs Have Diarrhea All the Time

The Irish wolfhound Aggie had tremendous grace and several contusions. He needed to be worked up for fractures and for the mystery of why a dog, generally obedient, had gone wild. A parrot was brought in with reports of seizures. She suddenly gets stiff and falls off the bar, then lies on the floor of the cage. It's happened a few times now. I did not intuit that she was lying, the human. The owner looked stunned like a cow in a traffic jam. So now I had exceeded my allotment of negative reviews.

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