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mma’s Biography |
I still genuinely love animals which is why I have become so frustrated with some aspects of my work. I became a vet to help animals and soon realised that I spend a great deal of my time treating conditions that we have bred into the animals because of the concept of the ‘breed standard’. I’m very tired of seeing deformed pets with chronic problems because people believe they look best one way or another. I believe that nature knows best and the truth is that the extremes of shape and conformation we have created in our dogs and cats would never occur naturally. Many of these changes are a result of showing and breeding. I feel very strongly that if you have a pet it should be a relationship that is beneficial to both of you. I don’t like to see dogs being over-groomed and preened so that people can parade them round a ring to try to win prizes with them. This is of no benefit to the animals in any way and simply perpetuates an industry that is genetic modification gone mad.
Many of you will know that I was once married to Joe, one of the other vets on the series. We sadly split up some years ago now and I am glad to say that he is very happy and once again married, this time to the right woman!
As for me, I met a man called Mark in 2003 on a conference in Topeka, Kansas of all places. We completely hit it off straight away and the time since then has flown by. After three months I handed my notice in and moved to York to live with him. We’re extremely happy together and that’s about all you need, isn’t it?
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