Melissa Kite Melissa Kite

Real life | 25 January 2018

If they turn out to be another scary-ass group of professional offence-taking powerbrokers I think I’ll quit with the jokes

issue 27 January 2018

The vet who is unhappy that I cracked a joke about vets has received the backing of the British Veterinary Association.

This strangely brittle organisation, having nothing better to do, apparently, has put out a fantastically pious statement denouncing me for daring to joke that vets are expensive and that some seem keen to diagnose the worst-case scenario.

The BVA posted its statement on social media, an action that inevitably led to the usual snowflakestorm: how very dare I make fun of (fill in offended group)… Fine, asI said last week I’m happy to do away with humour if that’s what people want. Let’s just deal with the facts.

A young vet — not my usual one butI liked her very much — came to look at the swelling on Gracie’s leg and said it could be a suspensory ligament injury. I wanted to start from the premise that the injury wasto the tendon sheath, a less serious matter, and work up.

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