Doctor Hugh
My life with animals
Australia's iconic vet and RSPCA president gives a frank and lively account of the pets and animal welfare issues that have shaped his life.
Hugh has taught three generations of Australians how to care for their pets (no creature too great or small) through his weekly ABC radio show.
As, at times, the indomitable national chief of the RSPCA and the global president of the WSPA, he has taken everyone on-from people perpetrating cruelty to animal rights activists, public service mandarins and even his own profession. Despite being forthright and sometimes controversial, he has received a string of honours, awards and appointments.
Doctor Hugh's memoir, written in his unmistakable tell-it-as-it-is voice, will delight, enrage, inform, entertain and teach every one of us how to care for and understand the rights of animals in our modern world.
Author bio:
Dr Hugh Wirth AM is both a vet and an animal welfarist. He has appeared on a weekly talkback segment on the ABC since the early 1980s and is the author of three guidebooks on pets. Hugh has held a number of professional and government appointments, and has a string of accomplishments and awards, both Australian and international. He has been an Australia Day Ambassador since 1997. He is currently the President of RSPCA Victoria.
Anne Crawford was a feature writer for The Age and The Sunday Age for more than 10 years and is co-author of Doctor Hugh: My Life with Animals, Forged with Flames: A True Story of Courage and Survival, and Shadow of a Girl. Great Australian Horse Stories was published in 2013. Her most recent book, Women of Spirit, was released in May 2014. A horse-owner and horse- lover, Anne has ridden everywhere from the Victorian High Country to Patagonia to the deserts of Morocco. She lives in country Victoria where she rides a small mare with a lot of attitude called Poppy.
