WOMEN VETERINARIES

Shannon News, 29 November 1927, Page 4

WOMEN VETERINARIES

A cordial, invitation to women |o join t,he profession was given at tire Congress of the National •VeterinaryMedical Association at Torquay byMajor F.. T. G. Hobday, the principal of the Royal Veterinary College. He said that while natural chivalry made them rather shudder , when they thought of women doing, oft-times the dirty work which accompanied medical or surgical attendance on sick cows or horses, there was an. enormqus field of untrodden gtound in connection with the smaller animals, among dogs and cats, rabbits, and even birds, which had a sentimental value hot to be calculated in, terms of money.' Dogs 1 were like human'beings and had brains of much the same kind. There wore idiots in the dog world, and nobody' could say that all human beings were quite sane. Women, obviously, had ! more gentle hands and showed . more affectionate care for domesticated ani- ! mals, and that would make them ideals animal doctors. That women could beat men at their own game was' shown by the fact that four had qualified already in Great Britain and have! taken high degrees. Miss Roberts, of! Liverpool, had been awarded the Williams memorial prize by her college for being the best student in the final examination.