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WHITBY FREE PIRS, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 10, 198M PAGE 7 Longàrtimle -veterin arian recails 'rewarding 'ecareer - Durlng World War II, British native Richard J. Ketcheil struck up a friendship with a Goderich, Ont. veterinarian. Today Dr. Ketcheli, now retlred after 35 years as a veterinarian, looks back on that frien- dship with Dr. John See as the impetus for what By MIKE JOHNSTON If you're golng ta give a dog gr cat as a present this Christmas, Carabe Lang would like you ta do itnow. And if it isn't possible now Lang would like you to walt until after Chrstmas. 1 We do not approve of live thlngs belng given as gifts," sald Lang, imanager of the Pickering-Ajax-Whitby (PAW) animal contrai center on Thlckson Rd. N.. Whtby. But anyona giving an animal as a present, now ls the best time. he says was a most rewardlng career. "lIt's the hast thing that ever happened to me. I would have paid somneone ta let me be a vet," asys the 69-year- old resident of the historic Watson home on Dufferin St., Whitby. "It was neyer a bar- dship for me ta go to "They should adopt an animal wall bafore Chrstmas," said Lang, if only for what she cails 'the stress factor." Stress is nat put on the owner but on the pet. 1Many of the activities assaciatad with Christ- mas, whlch most people take for granted, put a tremendous amount af stress on most animaIs, said Lang. It la nat unusual for a pet ta have diarrhea or excessive vomiting. Lang said pine trees and Christmas plants SEE PAGE 26 work." On Nov. 15 Ketchel received a life member- ship in the Ontario Veterinary Association, given to 3&-year mem- bers. Just two weeks earlier, he and wife Marjorie celebrated their 40th nnversary. Not long after their marriage, Ketchell, who grew up on a dairy farm on the Somerset-Devon border in England, travelled in the hold of a U.S. ship ta New York. Marjorie would later corne over by plane. Ketcheli attended the Ontario Veterinary College in Guelph, graduating in 1951. He earned the top three graduate awards, in- cluding general proficiency, and was a veterinarian in Port Credit for five years. For the next 30.years he pract ised at a veterinary haspital at Markhaun Rd. and Eglinton Ave. About 90 per cent of bis patients were cats and dags, but he remembers budgies, canaries, bamsters, snakes, alligators and DR. RICHARD Ketcheil with the life membership ta the veterinary association. "the aid goat" as oc- casional visitors ta the cinic. He remembers a 23- old-cat and an.18-year- aId dog, and can't recal a St. Bernard or a Great Dane ever living past 10. The greatest satisfac- tian was the gratitude of animal awners. The, mast difficult moments were the l'interviews." "The saddest thing is ta tell theai that the best thing la ta let it go," said Ketchell. "'You tel them Muffy is dying, and sometimaes they -dan't believe it. " The Ketchelîs, who moved from Toronto tai Whitby in. 1972, also knaw theasadness. Their cat, Pong, died of can- cer, leaving anby Ping, 16. They also once had a dog, but he disappeared. Ketcheli says there have been mnany changes ln veterinary work over the years, but he sees the development of mlcrotechnlques for dlagnosis as perhaps the most significant. The least change bas been ln surgery, which he par-, ticularly enjoyed. The Ontario Veterinary Association divided into two groupa at the tisne of his retiremnent, in 1985. The association looks after Iicensing and, discipline of mernbers. Mean- while, the Saciety of On- tario Veterinarians, the other group, bas more and more assumned con- trol of cantinulng education prograrns in veterinary work. The samne division of responsibility had previously taken place in Britain. For many years, Ket- chahl was a Senate member of the Univer- sity of Toronto. 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