162: Street Dogs, Brave Vetting, and the Double Life of Dr Janey Lowes

<p>Twelve years ago, Dr Janey Lowes went to Sri Lanka on a holiday, and never really came home. Today she runs WECare Worldwide, a hospital that treats the island’s three million street dogs to a standard that you’d like your pet treated - from the worst trauma cases you can image do a highly efficient desexing service.  And then, a few times a year, she flies back to locum in clinics that look a lot like yours.</p><p>This one&#39;s about what it&#39;s like to live on both sides of that line that separates the reason we became vets, and the job most of us ended up with.</p><p><strong>We get into:</strong></p><ul><li>Do-or-die medicine in a place where you&#39;re the only option</li><li>How being the last line changes your perspectives, and what that does to your goalposts when you go back to first-world practice</li><li>The bits of ‘normal’ practice that Janey misses the most (no, it’s not the fancy equipment)</li><li>Charity vetting as a viable career option, not just a gap year - the good and the bad </li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Support WECare Worldwide:</strong>This work runs on donations, and Janey&#39;s currently raising for a new hospital by running six hundred kilometres, the length of Sri Lanka. (She’s not actually a runner…)</p><ul><li>Website and donations: <a href="https://wecareworldwide.org.uk/"><u>https://wecareworldwide.org.uk</u></a></li></ul><p>The charity takes volunteers and offers longer-term work </p><ul><li>Volunteer and work with WECare: <a href="https://wecareworldwide.org.uk/volunteer/"><u>https://wecareworldwide.org.uk/volunteer/</u></a></li><li>WECare on Instagram: @wecare_srilanka</li></ul><p><strong>Find Janey:</strong></p><ul><li>Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/janeythevet"><u>https://www.instagram.com/janeythevet</u></a></li><li>YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@janeythevet"><u>https://www.youtube.com/@janeythevet</u></a></li><li>Her book, <em>Janey the Vet: Saving Sri Lanka&#39;s Street Dogs</em>, is on Amazon, Waterstones and WH Smith</li></ul><p><strong>More from The Vet Vault:</strong></p><ul><li>Everything we do lives at <a href="https://www.thevetvault.com/"><u>https://www.thevetvault.com</u></a>, including our clinical CE podcasts and resources</li><li>Come learn with us in person at Vets on Tour: <a href="https://vetsontour.com/"><u>https://vetsontour.com</u></a></li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Topics and Time Stamps</strong></p><p>03:20 Going Viral, and the Unexpected Backlash</p><p>08:24 The