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Updated: May 21, 2025
As soon as the Cat's-meat-Man had told every one that John Dolittle was going to become an animal-doctor, old ladies began to bring him their pet pugs and poodles who had eaten too much cake; and farmers came many miles to show him sick cows and sheep. One day a plow-horse was brought to him; and the poor thing was terribly glad to find a man who could talk in horse-language.
"You know, the trouble is, Sir," said the plow-horse as the Doctor opened the front door to let him out "the trouble is that ANYBODY thinks he can doctor animals just because the animals don't complain. As a matter of fact it takes a much cleverer man to be a really good animal-doctor than it does to be a good people's doctor. My farmer's boy thinks he knows all about horses.
But the dogs and the cats and the children still ran up and followed him through the town the same as they had done when he was rich. IT happened one day that the Doctor was sitting in his kitchen talking with the Cat's-meat-Man who had come to see him with a stomach-ache. "Why don't you give up being a people's doctor, and be an animal-doctor?" asked the Cat's-meat-Man.
Give the silly people up if they haven't brains enough to see you're the best doctor in the world. Take care of animals instead THEY'll soon find it out. Be an animal-doctor." "Oh, there are plenty of animal-doctors," said John Dolittle, putting the flower-pots outside on the window-sill to get the rain. "Yes, there ARE plenty," said Polynesia. "But none of them are any good at all.
But they'll get sick anyway, because the old women always give 'em too much to eat. And look, all the farmers 'round about who had lame horses and weak lambs they'd come. Be an animal-doctor." When the Cat's-meat-Man had gone the parrot flew off the window on to the Doctor's table and said, "That man's got sense. That's what you ought to do. Be an animal-doctor.
Then suddenly they all cried out in great fear, Let us get on to the ship before they eat us! Help, help! The sharks! The sharks!" And now the Doctor could see, all over the bay, the backs of big fishes swimming swiftly through the water. And one great shark came near to the ship, and poking his nose out of the water he said to the Doctor, "Are you John Dolittle, the famous animal-doctor?"
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