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Zibby Readers. Dr. Amy Addis is the author of Pets and the City, True Tales of a Manhattan

House Call veterinarian. Dr. Amy is an award-winning

veterinarian and founder of City Pets, which for more than three decades has been the premier

veterinary medical house call practice for dogs and cats, living, working in, or visiting Manhattan.

Her new book, Pets in the City, True Tales of a Manhattan House Call veterinarian, came out in June.

She shares a home with her husband, Stephen Shapiro, and if she is lucky, some rescued pugs.

Welcome, Dr. Amy.

Thank you so much for coming on moms and don't have time to read books to discuss pets and the city,

True Tales of a Manhattan House Call veterinarian. So juicy. Very exciting.

Thank you. Very exciting for me. I'm very happy to be here. So tell listeners, when did you

decide to write this book? Has it been in the back of your head for a long time? And then talk about,

which I know you do in the book, how you got into being a veterinarian and how you ended up in this house call business. So, yes, there's been a book in my head for a really long time. In fact, some days I would wake up and think I'd already written a book and realize, no, no, it's only written in my head. And the genesis of it was that I would come home from work every day and say to my husband, you will never believe what happened today. And when it kept going on and on for months, he said, you better go in the other room and start writing things down because as much as you think you're going to remember things, you don't. And it got to the point where I could just write two or three sentences down, and then I would remember the entire scenario. So I had been a vet for

five years prior to starting my house call practice, but things were not the same in a brick and

mortar hospital. People would come in, I would see their pet, they would go home. I would know

nothing about their lives, their families, their homes, you know, all the little things that make us who we are,

we don't show them when we go to a doctor's office. So everything became an interesting story,

driving around in a car, driving through Manhattan, dealing with traffic jams and emergencies

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