Doctor Hugh

Dr Hugh Wirth AM KSJ, high-profile vet and long-standing RSPCA president, has spent a lifetime as an animal welfare advocate. Doctor Hugh is packed with engaging anecdotes about pets he has treated and owners he has told off from his days practicing as a young country vet and then in his busy suburban practice in Balwyn. Doctor Hugh has taught three generations of Australians how to care for their pets (no creature too great or small) through his weekly ABC radio show. Doctor Hugh has been the indomitable national chief of the RSPCA and on the world stage, president of the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) and he has taken on everyone from people perpetrating cruelty, to animal rights activists, public service mandarins, and his own profession. His memoirs, written in his unmistakable tell-it-as-it-is voice, will delight, enrage, inform, entertain, and teach every one of us how to care and understand the rights of animals in our modern world.