{"id":510278,"date":"2018-10-15T09:52:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T08:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=510278"},"modified":"2018-10-15T15:59:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T14:59:12","slug":"an-armful-of-animals-by-malcolm-d-welshman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/an-armful-of-animals-by-malcolm-d-welshman\/","title":{"rendered":"An Armful of Animals, by Malcolm D. Welshman"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Armful of Animals<\/h3>\n

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Malcolm D. Welshman has had a lifetime filled with exciting encounters with animals. As a lad in Nigeria, he is attacked by soldier ants and terrified by a snake in his treehouse. His treasured companion, Poucher, an African bush dog, prevents him and his mother from being savaged by baboons.
\nOnce qualified as a vet Malcolm has to attempt life-saving surgery on his beloved parrot. On a road trip across the Sahara, there is a tussle with a lame camel and the operation on an Ostrich gored by an antelope.
\nSettling back in West Sussex in England, he tackles a cow that\u2019s got stuck in a tree, wily cats and battles with cunning badgers and baby bats.
\nHe shares all these fascinating experiences in this gently humorous memoir that will guarantee to tug at the heart strings while bringing a smile to your face. Anyone who loves animals will be enchanted and enthralled.
\n\u2018A witty take on a young vet\u2019s life that pet lovers will find endearing.\u2019 \u2013 Bel Mooney, Daily Mail.
\n\u2018A joyful read full of animals and fun.\u2019 \u2013 Celia Haddon, author and former Daily Telegraph columnist.
\n\u2018Bursting with exotic creatures and eccentric characters, this touching memoir makes for a spellbinding read where the author\u2019s love of animals shines through.\u2019 \u2013 Jenny Itzcovitz, editor of Sixtyplusurfers.co.uk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Armful of Animals Malcolm D. Welshman has had a lifetime filled with exciting encounters with animals. As a lad in Nigeria, he is attacked by soldier ants and terrified by a snake in his treehouse. His treasured companion, Poucher, an African bush dog, prevents him and his mother from being savaged by baboons. Once […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":510280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510281,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510278\/revisions\/510281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}