Help me find a book about a vet - not James Herriot

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I'm looking for a book I read when I was about 12 I guess.

It's an autobiography. A, I guess, fairly wealthy family's son who had polio (?) when young and one bit describes him sitting in a bath chair and being given an oyster which he spat out as being like 'dogs eyes'.

He rescued pets during WWII (not being fit to fight), including dachshunds which were being abandoned due to their being too German. I think he also rescued a chimpanzee and recounts getting a lemon during the War and it being one of the most tasty things he can imagine.

I think at the end of the war he moved to the States to work with zoo animals but I'm not sure. Has anyone read this? My google powers have entirely failed.

If you don't get any luck here, there is a second hand book site called AbeBooks, and they have a forum, including a section where people pose this sort of question.

I asked there when I couldn't remember the name of a book I read as a teenager, and got the answer back within a very short time indeed.

could this be him Buster LLoyd Jones

bruffin - you are a total star. That's exactly him.

Thank you so much.

Forgot to say i googled "vet books second world war polio" His books are available 2nd hand on amazon

Whereas when I did that it seemed to come up with war veterans books

Its odd isnt it