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Dr Sarah Boston

Dr Sarah Boston

Here’s the thing, a Kangaroo is Not a Thing

A female kangaroo escaped from the Oshawa zoo on Friday morning. She spent the weekend on the lamb and was recaptured by the Durham police…

3 min readDec 5, 2023

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Here’s the thing, a Kangaroo is Not a Thing

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Dr Sarah Boston

Why Cecil Still Matters

I wrote this in 2015. So much has changed since then, but some things have stayed the same. I am reposting this because there has just been…

6 min readAug 14, 2021

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Why Cecil Still Matters

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Dr Sarah Boston

You Were Perfect

Even as you were dying, you were perfect. The way you politely paced in the middle of the night to see if one of us might be sleeping…

7 min readMay 29, 2021

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You Were Perfect

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Dr Sarah Boston

Thank you for your patience, practicing veterinary medicine during a pandemic

I recently read this tweet from a stand up comedian I follow:

6 min readMar 27, 2021

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Thank you for your patience, practicing veterinary medicine during a pandemic

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Dr Sarah Boston

Dear Human Hospitals — Veterinarians Have Found a Way to Say Goodbye to Dying Family Members.

During COVID, veterinary hospitals have had to close to the public. The human public, that is. Curbside medicine, where the pet comes in…

6 min readJun 16, 2020

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Dear Human Hospitals — Veterinarians Have Found a Way to Say Goodbye to Dying Family Members.

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Dr Sarah Boston

Comedy for Good

So a crazy thing happened recently. After a year of doing amateur stand up around Toronto, I actually made some money doing stand up! I am…

3 min readDec 14, 2019

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Comedy for Good

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Dr Sarah Boston

If only we could do something about bulldogs

I was working at a booth at some sort of animal expo for my employer years ago. I was the only veterinarian there, so even though my…

3 min readDec 13, 2019

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If only we could do something about bulldogs

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Dr Sarah Boston

Should we shine some light on the online trolls in veterinary medicine?

Veterinarians are killing themselves. That is a fact. There are a lot of theories about why. It’s complicated. But one thing we know about…

5 min readOct 7, 2019

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Should we shine some light on the online trolls in veterinary medicine?

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Dr Sarah Boston

Middle-Aged Lady Comedy

In my Second City comedy class I was old enough to be everyone’s mother. Except that I’m not a mother. I’m barren, which is one of my…

5 min readOct 6, 2019

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Middle-Aged Lady Comedy

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Dr Sarah Boston

Media’s emotional blackmail is killing veterinarians

Emotional blackmail is the new term being used to characterize the pressure that clients put on veterinarians to care for their pets, to…

4 min readMar 5, 2019

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Media’s emotional blackmail is killing veterinarians

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Dr Sarah Boston

Dr Sarah Boston

Dr Sarah Boston is a veterinary surgical oncologist,author(Lucky Dog,House of Anansi Press),cancer survivor & comedian https://drsarahboston.com @drsarahboston

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