A Triumph of Surgery

     -James Herriot

Tubby Tricki

Mr Herriot spots Mrs Pumphrey walking her dog, Tricki, in the street. Shocked at the dog’s fatness, he describes him as a fat sausage with a leg at each corner, glazed bloodshot eyes that look straight on and a drooping tongue. Mrs Pumphrey explains that on seeing Tricki very languid, she presumed he wasn’t eating enough and started giving him malt, cod-liver oil, Horlicks etc. in betwe…