In recent weeks, we asked you to select your favourite Instagram accounts which post veterinary-related content. This list features candidates from across the world in no particular order.
- Tommy Heffernan – Tommy provides an insight into how he juggles family life and veterinary consultancy.
- Gerard McGovern – The Cavan-based vet shares the “adventures of a large animal vet” through a series of photos and videos.
- Hazell Mullins – The Cork-based vet provides an insight into a day in the life of an Irish animal vet, capturing “cows, travel, case studies, farming, greyhounds” with “the odd touch of glam”.
- Richard Ryan – The Kilkenny native, grew up on a suckler and dairy farm, worked in the UK and Canada after qualifying before joining Thomastown Veterinary Clinic.
- Jane Alexander – The UCD graduate worked in two local practices after graduating before she moved to Uganda with her husband, where she works as a vet.
- John Fitzpatrick – The 30-year-old joined Fairgreen Veterinary Centre eight years ago and is now a joint-owner. The UCD graduate, who grew up on a suckler farm, shares small and large animal-related content on his account.
- Dr Oisín Tracey – The UCD graduate, an emergency vet in Perth, Australia, is also known as ‘Pawsome Doctor’.
- Dr. Cody Creelman – A vet and digital storyteller, who creates videos and podcasts, based in Alberta, Canada. He has recently created a unique programme that provides farmers with “actionable information, protocols and health systems to improve production and reduce costs”.
- Barbara Beci – The large animal vet is currently based in Thailand, but also lives and works between Slovenia and Belgium.
- Tom Searle – Based in Cardiff, Tom spends time “getting cows in-calve and calves out of cows” but can also “be found in the kitchen”.
- Dr. Jennifer – The large animal veterinary is also a fitness enthusiast, make-up junkie and mother-of-two.
- The Derbyshire Vet – This account strives to provide an insight into “life as a mixed veterinary surgeon in Derbyshire, UK”.
- Ruth – Captures life as a mixed practice vet in the Highlands of Scotland.
- The Veterinary Hospital Wexford – Find out about what life is like in a “busy, mixed” veterinary hospital in Wexford.
- Marketvell Vets – Harry and Margaux Markwell showcase their lives as equine and large animal surgeons vets;