Dr Jim Euclid

From Felipedia

Dr Jim Euclid, BVSc(Hons), BVBiol (Hons), PhD, fell in love with a cat on a hot tin roof when he was 6, rescuing a stray Siamese from the family's Labrador. He has been around cats (big and small) ever since and has a fondness for the Siamese. Growing up in tropical North Queensland, he saw his first case of Heartworm disease at age 11, which crystallized his desire to become a veterinarian. He finally graduated as a vet in 1985 from the University of Queensland, but not before completing a seminal thesis on Heartworm disease with Professor Rick Atwell.

After five years of general practice around Australia, including a brief stint on a live-sheep-export ship to the Middle East, he undertook a PhD at James Cook University on heartworm disease. Returning to general practise, he also began self-publishing a number of fictional works, including the critically acclaimed Trial of the Gadfly and other plays, and a veterinary novel Philosophically Speaking. This was followed by the co-authored novel, The Physician’s Mind, with one of Australia’s top psychiatrists, Dr Alisdair Vance.

Since 2001, he has worked exclusively in feline practise and operates a small practise in the Mornington Peninsula.