A Triumph of Surgery

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The narrator is Mr. Herriot, a veterinary surgeon (animal doctor). He treats sick and injured animals and is the one who helps cure Tricki.

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Tricki is a small dog who is owned by Mrs. Pumphrey, a rich lady who pampers and spoils him excessively.

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Tricki had become hugely fat, like a bloated sausage with a leg at each corner. His eyes were bloodshot and rheumy, he stared straight ahead, and his tongue lolled from his jaws.

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Mrs. Pumphrey was giving Tricki malt, cod-liver oil, and a bowl of Horlicks at night. She also continued giving him cream cakes and chocolates despite the doctor's advice.

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Tricki's only fault was greed. He had never been known to refuse food and would tackle a meal at any hour of the day or night.

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Hodgkin, the gardener, had been down with lumbago (back pain), so there had been no ring-throwing lately. Tricki only had little walks with Mrs. Pumphrey.

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Mr. Herriot told her to cut Tricki's food right down, give him more exercise, harden her heart, and keep him on a very strict diet, or he would become really ill.

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Tricki would eat nothing, refused even his favourite dishes, had bouts of vomiting, spent all his time lying on a rug panting, and didn't want to go for walks or do anything.