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A Triumph of Surgery Summary

The story starts when Mrs. Pumphrey, a rich

lady takes her dog out for a walk. A nearby

veterinary doctor who knows the lady sees the

dog and is shocked as he sees that the dog looks

like a bloated sausage with a leg at each end. He

advises her to stop giving him unhealthy things

to eat but Mrs. Pumphrey is not able to refuse

him. Soon he falls sick and the doctor is called.

The narrator, Mr. Herriot then somehow takes

Tricki, the dog to the hospital even though he

knows that Mrs. Pumphrey is not ready to leave

her dog and nearly fainted just by hearing these

words.Then he takes the dog along and puts a

bed for him in his surgery. The dog doesn't

move much nor eats anything for the first two

days. On the second day he looks around and

whimpers a bit. He wanted to go out on the third

day and started playing with the bigger dogs

when he was taken out. He also licked the bowls

of other dogs clean on the third day.