The Patron Saint of Lost Dogs
Written by Nick Trout
Narrated by Peter Berkrot
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About this audiobook
With the help of a black Labrador gifted in the art of swallowing underwear, a Persian cat determined to expose her owner's lover as a gold digger, and the allure of a feisty, pretty waitress from the local diner, Cyrus gets caught up in a new community and its endearing residents, both human and animal. Sensing he may have misjudged the past, he begins to realize it's not just his patients that need healing.
The Patron Saint of Lost Dogs is a winsome tale of new beginnings, forgiveness, and the joy of finding your way home.
Nick Trout
Dr. Nick Trout works full-time as a staff surgeon at the prestigious Angell Animal Medical Center in Boston. He is the author of five previous books, including the New York Times bestseller Tell Me Where It Hurts, and his writing has been translated into sixteen different languages. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Kathy; their daughter, Emily; their adopted labradoodle, Thai; and Emily’s service dog, a black Labrador named Bella.
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Reviews for The Patron Saint of Lost Dogs
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I received The Patron Saint of Lost Dogs as a Goodreads giveaway.
Full disclosure, I work in animal shelter and am around veterinarians and veterinary technicians day in and day out. We also are a teaching shelter and have veterinary students milling about daily. The book accurately depicts the quirkiness of the veterinary field. I wish Dr. Lewis, a secondary character, was not as much of a fairy godfather but more fully developed.
The story is about Dr. Cyrus Mills, who after the death of his estranged father (Dr. Bobby Cobb), returned to the small town in Vermont to take over his father's veterinary practice. Mills has a suspended license in North Carolina and is hoping to sell the practice and return to sort out his life.
This book is a quick ready with a few interesting characters (Ginny Weidmeyer and Crystal Haggerty), a budding romance with a waitress, and some good old fashion blackmail. It wraps up nicely with Mills coming to terms with his father and forgiving him.1 person found this helpful
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Book was slow moving for nearly the first third until main character, Cyrus, stopped in for coffee at the town's Diner. Things quickly pick up with illuminating overview of life in a real Vet practice contrasting with his lopsided half-muttered too much information details from Veterinary pathology. Bravery increases as he realizes that Do No Harm means taking control of human lives to protect their pets.Biggest stretch is over dependence on rich bailouts.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Really enjoyed this book. Just finished reading on vacation so I could leave for my mom to read.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Folks who like their humor forged by dark ironies of a narrator's predicament would enjoy this book, which starts out with the narrator- self-absorbed "Cyrus Mills," --being tied up in knots by his grim financial situation, daunting professional problems, and general money-trap housing issues. He has just moved back to his childhood home in Vermont after the death of his father, but the "home" includes the Bedside Manor veterinary practice. The name, "Manor," is part of the irony because he discovers that there was never much maintenance done to the manor. The work of Cyrus Mills is to take the house and the clinic out from under the looming shadow of the bank's foreclosure proceedings, while awaiting his hearing to recover his suspended license to practice veterinary medicine.The funny part of the book is that all these problems are left behind when Cyrus Mills, a.k.a. Cyrus Cobb, develops more affinity for the people who enter his life through the everyday interactions at the clinic, the local diner, and the supermarket. How is everything sorted into a redemptive victory in the end? Well, that's a mystery, and a wonder, and don't read ahead, because the hodge podge of little anecdotes gets all tied up neatly when the last chapter is reached. I, myself, think that a labrador retriever's vomit that contains shreds of red silk boxer shorts is the first sign that things are getting rosier in the Veterinarian's life.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Enjoyable later in the book. It took a while to get to like Cyrus, but once he started opening up the book started moving along. Eden Falls feels somewhat familiar...
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5(Fiction) Cyrus Mills inherits his father’s veterinary practice and returns to his hometown with the intention of selling the business and leaving again. Of course, his patients change his mind.The author graduated from veterinary school at the University of Cambridge, and is a staff surgeon at the prestigious Angell Animal Medical Center in Boston, so the details are authentic.This is articulate, light commercial fiction with a happy ending, and a sequel- if you like this sort of thing. 3 stars
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Patron Saint of Lost Dogs by Nick Trout is the first book in his Cyrus Mills series. It's a sweet book about going home and being forced to face old demons. It's written in first person narrative, so the frustrations and emotions of the main character, Cyrus Mills are easily felt.Some of the characters fell a little flat, almost feeling like a caricature of a person, such as the over-sexed Crystal. My favorite character was Harry Carp. The complete love and devotion between he and his dog Clint was so touching, it makes the whole book worth reading for anyone who loves animals.The book is written in a smooth, easy style to read. Everything takes place within five days, so things keep hopping along. There are no real surprises in the story, and the ending bordered on fairy tale. Still, it's an endearing, enjoyable read.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Patron Saint of Lost Dogs is the story of Dr. Cyrus Mills who is forced to return to his hometown after inheriting his estranged father's veterinary business. Though he is a qualified vet, Cyrus has never practiced, having chosen to focus instead on animal pathology, and he plans to sell The Bedside Manor for Sick Animals and return to Charleston as fast as possible. But Cyrus is shocked to discover the practice is on the verge of bankruptcy and he has just weeks to revive it if he hopes to see any money from it, money he needs to fight a spurious lawsuit he faces back in North Carolina. Reluctantly Cyrus finds himself accepting patients, the first a Golden Retriever named Frieda Fuzzypaws.It's no surprise that the animals and people of Eden Falls, Vermont eventually get under Cyrus's skin. He becomes Frieda's reluctant champion and with the help of Dr. Lewis and a handful of student textbooks finds a cure for Mrs Silverman's husky's skin condition, extracts underwear from the stomach of a Black Labrador and delivers the offspring of a cat, and her young owner. The animals are endearing, their owners quirky and their stories are variously amusing, joyful and heartbreaking.A large part of the story concerns Cyrus's struggle to understand the father he barely knew. Cyrus had never understood his father's devotion to the practice at the expense of his wife and son and he had little contact with him in the decade or more before his death. The estrangement was so fraught Cyrus used his mother's maiden name instead of his father's name to underscore the distance between them. Few recognise him as the prodigal son returned but Cyrus feels the weight of the man's memory.The pace is a little slow, especially given the predictability of the outcome but the writing is solid. Though The Patron Saint of Lost Dogs is not especially compelling, it is a pleasant read and pet lovers in particular should enjoy it.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Heartwarming, funny and charming with lots of dogs. Dr. Cyrus Mills returns to his small hometown in Vermont to takeover the Bedside Manor for Sick Animals, a veterinary clinic that his father had run. Cyrus has been estranged from his father for the past fourteen years, estranged enough to change his name to his mother's maiden name; however his father willed him the practice and home. A practice that is in financial ruin, the exact thing that Cyrus does not need. He has lost his veterinary llicense in South Carolina due to a misunderstanding and needs money to get his license back and now save his father's practice. I don't think I could dislike a book like this, not with a dog named Frieda Fuzzypaws. It was an easy read with sections broken up by the day of the week, since Cyrus has one week to earn the money to pay the bank in order to keep the veterinary practice open. Every day Cyrus is faced with a new issue on top of raising money, a very much alive dog that he was supposed to have euthanized, blackmail, and coming to terms with the failed relationship with his father, to name a few. With whimsical characters, both human and animal alike, I was be enchanted by The Patron Saint of Lost Dogs.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It took a little while to warm up to Cyrus but it was it in the end.