Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick has claimed fans of his TV shows approach him to perform operations on them but he’s forced to turn them down so he doesn’t lose his licence
Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick has revealed how people come up to him and ask him to operate on them.
The 57-year-old, who stars in The Bionic Vet and The Supervet, said that folk were so impressed with his surgery on animals they want him to ‘do them’.
He said: “This week I’ve done brain surgery, spinal surgery, elbow surgery, knee surgery and a fracture that took 14 hours to fix. By the end, everything ached. People say ‘I’ve got a knee problem, a back problem. Can you operate on me?” If I did, I’d lose my licence.”
He also said that animals like watching tennis on TV – and that dogs like jazz and opera, but not heavy metal.
“We often put on the radio and television for the animals. They like the tennis because it’s repetitive. Dogs like to watch other dogs or horses. They prefer jazz or opera. They don’t like heavy metal, like I do.”
He also said he reckoned we’d be able to ‘speak’ to animals – including our pets – just like Doctor Dolittle by 2045.
Noel, who has two hospitals specialising in neurosurgery and orthopaedics, and another specialising in oncology and soft tissue surgery, is also the director of a number of biotech companies.
Biotech uses living organisms to create tech, with ‘translation’ between animals and humans just one example. Speaking about the future, Noel said: “Just because animals speak in a language that we can’t understand, it doesn’t mean they can’t communicate.
“I think in the next couple of decades we’ll be able translate the language of dolphins, elephants and even down to the humble bee.”
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Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
