Here are 17 pictures from vets hard at work across the Doncaster.
Who can you spot in these retro photos which go back to 1996?
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1. Waiting for the vet
Waiting for the vet at the new PDSA centre, Newhall Road, Sheffield back in 1998 Photo: Stuart Hastings
2. Big kisses
First animal hospital opened in 2000 thanks to Pension fund - Entrepreneur and vet, Peter Eville, treats Baggins the 18month old Rottweiller in Sheffield New Animal Hospital and Andy Bowden, senior management at Lloyds TSB Commercial kept a safe distance. Photo: Submitted
3. Student vet
Catherine Henstridge with one of her horses. She was a student vet in 2001 who was off to Kenya to study grazing animals. Photo: Glenn Ashley (for Star)
4. Meet the annimals
Demi Oxley and Kyle Thompson of Mintini Primary school pictured with Springfield Vet William Taylor and a snake at the Ecclesfield Library in 2001 Photo: Barry Richardson (Staff)