The Vet’s Apprentice by David Basinski

After graduating from high school with the Illinois State Representative scholarship, the author attended U. of Ill. at Champaign for two and a half years before transferring to Tuskegee Institute, in Alabama. While there, he represented the school in rodeo and the National Dairy Tasting Competition. During the summers between semesters, he worked on a Wyoming cattle ranch, and tested livestock throughout Oregon with the Federal Animal Disease Laboratory. He received a diploma from the American Motorcycle Mechanics School. Upon graduation with a bachelor’s degree in Animal Science, he spent a year learning Polish in Krakow before being admitted to the School of Veterinary Medicine in Wroclaw, Poland.
The author, now retired, jogs with his dogs, rides a Honda Niner along the shores of Lake Michigan, and plays pickleball while imagining Luna and Kai’s next adventure. He lives in Chicagoland with his wife, Dia, and dogs, Theo and Savy.
This is his first book.