Zoo Vet at Large is a television series following the work of zoo vet Matt Brash at Flamingo Land

Flamingo Land Theme Park and Zoo

Flamingo Land is a theme park and resort located in North Yorkshire, England. It attracts about 1.8 million visitors per year. Flamingo Land is also the 12th most visited theme park in Europe.Some of the major attractions at Flamingo Land include:...

 in North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire is a non-metropolitan or shire county located in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England, and a ceremonial county primarily in that region but partly in North East England. Created in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972 it covers an area of , making it the largest...

. The programme originated from Yorkshire Television

Yorkshire Television

Yorkshire Television, now officially known as ITV Yorkshire and sometimes unofficially abbreviated to YTV, is a British television broadcaster and the contractor for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV network...

 and is also shown world wide on channels such as Sky Travel

Sky Travel

Sky Real Lives was an in-house channel from BSkyB that showed extensive programmes about travel, adverts for travel agencies and documentaries. The channels closed on 19 August 2010.-History:...

 and the Danish channel Viasat

Viasat

Viasat is a DBS distributor and TV broadcaster, owned by the Swedish media conglomerate Modern Times Group. Broadcasting from London, the target markets are in the Nordic and the Baltic Countries...

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Matt Brash has been called the James Herriot

James Herriot

James Herriot was the pen name of James Alfred Wight, OBE, FRCVS also known as Alf Wight , an English veterinary surgeon and writer, who used his many years of experiences as a veterinarian to write a series of books of stories about animals and their owners...

 of the 21st century. His veterinary home is currently in the village of Stamford Bridge

Stamford Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire

Stamford Bridge is a village and civil parish on the River Derwent in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, approximately east of York.-Location and history:The village sits astride an ancient ford on the River Derwent....

 but was formally in the town of Pocklington

Pocklington

Pocklington is a small market town and civil parish situated at the foot of the Yorkshire Wolds in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, approximately east of York....

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Zoo Vet

Zoo Vet is the first book by Matt Brash, published in 2007.

"Good day at the office, dear?" is a particularly loaded question when asked of Matt Brash. A typical day at the office could include escaping from angry polar bears, dodging poo hurled by grumpy chimpanzees and avoiding massive loss of blood at the teeth of vindictive hamsters. A light-hearted and colourful journey through Matt's life and work with weird and wonderful exotic animals, from tarantulas to tapirs, birds to bears, brothel madams to motorbikers!