Before I write about my way from vet to journalist, I would like to make clear that neither my love for animals nor my admiration for James Herriot was the reason why I became a vet. When I was a kid, I dreamt, like many little girls, of being a vet because I loved animals and wanted to save them all. But I realised early on that loving animals only seems to be a strong motivation to study veterinary medicine at first glance, and it is not really a good reason to do so.