text: Nicki Miller grew up with a menagerie of ponies, cats, dogs, rabbits, gerbils and guinea-pigs, duly qualifying as a Veterinary Surgeon from Cambridge in 1986 and spending the years since happily and gainfully employed as a small animal practitioner. She writes; “In recent years, I have come to realise that many of my patients are returning time after time for ever more powerful suppressive treatments. Having seen my mother cured at the Bristol Homoeopathic Hospital (one of the few in the UK), I have always known homoeopathy to be a powerful and effective system of medicine. As a consequence, I enrolled with the College in 2011, and am currently in my second year. Hermione was my own dog, one of many I have owned as an adult.