A day in the life of

A Day in the Life of Dr Todd Field

Your four-legged friend may not love a trip to the vet, but veterinarian Todd Field and the dedicated team at Richmond Town and Country Vet certainly make sure they’re in safe hands. Todd shares with us what he gets up to in a day as a small animal vet.

6.00am

Our youngest kids Louis and Georgia come to check if it is ‘up time’ yet. My wife Kate manages to convince them to go back to bed, every minute of sleep counts.

6.15am

Alarm goes off, snooze it once before getting up to have a shower. Georgia and Louis manage to organise their own breakfasts while I make some toast and a coffee. Then we make the dreaded school lunches, which are usually a team effort in our house.

7.15am

Head into work. Lower Queen Street isn’t clogged today so get to work a little earlier to do some research and catch up on notes.

8.00am

8.15am

Team huddle to make sure we are aware of what is on that day and what everyone will be doing. A great chance for us all to say hi as our team changes face day-to-day.

The awesome nurse crew admit the surgical patients for the morning, we check them over to make sure they are healthy, and surgery can go ahead as planned. Each patient has their own anaesthetic, nursing and surgical plan checked.

8.45am

The order of the day is planned. Fixing an ACL/cruciate ligament is first up. We get Ted the labrador to sleep and then spend the next couple of hours operating on his shin bone and realign everything with a plate and screws.

10.45am

Grab a quick coffee before the team have a beautiful one-year-old boxer all prepped and ready for her spay.

11.30am

Next up is Beau, a pug that is in for his castration and surgery to open up his airway. Pugs are all personality, and this guy is no different. Waking up from airway surgery can be stressful so Beau has a small team watching him very closely – he wakes up like a champ!

1.00pm

Time for a lunch break today. Often we miss out on lunch. We have a big team, so getting a chance to catch up is great.

1.30pm

A quick chance to call clients and give updates on their pets, let them know lab results and answer questions.

2.00pm

Consults start for the afternoon – we see a huge range of pets with lots of different health issues. The afternoon rushes by with skin problems, vaccinations, sore legs and red eyes.

6.00pm

This is catch-up time where we can finish phone calls, notes, plan bookings and surgery slots over the next few days.

7.30pm

Home to see Kate and the kids. The hectic time of the day where Kate has far more skills at corralling the kids towards bed. Dinner and then story time for Georgia and Louis. Ems our oldest, reads Morrigan Crow to us.

8.30pm

Relax and catch up with Kate, often case study fits in here but not tonight.

10.00pm

Sleep time!

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with Sealord CEO, Doug Paulin Sealord is one of Nelson’s largest companies, dishing up delicious fish for families all over the world. Its CEO Doug Paulin sits down with Nelson Magazine to talk about the company and what’s next for it.

What makes Sealord a unique company to have based in the Nelson Tasman region?

Sealord is one of the largest companies in the Southern Hemisphere and New Zealand’s biggest deep sea fishing enterprise. Ninety percent of our catch is exported to forty different countries so it’s a significant company to be based in Nelson, especially considering that many of our twelve hundred and forty staff work here. The ownership structure is also pretty special - an equal partnership by Māori owned fishing company Moana and global Japanese seafood company Nissui Corporation (Nissui). Both have an inter-generational approach to business; ensuring consideration of the present and the future, particularly in relation to the environment and people.

What are the big challenges facing your company?

Like all other primary industries, we are grappling with major challenges thanks to Covid. Balancing the prices we are able to get for our products against rising costs, notably fuel, and dealing with a huge labour shortage. Normally we would be employing four hundred seasonal workers but those people aren’t available now and our onshore factories will be making a considerable loss as a result. Another challenge is meeting our responsibilities as far as carbon management and the environment go. Our customers the world over are becoming just as conscious as we are about how important it is to create a sustainable future and we are continuing to evolve our business to contribute to the positive and forward-thinking changes that are needed. One example is bottom trawling, with much misinformation from some quarters about the practice. Many people are unaware that only 1.1 percent of the EEZ is trawled each year to produce 700 million servings of healthy seafood. Regardless, at Sealord we’re focussed on the environment and looking at better ways of doing things. I have proposed an ambitious plan for Sealord and the deep water fishing industry to increase formal protection of seamounts (underwater mountains) by closing 89% of them to fishing (up from 50%), balancing the need for conservation and ongoing sustainable food production.

Can you describe the culture at Sealord?

Sealord has a very special culture. Although we are a commercial organisation, we are also a close-knit community imbued with whānau (family) values. Many staff have been here a long time – 140 have worked for us for more than ten years and 95 have been here more than 20 years. We work hard to make sure that there is a positive culture, so people feel valued and able to contribute and share their ideas. That has paid off during Covid where people have really pulled together to help the company continue to operate productively.

What does the next ten years for the company bring?

We need to continue to develop innovative ways of operating the business while supporting our people and making sure that the company is sustainable long into the future. The next few years will be tough, but Sealord is a company in very good heart.