Since that time, she has worked in small animal practice, treating dogs, cats and what are known in the trade as ‘small furries’ (rabbits, guinea pigs, other rodents and even the occasional hedgehog and sugar glider). As a professional who has treated a large number of very different types of animal, Kate is convinced that the complex interplay of biochemical, physiological, anatomical and neurological forces that enable life from conception to adulthood and ultimately death could not possibly have arisen by chance.