Wild in the CountryChapter 17
Not wanting to abandon Tanya and yielding to the girl's insistence on staying with her, Desirée took her friend with her to the appointment with Dr. Hemmings. Leaving Tanya in the waiting room, the blonde, younger girl went in to face Hemmings and a man he introduced as a specialist on animal-transmitted diseases, Dr. Alex Braun, who mentioned a list of maladies including rabies, distemper, schistosomiasis, tuberculosis, and canine brucellosis. Desirée had heard of some of...