Celebrity vet offers work insights

Many people love animals. But while working with them, especially sick ones, can be rewarding, it can also be exhausting, stressful and fraught with misunderstanding.

Type any pet clinic's name into a Chinese online search engine and the most frequently related topics that appear are "Is it a trap?", "Does it overcharge?" or "Is the vet reliable?"

Zhang Xu, a celebrity vet with more than 1 million followers on social media who operates his own clinic in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, offered some insights into the life of a vet.