History Main / KindlyVet

* Averted with Doctor Applecheeks from ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheMovie'', who not only kidnaps animals, tortures them, and sells them for money, but also has a tendency to stalk ice cream trucks as well.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Luz’s mother Camila works as a veterinarian. In “Yesterday’s Lie”, we see her kindness and empathy in action as she releases animals from traps; when she learns that a basilisk has been impersonating her daughter for months, she winds up adopting her as her own.

** Siegfried Farnon, James' bombastic, eccentric mentor, also qualifies handily; he is NotGoodWithPeople, but with animals he is ''amazing''. It's truly remarkable to watch him go from snapping at some unfortunate client (or employee, or [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Tristan]]) who has made him cross to gently soothing and treating an animal in pain, often within mere seconds.

* Long before Dr. Pol, the Animal Planet series ''Emergency Vets'' (1998–2002), about a UsefulNotes/{{Denver}} veterinary hospital, featured a bunch of these, and is likely responsible for a lot of young people choosing to enter the veterinary field.

* ''Literature/TheThreeainvestigators'': Mary, the live-in vet at the ranch where ''The Blazing Cliffs'' takes place, is very thorough in taking care of sick horses, "babies" them even when they aren't sick and is the only person who can appraoch the meanest horse on the ranch. Unusually for the trope, she isn't a certified veterinarian but is studying to be one, with her plans [[spoiler:being put on hold when she is arrested as an accomplice to the book's ConMan villain]].

While humans have to deal with DrJerk and suffer under the DepravedDentist, animals are often much luckier. When the beloved TeamPet gets ill or [[KickTheDog kicked]], his owners will waste no time getting him to a veterinarian who will go the extra mile to make sure that [[AndYourLittleDogToo your little dog]] comes out A-okay. When not a FriendToAllLivingThings, even a vet cast as frightening ([[HumansAreCthulhu usually from the animal's point of view]]) turns out [[CruelToBeKind to be just doing his job]]. In other times, animals in fiction have this uncanny ability to understand that this human is trying to help them, not that they appreciate getting shots in any case.

* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': In “The Coffee Shop,” Penny takes over her recently retired family veterinarian's practice, jokingly referring to herself as “Dr. Penny, Frontier Animal Medicine Woman.” Inverted by the uncle of one of Jack's construction job colleagues in "The Survivor," who is willing to perform any kind of animal surgery for the right price, including declaw Mittens.

* Many ''Creator/DickFrancis'' books have one. ''Comeback'' follows a whole firm of this but also zigzags the trope (one partner is an ambitious and judgmental {{Jerkass}} and the boss, who seems to be the kindliest of them all, has actually been murdering heroes -and any humans who discover what he's up to- as part of an InsuranceFraud]]).

* Th exceptionally handsome Ted on ''Series/SchittsCreek'' is a comically kind and empathetic veterinarian, who is seen giving rescue dogs a pep talk before an adoption event and volunteering at the Senior Center. Initially portrayed as "too nice" for Alexis, she later realizes her error and sets about winning Ted back after breaking his heart twice.

* Subverted with Seishiro Sakurazuka in CLAMP's ''Manga/TokyoBabylon'', who is a ruthless assassin under the kindly vet façade.

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* A regular fixture on Australian tv these days. Dr. Harry Cooper is perhaps the best-known, having appeared in numerous lifestyle shows over the years and his own series, ''Harry's Practice''. Fellow tv vets Katrina Warren (now a presenter on Creator/AnimalPlanet) and Chris Brown (''Series/BondiVet'') got their start in television with Dr. Harry.
* ''The Incredible Dr.Pol'' on Creator/NatGeoWild channel in the US. He runs a mixed animal practice up in the state of Michigan. (Do not bring him up with anyone who works in the veterinary industry. He is controversial, to say the least.)

** Siegfried Farnon, James' bombastic, eccentric mentor, also qualifies handily; he is NotGoodWithPeople, but with animals he is ''amazing''. It's truly remarkable to watch him go from snapping at some unfortunate client (or employee) who has made him cross to gently soothing and treating an animal in pain, often within mere seconds.

* In ''Manga/DetectiveConan'', Ran suspects her mother of infidelity and tails her as she meets with a handsome-looking man; Conan deduces that he's a vet and shouts this out moments before Ran opens a can of whoopass on him.

* In ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode [[Recap/TheXFilesS06E15Arcadia Arcadia]], the only genuinely sane and nice resident of the subdivision Mulder and Scully are investigating is Big Mike, a veterinarian.

* A regular fixture on Australian tv these days. Dr. Harry Cooper is perhaps the best-known, having appeared in numerous lifestyle shows over the years and his own series, ''Harry's Practice''. Fellow tv vets Katrina Warren (now a presenter on Creator/AnimalPlanet) and Chris Brown (''Bondi Vet'') got their start in television with Dr. Harry.

* There's a kindly vet in ''Georgia Rule'', too. So kindly, he's the only one who can resist sleeping with Lindsay Lohan. It makes sense in context. Sorta.

* In ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'', [[BigBad Dr. Robotnik]]'s MirrorUniverse counterpart, Dr. Ivo Kintobor, is a kind-hearted, pacifistic medical doctor who runs a veterinarian clinic to look after the victims of the [[ThePsychoRangers Suppression Squad]].

* Many ''Creator/DickFrancis'' books have one. ''Comeback'' follows a whole firm of this but also zigzags the trope (one partner is an ambitious and judgmental {{Jerkass}} and the boss, who seems to be the kindliest of them all, has actually been murdering heroes -and any humans who discover what he's up to- as part of an InsuranceScam]]).