Animal instinct: Giving animals a 'fair deal' is how Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick wants to be remembered

Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick is a superhero to his legion of fans. But he tells Caroline O’Doherty he’s just a normal man who hopes his legacy will be that he gave animals a ‘fair deal’

Noel Fitzpatrick is sitting on the edge of his seat upstairs in Easons after a book-signing, head in his hands, beating himself up because he didn’t give enough time to a woman whose beloved King Charles spaniel, Lulu, died suddenly last Saturday. “Sometimes I don’t hear what people say to me until after they’ve said it because they move along so quickly,” he says into his palms.