And what was it like?
I guess it is a bit of luck, a bit of who you know, and a lot of being willing to have a go.
I had already spent over a decade broadcasting my own radio show every week on Mid Downs Radio, the hospital radio station at the Princess Royal hospital in Haywards Heath.
I work with Dr Marc Abraham OBE, who has a great deal more media experience than I do.
He is responsible for three of the biggest pet welfare government e-petitions of all time. So when the press want a vet to talk to about animal welfare, they call him.
But when they need a comment about running a vet business, he passes those journalists on to me.
It is terrifying to get just a few hours’ notice that you are going to be live on national TV, especially when they request you meet with them at your work place at 6.30am.
But I am grateful to have been given the chance to put forward what I hoped would be the voice of sense in a balanced discussion.
So, what was it like?
My cortisone levels must have been on very high alert as I took bookings from BBC Radio Surrey and Sussex, ITV News, Sky TV News, Talk TV and BBC Radio Scotland over the space of just a few hours. I had to think fast, and manage my diary so that each interview did not clash.
I hate early mornings and I don’t usually wear make-up, so that is a bad start, but at 6.30am the next morning I was at work. The first interview was well rehearsed and seemed to go well. The others went by as a blur, with me being given less and less time to express myself culminating in the ridiculous request to “keep it to ten seconds”.
I just hope that I did not let all the other thousands of vets in the country down.
