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Yes it is partly for safety reasons as if the animal moves & panics mid stitch if conscious then yep there is the risk of vet stabbing...

Yes this is partly why I won’t bother spraying, still need to remove after as they remain toxic for 8 months in forage. It seems the...

Ah interesting. I had them felled in the early autumn I think, early in the year I tried just getting overhanging branches lopped off...

I’m really hoping that I won’t get an explosion but I’m so worried I might. Maybe I should leave it another two weeks and do my daily...

Hello. Last year I had a cluster of sycamores removed from the field, annoyingly after lots of seeds had dropped. I spent a few days...

I have the same situation so I’ve just Daisy chained a load of hoses to make a long one, goes like 300m! Works great. When there is a...

I have to say that H’s care was not in any way impacted by the CVS problem it dealt with the urgency it merited and no delays where...

I am at an IVC practice, competitor to CVS (I don’t care about that but just to give you an idea of the company sizes). For a period of...

This, many times over! @Redders, your posts are fascinating and give me a view of vet practice that I'd never really appreciated. I...

the places I have been have never done this, and I wouldn’t like it if they did. I hate people ringing me to try to sell me stuff! Edit...

I understand why practices do them, it bonds people to a practice, it does spread the cost of routine care and enables discounts - I...

The thing with corporate ownership, and it is a tricky thing. Is that someone has to own a practice that can employ the vet teams that...

our vets are fabulous, the oldest one is treasure of knowledge and experience and so kind to me, at one time he would look around...

Thank you

I'd have you as my vet any day of the week Redders. Every word you've written on this thread says what a great vet you are. I'd also...