Recent content by Redders

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 only way is hand pull or cut and bale and discard/bag and discard!

Ah interesting. I had them felled in the early autumn I think, early in the year I tried just getting overhanging branches lopped off but I could see it wasn’t working so the tree surgeon came back to fell them, annoyingly after some really heavy winds and I could see the seeds falling as I...

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 monitoring. The annoying thing is, I have my ride on mower that I can use, but not if the grass gets really long, if it gets really long I’ll pay to too and bale...

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 using a leaf sucker to get as many seeds as possible. For the last few weeks I have gone through the paddock, and pulling up what I see, and twice, the last time...

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 freeze I fill up rolling water buckets, wrap them in an old rug, then siphon the water in rather than lift them

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 11 (I think) days, we had no IT. Only got it back at the start of this week. No internet. No phones except one single analogue phone. We shared four laptops...

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 to say I’m sure some places do do it, probably some marketing drive, drum up new clients, or when people’s plan expire to ask if they want to continue it. I...

I understand why practices do them, it bonds people to a practice, it does spread the cost of routine care and enables discounts - I like them for that but it’s had the effect of the owners wanting everything that could be included to be included because it’s included if that makes sense, even...

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 people can take pets to, and very few people are in a position to buy/rent not only a suitable premises, but also the basic kit needed to run it, not talking...

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I’m going to apply some of the feedback from this thread to help interactions but also just accept that some people will react that way regardless of how well I present things. People are upset, worried, scared, some feel guilty for whatever reason, and I’m the immediate person to react to. I...

Thank you to those who have said how being asked about money made them feel and how they may prefer it to be broached x

Some insurance policies for small animals state they won’t cover things if not treated within x amount of time of problem noted, which is another reason we ask. It’s never been my first question, ever, and never will be. I can appreciate why people may perceive it negatively, I guess I just...

That’s exactly how consent for a procedure should be done, discussing pros cons risks benefits, costs etc, as above SO1, it should be a two way conversation as yours was. I won’t do a procedure unless an owner understands all of the above. We have extra forms with our consent forms and sheets we...

We are still like it, but the opportunities to do it don’t present themselves as often as they used to sadly! For this particular one, it was a very small bit that I could sort, but the majority of similar presentations require likely oral surgery and thus more time so more charge (years ago a...