Ever get a vet you just don’t click with?

[Lintel]

Oh hell yes. But on a happy note a new vet joined our practice last year and she is LOVELY. So much so I asked for her again - previously never done!
Sorry to hear you had such a naf time, some folks are too big for their own boots!

 

[mytwofriends]

Vet came out to sign off my friend’s horse who’d been lame. Not a long visit and she was done in 10 minutes. We left them chatting and the YM and I went up to poo pick the paddocks in the quad bike. YM’s phone rang a few minutes later, and it was the practice asking if the vet was still with us. There’d been an emergency nearby with a horse getting stuck trying to jump a 5 bar gate. YM zoomed down to the yard to alert her, then came back to me and we finished poo picking (4 large paddocks.)

We were a good 30 minutes, maybe more, and imagine our astonishment and horror to find the vet still on the yard chatting. Just leaving, she said, when YM reminded her about the emergency.

That was one of many issues. I avoided her like the plague.

 

[poiuytrewq]

hope you put in a major complaint in about her-I have known vets judge and not be impartial,
irrespective of what they would do-we pay their wages!

Not personally, I was a bit messed up by the whole thing. I'd had the horse back off loan as I wanted to be with him and ensure his end was happy (totally f'd that up) but my partner did.
Apparently she was newly qualified, it was her first colic/pts and she just couldn't handle it.
They cleared my bill then accidentally invoiced me the following month....
The vet who came after her was absolutely fantastic but it was too late really by then. Awful awful day that still gets me teary and I'm pretty tough when it comes to horses being pts

 

[Christmas Crumpet]

OP have you stopped to think that you are feeling this way because the vet was absolutely right and that actually what you are feeling is embarrassed?

What a horrible thing to say. Casey - I think your vet sounds like a total twit.

It just goes to show how uneducated people can be - being an owner of a suspected PSSM horse I totally understand where Casey is coming from and the problems she goes through to keep her horse right. My vets (although they are utterly lovely) are pretty ignorant about PSSM because its not something they deal with on a regular basis. I will say hand on heart that I know considerably more than they do about it. I don't tell them all the weird and wonderful things I do/feed my horse to keep him right but I know what I do works and it has been a process of trial and error for the last 3 years.

However, my vets are fab and they listen to what I have to say when I ring them with a problem. They say at the end of the day, I deal with my horse every day and know what's normal and whats not for him which is more than they do.

 

[LaurenBay]

I have been lucky with my vets.

4 friends have all had problems with 1 vet though, she is no longer a vet and has now set up a completely different equine company!

Friend 1 - Called vet out for colic, Horse was being walked in menage (fully lit) til vet got there. Was thrashing around a bit. Vet got there and told friend to take Horse to stable, que my poo friend being squished against the walls when Horse rolled. Vet said 100% PTS as Horse would never recover and would not make it to Horsepital for surgery. Friend begged to be refereed for surgery, loaded Horse. Colic had cleared itself by time she got half way there.

Friend 2 - Horse had persistent cough, vet said Horse was allergic to hay, then to haylage, then to feed and finally to bedding and grass. She told friend to have Horse PTS as it was allergic to everything. Friend had Horse PTS and after decided to have a PM done, it showed enlarged heart, the person carrying out the PM said he doubted very much Horse was allergic to anything.

Friend 3 - Horse had lameness issues, vet came and couldn't find what was wrong, friend was told to ride the Horse hard for 2 weeks so the lameness showed up more. Friend got a second opinion and referred to Horsepital and found out Horse had KS.

Friend 4 - Didn't turn up to an emergency call out as she has seen the Horse 2 days earlier and said Horse would be fine. She eventually turned up 2 hours later once the Horse had already died (after collapsing and dragging himself on the floor) Turns out Horse had a ruptured intestine.