How do you get a horse vetted if it's at the other end of the country?

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Just had a thought... My friend & I are looking at some horses in Yorkshire and I was wondering how do you get a horse vetted if it's at the other end of the country?

Our vet down here wouldn't go (and I couldn't pay for it!!) and how do you know/find a vet at the other end and that it would be a good vetting?

Any thoughts?
 
Ask your vet if they can make a recommendation, get the details of local vets from yellow pages/internet and look at their websites to check that they know something about horses, ring a BHS Welfare rep close to where the horse is, they know most horse vets, ILPH local officer, local Horsewatch contact....

so many ways to find a good vet at the other end of the country
 
I had to do this, twice in fact! Literally go on the internet and search for a vet local to the horse. Ask around too as you can get lucky or unlucky on this, we got very very lucky and the chap we chose (Dover, Kent, we live in West Sussex) really went the extra mile, pardon the pun. DONT get the same vet as the current owner uses although it may come in handy to use someone that used to work at the practice where the horse is registered, as it did in our case as we had been lied to quite badly and the vet went away and did some research for us. (On the second horse though we were not so unlucky and it was a happy ending as he is now mine). Some equine vets have different practices in different locations and your local vet may well know of someone in that area, if they dont, they will know someone that will. But DO BE THERE for the vetting! Good luck and let us know.
 
yep - get a local vet out. I'd ask the current owner who their vet is and then get a different one to go out.
 
Post area horse is in on here, ask for vet reccomendations, if you cant be there, ask a member who 'looks' like they know what they are doing to supervise in return for a box of chocolates and lots of thanks, then if passes, go and see the horse, ride it, and buy it.

Simple!

This forum is very handy!
 
I love this forum!! Thank you but am concerned about going up for the vetting and then having to bring it back down - it's a long way in a box!! I guess I'll have to wait and see, I am a little worried his right foot is slightly splayed out but am not sure if it is picture or horse!
 
I had a vet do a horse I was interested in and it was the horse's own vet. It worked greatly in my favour because it means they have to open up all previous records for the buyer! Which they did, and the vendors were happy for them to do so, they were not lying and the vets were all above board and really legitimate, in case of legislation you see.

Sadly he failed and we didn't have him.

Also i would visit a horse twice, but not necessarily try to be there for the vetting if it cannot be arranged that way.
 
What i done with one of mine is look on Google for vets in that area, then give them a call to arange a vetting...easy as that. They can call you after the vetting and fax/post you the report..
 
Monty was about 30ish miles away and my vet was going to charge £104 just to travel so as much as I would of liked him to vet Monty, he could'nt!
Instead he did suggest the vets just down the road from Monty, they were Monty's practice
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but they were also very professional.
 
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I love this forum!! Thank you but am concerned about going up for the vetting and then having to bring it back down - it's a long way in a box!! I guess I'll have to wait and see, I am a little worried his right foot is slightly splayed out but am not sure if it is picture or horse!

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It may just be they way you wrote this but it reads as though you have not seen the horse!
 
No I haven't seen it yet, in fact we're going to look at about 8 whilst we are up there so just sort of pre-empting myself really. I like this one but I am going to be really good and keep an open mind!
 
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