Is cellulitis an emergency?

EKW said:
I'm changing from the vets we both use kamikaze. They have become a joke. The good vets have gone. The chief vet is an up his own backside obnoxious doom and gloom person but the only decent vet. The rest are incompetent.

One came out to microchip the foal and do the stallions licence. She threw away the microchip stickers with the number on that I needed for the ponies registration so she had to go bin raiding. And as for the stallions licence - 2 visits later and she still couldn't follow a check list on a piece of paper!

I hope your horse gets over this and your complaint is taken seriously!
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The problem is that I have just changed from that vet to a different vet that I used to use! This is the new vets causing an issue. I don’t really want to change back. I have emailed my complaint and await a reply as to what I do now.
 
Goldenstar said:
I hope they take your complaint seriously
I think vets have to attend at the request of a registered client I be would get on the RCVS website and take a look .
I would be incandescent with anger .
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this. the RCVS need to know about the vet not attending. disciplinary action is needed.
 
Downton Dame said:
^^^
this. the RCVS need to know about the vet not attending. disciplinary action is needed.
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The RCVS wont give a toss, they are not interested in anything like that. I lost a horse with cellulitis (which vet wrongly diagnosed as an arthritic hock then said she had an infection in her leg which was going to burst out but didnt need antibiotics, even on six bute a day horse was on three legs, eventually got emergency vet out on a Sat night and he gave antibiotics, it was too late her tendon had contracted and then even on antibiotics after three weeks the infection got worse so she was pts) and complained about that and about problems with another horse (Silverfire) and about none of my horses having treatment history notes from a RCVS approved practice, and the RCVS were not interested. The only thing they are interested in is non vets doing vet work. I complained to the vet practice about both horses, vet practice that I had used for 25 years for over 100 different horses and this was first complaint I ever made. They ignored my complaint then eventually sent a letter saying they would no longer treat my horses - I had already changed vets anyway. Vets can do what they want, say what they want and charge what they want...
 
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My old boy developed cellulitis, his hock was a little swollen when I called the vet, she came in 30 minutes by which time the horse was down in the stable with an elephant leg and I nearly lost him. Absolutely horrible and so painful for him.
 
Thankfully he is improving already. I expect leg will
Go up again overnight but at least down a bit in the day. I have emailed a complaint to the vets too as I don’t feel my phone call was taken seriously.
 
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