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make a vet walk :D

I feel very guilty that I am going to ask the vet to walk across to vaccinate Clover in her field, rather than fight with her to get her in. Usually I'd bring her in, but she's been a little fresh lately and I'm a little less quick on my feet lately (joys of pregnancy!)

So do you feel bad for making your vet walk? I certainly do! :o
 
Nope, ocassionally I let vet students run my horse up for me (as my practise has a lot of them, being a vet school) as I have a gammy leg and she goes at some lick once in motion! I'd never suggest it but it's quite often offered, and who am I to say no?! :D

I'm sure they'll understand. In the summer or on nice days my vets seem quite glad of an excuse to be out in the sun anyway.
 
I'm sure he'll understand. My lovely vet spent a few visits in the field with my new, impossible to catch horse. He vaccinated her there and on one visit assessed her soundness as she helpfully lunged herself around us, even changing directions when asked.

Of course, he might mind a little if its a half hour walk.:D
 
Breathe.... breathe....breathe...

:mad:

A familiar young vet arrived to vaccinate the horse, as she has done before in her field. The moment I said she was out in the field she started stropping.
"Oh out in the field is she" HUFF
"Yeah sorry but I'm 19 weeks pregnant and she's fresh as is off due to injury..blah blah blah"
"Well how long is it going to take, I've another call to go to"
"Uhm, as long as it takes to walk there?"
"Well have you got a headcollar because I haven't got time to muck around"
"There's one over there"
"Have you even got a stable to put her in, because I really haven't got time to be walking over to do her"

And at that point I blew my lid ( we were half way to the horse and she'd moaned the entire way! This is a 20-something young lady, not some old hag who can't walk!!! And if I can make it over there...?:confused:

I told her to stick the vaccinations.
"Oh well I can do it I'm just saying"
"Nah you can leave it, I wouldn't like to put you out"

Passed her the passport to cross out and told her to leave. Am in the process of firing off a complaint email to practise manager and just had to stop mid way because I'm so angry....
 
Hmm she sounds professional! :rolleyes:

So if there had been a complication, or it was a nervous horse that needed time and patience she couldn't have done it either?

I think given your condition (you'll hear that a lot :p) she could have kept her huffiness to herself and just got on with it. It wouldn't have pushed her next appointment back too far surely? Or maybe she was already running late :D
 
Well exactly, I wonder exactly how much time they'd pencilled in to do her? And this vet has done her out in the field before - so she knew what to expect!

I should have gone over, got the horse and handed her the snorting, cavorting16.2hh beast and said there you go, try and get a needle in that. And left her to it.

I felt bad asking them to walk, but thought under the circumstances it was understandable? Obviously not, this whole walking lark is above and beyond for a vet, yknow.
 
When the vet came to vaccinate mine I said, he's out in the other field (about 1/4 mile away), would you like me to run you up there in the car? No, she said, let's walk.

Maybe your stroppy vet was a bit hormonal?
 
I wonder what she says to clients who don't have stabling and horses that live out all year? When I look at the facilities yards have nowadays compared to years ago with solariums and the like, I think we've gone soft! (not that I would say no to hot running water, solarium, wash room etc.)
 
I left my last vets as they came to inject my 12h welsh A when I had just had a shoulder op and had no power whatsoever im my arm. The vet watched me struggle to put her headcollar on with one arm and my teeth, without offering to help, then when I asked her if she could turn it out in the field 5metres away she refused saying she wasn't insured for that. I could have understood if it was a firebreathing 17h creature but this was a teddy bear of a pony that you could pick up if need be! That was the last time I ever used that vets. My current vets are more old fashioned and sensible!
 
I always make my vet walk AND climb over the stile!

My vet's lovely though. Yesterday she came out to give all of mine their boosters and then did an impromptu dental check and rasp on two of them.

Yours sounds like my old vet. There is a reason why he is my old vet and that's because I didn't like his attitude. When I am paying for a service I expect it to be on my terms, and if that means the vet clambering across a stile to see a horse then so be it. It's not as if you were asking her to wade through a bog or cross a river.

I'm preggers and I am due in a month. My vet kept telling me to be careful the whole time she was here.
 
Tbh yes I would feel bad.

To my mind if I make an appointment for any professional to come and see my horse, I have it there,clean and ready!

She sounds a right silly moo though!
 
She does sound like she was having an off day, but ditto Persephone above, I always get mine in, and they will darn well behave for the vet (although different for you if you're pregnant :) ) In fact, if he's early I run around like a headless chicken getting them in!

We did inconvienience him one sunday when our pony was VERY lame, he had a little whinge on the phone about the cricket being on :rolleyes: But when he saw the pony he realised we hadn't called him out for something trivial - we're far too northern to waste money! Still he's forgiven as he's been our vet for years, and has commented in the past on how well behaved they all are :)
 
Persephone said:
Tbh yes I would feel bad.

To my mind if I make an appointment for any professional to come and see my horse, I have it there,clean and ready!

She sounds a right silly moo though!
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I do agree with this in principle but sometimes compromise is needed. If the vet was busy and just thought the owner couldn't be bothered, maybe they're entitled to say, I really don't have time today, but a constant drip of moaning isn't going to change anything except make both parties feel negative.

In my case, my vet agreed it was better to jab her in the field as at that time she would have fought him in the stable or bounced across the yard.
That small investment in giving a couple of minutes extra meant the job got done quicker and now the horse adores him.
 
surely if you train to be a bleddy vet , then at some time or other you're going to have to attend to animals out in the field??? she sounds like a div so i wouldn't hesitate to ditch her....one of ours was lame and our vet was more than happy to do the walk out to field , ours live out but we've got stables they can be brought to if ness , but not when hopping lame....
 
suestowford said:
When the vet came to vaccinate mine I said, he's out in the other field (about 1/4 mile away), would you like me to run you up there in the car? No, she said, let's walk.

Maybe your stroppy vet was a bit hormonal?
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she had obviously been to my friends before you who managed to get herself, and the vet stuck in their 4x4 in a big dip in the field while driving back from checking a horse! :D
 
Usually my horses are always in ready p, in fact the farrier is always haPpy because I have everything ready for him! But in this instance I would expect a little give and take. Especially because I'm paying for the privilege!
 
Perish the thought should your vet actually have to WALK across a field. Being a vet out an call and all that, I bet she didn't expect to be walking across a field now and again. Poor lady :D
 
And I told her she could bring the car in!
Normally I get pushed around, but I'm so peeved with people taking the mick lately that she just lit the touch paper and up I went!
 
What would she do if it were a sheep that was lambing out? Etc. etc. etc.

My vet would be trotting along beside me talking about the horses, the weather, the..., in short, having a good conversation and getting an already dedicated customer even more on her side :D

I wouldn't fire off an angry email though m'duck, unless you want to leave the practice (they can be funny things), but definitely let them know that you were surprised by a) her lack of interest in getting to the horse, and b) her constant statement of the fact that she wasn't impressed :cool:
 
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