Recommendations for an Equine Vet for Pre Purchase Examination in Torlundy, Fort William, Scotland please?

[Fifty Bales of Hay]

As in the title please can anyone recommend a good equine vet to do a vetting, in Torlundy, Fort William, Scotland?

The owners have used Crown Vets, so I'm not able to use them.

Any others preferably not too far away, although I know it's Scotland so they might be few and far between!

Thanks.

 

[Caol Ila]

You may have to see if there is anyone near Inverness willing to travel. Fort William is pretty small and won't have many vet practices. The only equine specialist in all of the Highlands is Kessock Vets, on the Black Isle, which is just outside of Inverness.

 

[Fifty Bales of Hay]

Thank you Caol Ila - Ive looked up Kessock Vets, but they are 2 hours drive or more away from Fort William, so even without ringing them - if they would travel that far, the cost of the vetting is going to be mahoosive with them adding on 4 hours of driving time to get there and back.
Its too far I think, unless they expect to travel in Scotland and don't charge too much for their travelling time? (I know that's unlikely).

 

[Caol Ila]

Everywhere is far up there. The Highlands are a big, sparsely populated area, and relative to the Central Belt or England, the horse population is small. Especially in the West Highlands where most people run tough-as-nails Highland ponies because nothing else can survive easily on the grazing. Anyway, I found a vet practice with offices in Aviemore and Kingussie, the latter of which is about an hour from Fort Bill (and Aviemore is around an hour and a half). Their website suggests they are mixed practice. I imagine these will travel for livestock and equines because you will have farmers who live several hours away from any town big enough to have a vet practice.