URGENT, DONKEY ADVICE NEEDED ASAP

Rowreach

Rowreach

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If there is anyone who has good knowledge of donkeys esp illness in donkey foals, please could they contact me asap.

I'll save my rant about the vet for another time

:mad:

Thanks
 
Thanks for replies, sadly the 5 wk old donkey foal died today of pneumonia. Vet didn't come for 2.5 hours, and didn't respond to my messages at his answering service telling him about the foal's soaring temperature and bpm of 80. This was my neighbour's foal, I was with it 5 minutes after they called me, I know a hell of a lot more about donkey's tonight than I did this morning, and while I don't know if she would've survived if the vet had come straight away, I do know that he should have effing well tried.

RIP Annie and I feel so sorry for the four children who watched her suffer
 
Poor lttle baby. I have a huge soft spot for our long eared friends. We stopped using one vet as they said a horse with laminitis wasnt an emergancy!
 
This is the second time this practice has totally cocked up, but we are in the middle of nowhere and only have one practice that remotely knows about horses. I tend to use them for routine stuff, and anything that needs a real vet I take 2 hours away to a proper equine hospital and a vet I trust implicitly.

Doesn't help you in an emergency though, and I lost a horse to colic last year because of the ineptitude of these s*dding vets. I am so so angry about this, poor poor little donkey :(

Thank you for your kind words everyone.
 
Im so sorry this didnt have a good outcome. As the owner of a few of our long eared friends I can testify that trying to find a vet over here that considers their well being as important as I do has been a battle to say the least.

Would seem they are disposable and not really worth treating in the opinion of many so called vets.:mad:

I am happy to say that I now have a vet who is as diligent treating my donkeys as he is with my horses.

RIP poor little donkey.
 
I rang my usual vet direct, and having told me he wasn't on call today, he then asked me what the problem was and LAUGHED when I said it was my neighbour's donkey foal. Then told me to ring the office number (answer service) and get the on call vet. This is the same vet that took 5 hours to come back to my colicking horse after the initial visit, by which time there was no option but to pts straight away :mad:

What is the matter with these people? I would nearly move house just to be near enough to a decent vet :(
 
Rowreach said:
I rang my usual vet direct, and having told me he wasn't on call today, he then asked me what the problem was and LAUGHED when I said it was my neighbour's donkey foal. Then told me to ring the office number (answer service) and get the on call vet. This is the same vet that took 5 hours to come back to my colicking horse after the initial visit, by which time there was no option but to pts straight away :mad:

What is the matter with these people? I would nearly move house just to be near enough to a decent vet :(
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That attitude stinks!
 
I wish Rascal - trouble is we are a very small rural community and I am wondering how much trouble I would land myself in. I will definitely be taking it up with the senior partner on Wednesday morning, much good will it do :(
 
So sad, RIP little donkey. A lot of vets don't seem to have much donkey knowledge, I had to tell our vet about a suggested treatment for our donkey which my then vet student daughter had learned at a conference. Luckily he was open minded and big enough to take the information on board and treat our lad accordingly.
If voting with your feet isn't an option I would definitely have a word with the senior partner.
 
You need to move. Our vet isnt an equine vet but they were so good when we had to have our old man pts, he even waited while he finnished his feed, we are so lucky now. The equine vets we used to use i wouldnt bother with again.
 
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