Veterinary history

Well, I sold a horse a few years ago and because the lady who bought him used my own vet, he was obliged to tell her if there had been any problems with the horse in the past. He had to have a tendon scanned in the end and they found a hole (she still bought him).
 
data protection.
You can get it if the old owner requests it from the vet and gives it to you. You then can go to your vets with it!
 
What if the same vet has treated the horse all its life, then refused to tell the new owner anything.
New owner then has to pay out for tests etc even though the vet knows exactly what is wrong with it
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Well, I sold a horse a few years ago and because the lady who bought him used my own vet, he was obliged to tell her if there had been any problems with the horse in the past. He had to have a tendon scanned in the end and they found a hole (she still bought him).

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That's interesting, I didn't know that.
I thought you were always advised to use your own vet for a pre purchase vetting rather than the vendors vet?
 
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data protection.
You can get it if the old owner requests it from the vet and gives it to you. You then can go to your vets with it!

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She is using the same vet as previous owner, so vets know the horse. Previous owner is refusing to give permission to show her old veterinary records.
 
We had huge problems with lameness in the first year we had our TB. Old owner "couldn't understand it, he's never had lameness problems before..." But then I started working at the vets (same vet used with old owner and us) so had access to his notes. Masses and masses of lameness investigations! We didn't have him vetted before we bought him because he was 14, so the vets didn't exactly withold info, but we still went through all the lameness investigations again. He's ok now, luckily.
 
Once all horses are microchipped and registered on the national database then every time a vet sees a horse the visit and outcome of it could be recorded on the national database. Then when going to buy a horse the vet who vets the horse could check out it's medical history on the data base.
 
Vets follow client confidentiality protocols
I am sure no one would ever have thier vet's treatment or reorts made available on a nationall database, nor pay the huge set up and maintainance costs involved.
Not to mention to cost fo the vet's time in doing the records.
 
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Previous owner is refusing to give permission to show her old veterinary records.

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If this is the case then the vet has no choice in the matter (even if it is the same vet for both people). The horse's history essentially "belongs" to whoever owned the horse at the time it was treated. Therefore that owner has to consent to the history being given to anyone (whether a new owner, another vet, specialist vet centre etc). If they say no the vet cannot go against this.
 
Sadly I don't think that the vets have any choice. I had a horse on permenant loan and even then without the owners permision his history was not allowed to be discussed with me. Luckily I was on very good terms with the owner (who eventually gifted the horse to me) so she gave the all clear.

They really are up against it as they have to stick to the rules if they want to avoid some pretty horrid court cases.

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Most vets would not agree to do a vetting for their own clients due to the problems discussed here. They know the history but have to go on what they see on the day etc and this causes all sorts of moral and legal dilemmas.

So with this horse, did the pevious owners vets do the pre-purchase exam or was a different vet used, and how have they ripped your friend off Seahorse or is it too risky to discuss on here?

buying horses is such a minefield, anyone who gets through it unscathed is lucky it would seem. Can't say I want to be back in that position any time soon.

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I sold a horse a few years ago and the prospective purchaser was humming and ha-ing about whether to get him vetted or not. My vet gave me a print-out of all the "treatment" the horse had had since I got him at 18 months old (he was 10 when I sold him). I put 'treatment' in inverted commas because the only time he had seen a vet in all that time was for routine vaccinations and one incidence of very mild colic (one shot of Buscopan and he was fine) so she didn't bother getting him vetted and has never had any problems (she's had him almost 5 years and he's just coming up 15).

It sounds as though the people in your scenario must have something they want to hide.
 
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