Vetting by dealers vet

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I want to buy a horse from a dealer, she seems really genuine and a family friend knows her through their business in horses. So im sure she is.

The only problem is the reccommended vets are also the dealers vets. The horse was brought over from ireland 7 weeks ago, had a 5 stage vetting before coming over, and hasn't been seen by said vets at all since coming over. My vet surgery has reccommended having a vetting because she has been kicked by another horse fairly recently, and it will give me peace of mind.

Do you think this is a problem? The vets have agreed to carry out a vetting because the seller is a dealer, so this is passing trade and they haven't seen the horse before.

Please help, any comments would be appreciated.
 
Personally I would prefer to use a vet that didn't have any connections with the dealers - no conflict of interests.
I'm sure if you post where the horse is people can recommend you other vets surgery local to the dealer.
 
Some vets won't vet a horse for someone if they also look after the owners horses.

I really wouldn't recommend using them, find another one.
 
Thank You everyone, thats my gut feeling too. Thanks shirley123 i'll give them a ring tomorrow. The horse I'm looking at is near Blackpool if anyone else can reccommend a vet I'd be grateful.
 
I would definitely use a different vet. I had a horse vetted by the owners vets before and it was a nightmare. We ended up going to court after we had brought the horse, the vet passed her through a five stage vetting and refused to do x-rays even though we asked for them as he thought they were unnecessary (having known the horse.) Two weeks after we brought her she totally broke down. Bone spavins in both back legs. I am sure we were just extremely unlucky but I would strongly recommend getting an independent vetting!!
 
I don't know but I think John Gilliver would go that far out! Or andrew melling..... they are both lancashire based but I wouldnt be suprised if they stretched that far and are both very good vets (John is one of the vets at HOYS)
 
This sounds about as fishy as a dead mackeral to me!! I went to a very dodgy dealers a while back (since closed down by Trading Standards), and basically you could have any vet you liked as long as it was one of their choosing!!!

Personally, if they jib at you having your choice of vet to do the vetting, I'd say steer well clear. If they want to sell the horse, they must allow you the buyer to have the vet of your choice, or I would walk away.
 
It wasn't the dealers reccommendation. Lots of people had reccommended them both on here and my horsey friends. I spoke to the dealer this morning and she said she wouldn't allow the vetting to be done by moy farm vets because one of the vets there had seen one of her ponies and refused to take it in for an operation, it died the next day when they eventually agreed to take it into the vets because they had left the treatment too long. So I can see her reason.
There aren't many other vets around. I've booked a vetting for wednesday with their vets - I'd rather get it vetted by a vet than none at all. but im still going to try and find another vet.
 
I have a feeling that if the vet 'knows' the horse and it has a verterinary history, then the vet has to disclose it? Is that perhaps why the vets wouldn't be comfortable with doing it?

As this horse hasn't been seen by Oakhill, there oughtn't to be a problem, surely.

I know this particular dealer and haven't heard anything negative about her. I wouldn't have any reason to feel using her vet is a bad move, especially as the animal is not known to them.
 
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