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<blockquote data-quote="Nite Hawk" data-source="post: 986302" data-attributes="member: 18682"><p>In our area there isn't a whole pile of vets available in general, and they charge a good penny for mileage plus fees, which I understand they have to do as they have to make a living and it costs to drive the distances that we have here.That is why most people in our area "pool" vet expenses unless it is an emmergency, in that case if the animal is mobile they are usually hauled into town instead of the vet coming out. </p><p>Because of the high costs of travel and vet fees, most people here do as much as possible themselves before even thinking of calling a vet. The first line of defense is calling an very experianced neighbor before calling a vet, unless it is an emergency.</p><p> Also, it can get frustrating if you know more than they do, and they end up charging you "for their lack of knowledge".</p><p>A neighbor had a young cow prolapse, and a young vet just out of school came out and sewed her up--wrong- which anybody who has ever sewed a prolapse up would know. Instead of criss -crossing the stitches back and forth cross the cows posterior, she sewed the cow up by sewing a few loops up and down beside the cows vulva. Of course the cow re-prolapsed and a different vet came out and did it right. All I could wonder was -"you paid $100,000 at vet school to learn to sew a cow up wrong, and I have never been to vet school and know how to do it right??" Plus charging the neighbor to do it wrong..?</p><p> At one time we had a real bad outbreak of sheep keds at one point, and of course some younger family members had the job of pulling the blood suckers off and flattening them,and once in a while the keds would stick and try to suck human blood. some of the animals were getting run down from blood loss, and I was trying to find a good treatment for the little buggers. When I asked the vet, he told me _"they don't suck blood"!. Well then you tell me when you squish them why is there a red blotch left behind? but he didn't believe me.</p><p>With that said there are good vets out there who when they say it will cost XYZ- it will cost fairly close to what they quote, but I have had it happen a number of times being quoted a certain price and when it was all said and done it was w-a-y above the quote.</p><p>When you live on a very small income it isn't a joke and when they want the full price right NOW, and won't take payments after gouging you, so you do everything you can to avoid their services when possible.</p><p>Canada has very few vet schools, so of course fewer vets, so they can charge higher prices because of lack of competition.</p><p>If I remember right about only 14 or so individuals are accepted from B.C per year for vet school, with corresponding and varying numbers per province across Canada.</p><p>A neighbor from Europe who was licensed overseas decided to get her Canadian ticket,and it cost her about $25,000 to up grade and take all the tests. It is a very controlled market here, and a difficult and expensive field to get into, and some of them charge accordingly. That said, yes I do use vet, but as little as possible. I will buy alot of my medicines from the vet instead of the feed store if the price is comparable,because some of them have helped with advice in the past, so I return the favor by giving them the business.</p><p>There are good vets out there,and who are good to deal with, but I have been "burned" so am careful.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nite Hawk, post: 986302, member: 18682"] In our area there isn't a whole pile of vets available in general, and they charge a good penny for mileage plus fees, which I understand they have to do as they have to make a living and it costs to drive the distances that we have here.That is why most people in our area "pool" vet expenses unless it is an emmergency, in that case if the animal is mobile they are usually hauled into town instead of the vet coming out. Because of the high costs of travel and vet fees, most people here do as much as possible themselves before even thinking of calling a vet. The first line of defense is calling an very experianced neighbor before calling a vet, unless it is an emergency. Also, it can get frustrating if you know more than they do, and they end up charging you "for their lack of knowledge". A neighbor had a young cow prolapse, and a young vet just out of school came out and sewed her up--wrong- which anybody who has ever sewed a prolapse up would know. Instead of criss -crossing the stitches back and forth cross the cows posterior, she sewed the cow up by sewing a few loops up and down beside the cows vulva. Of course the cow re-prolapsed and a different vet came out and did it right. All I could wonder was -"you paid $100,000 at vet school to learn to sew a cow up wrong, and I have never been to vet school and know how to do it right??" Plus charging the neighbor to do it wrong..? At one time we had a real bad outbreak of sheep keds at one point, and of course some younger family members had the job of pulling the blood suckers off and flattening them,and once in a while the keds would stick and try to suck human blood. some of the animals were getting run down from blood loss, and I was trying to find a good treatment for the little buggers. When I asked the vet, he told me _"they don't suck blood"!. Well then you tell me when you squish them why is there a red blotch left behind? but he didn't believe me. With that said there are good vets out there who when they say it will cost XYZ- it will cost fairly close to what they quote, but I have had it happen a number of times being quoted a certain price and when it was all said and done it was w-a-y above the quote. When you live on a very small income it isn't a joke and when they want the full price right NOW, and won't take payments after gouging you, so you do everything you can to avoid their services when possible. Canada has very few vet schools, so of course fewer vets, so they can charge higher prices because of lack of competition. If I remember right about only 14 or so individuals are accepted from B.C per year for vet school, with corresponding and varying numbers per province across Canada. A neighbor from Europe who was licensed overseas decided to get her Canadian ticket,and it cost her about $25,000 to up grade and take all the tests. It is a very controlled market here, and a difficult and expensive field to get into, and some of them charge accordingly. That said, yes I do use vet, but as little as possible. I will buy alot of my medicines from the vet instead of the feed store if the price is comparable,because some of them have helped with advice in the past, so I return the favor by giving them the business. There are good vets out there,and who are good to deal with, but I have been "burned" so am careful. [/QUOTE]
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