This is going to be a right moan but I'm sick of vets having zilch training in small furries.
My normal vet is really good with buns so I have no issue with her. I have rats too and she freely admits she doesn't know a lot about them but is willing to learn and she goes away and researches stuff if the client doesn't know the answer and she can't come up with a definite solution. This is the sort of vet I like and I will continue to see her as I think she will get better as time goes on. There is also a really good vet at one of the other branches who I can see if I really need to for things which are more complicated.
My problem is some of the other vets at the practice who sometimes you just have to see if the good ones are not working. Today for example in the whole group there was someone I know to be not very good and a locum so I plumped for the one I knew as it wasn't rocket science what I needed. 2 weeks ago I took one of the buns for a myxi vac. The health check was awful but I'm capable of doing them so let it go. Same vet got rota'ed on today for VHD vac and admitted not knowing much about rabbits in the consult so I said about checking bums. He said "oh yes of course, flystrike" so I put him right on the diet, teeth, dirty bum connections.
I also took a rat in to be PTS at the same time. He had to ask me how to do it as he was going to just inject her in the heart and not anaesthetise her first and then when he had done it I had to ask him to listen to her heart to check she had gone :shock::evil:. Same vet didn't have a clue a couple of weeks ago when I again had no choice but to see him with a rat with a respiratory infection. Fortunately I knew what meds I wanted and the dosages and he just gave me what I asked for and said rat is now fine. There is another vet I refuse to see as she had a go at me for the weight of a bun (overweight) I'd had 6 weeks who had lost 500g between appointments as I'd put her on a diet. She didn't know one end of a rabbit from another and a friend who saw her the same day also had a bad experience with her not knowing what to do.
I enjoy diagnosing my animals and planning treatment and like to think I am pretty good at it. I worry however that a member of the general public who has "a bunny for the kids" will see these vets and be none the wiser and the animal ending up suffering.
I'm not blaming the individual vets but something is seriously wrong with their training whether it's on the vet med course or once they have a job. I wouldn't say the animals I have are particularly rare so I expect my vets to know the basics. Anyone else experince this or have a solution?
My normal vet is really good with buns so I have no issue with her. I have rats too and she freely admits she doesn't know a lot about them but is willing to learn and she goes away and researches stuff if the client doesn't know the answer and she can't come up with a definite solution. This is the sort of vet I like and I will continue to see her as I think she will get better as time goes on. There is also a really good vet at one of the other branches who I can see if I really need to for things which are more complicated.
My problem is some of the other vets at the practice who sometimes you just have to see if the good ones are not working. Today for example in the whole group there was someone I know to be not very good and a locum so I plumped for the one I knew as it wasn't rocket science what I needed. 2 weeks ago I took one of the buns for a myxi vac. The health check was awful but I'm capable of doing them so let it go. Same vet got rota'ed on today for VHD vac and admitted not knowing much about rabbits in the consult so I said about checking bums. He said "oh yes of course, flystrike" so I put him right on the diet, teeth, dirty bum connections.
I also took a rat in to be PTS at the same time. He had to ask me how to do it as he was going to just inject her in the heart and not anaesthetise her first and then when he had done it I had to ask him to listen to her heart to check she had gone :shock::evil:. Same vet didn't have a clue a couple of weeks ago when I again had no choice but to see him with a rat with a respiratory infection. Fortunately I knew what meds I wanted and the dosages and he just gave me what I asked for and said rat is now fine. There is another vet I refuse to see as she had a go at me for the weight of a bun (overweight) I'd had 6 weeks who had lost 500g between appointments as I'd put her on a diet. She didn't know one end of a rabbit from another and a friend who saw her the same day also had a bad experience with her not knowing what to do.
I enjoy diagnosing my animals and planning treatment and like to think I am pretty good at it. I worry however that a member of the general public who has "a bunny for the kids" will see these vets and be none the wiser and the animal ending up suffering.
I'm not blaming the individual vets but something is seriously wrong with their training whether it's on the vet med course or once they have a job. I wouldn't say the animals I have are particularly rare so I expect my vets to know the basics. Anyone else experince this or have a solution?
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