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How many vets have you used??

moi

Mama Doe
We have 2 in our town, and the first was useless so I now use the next one. How many vets did you use before finding the perfect one? x
 
We were lucky to find one on our first go :) Alf went to one with the breeder at 6 weeks old when he got headtilt, but we took him straight to ours when we got him. I wouldn't give anywhere else our service now, especially with the bunny specialist there.
 
Three. Started with my dog vet. Then found Guy Carter in Watford before realising The Cat and Rabbit Care Clinic had opened in Northampton :thumb:.
 
i've used both vets in my town. the second one is better but not great. they had a bunny-keen vet when we first joined, but she soon left. the first one was convinced that rabbits can't breed before they are six months old. i trusted the advice i'd had from the breeder (yes, readers, all four from breeders) and had matthew snipped as soon as he had plums to show.
 
I've used two. The one I'm registered with who are fab with bunnies, and then another one locally because my registered one isn't open on a Saturday and it was an emergency - probably the biggest waste of money ever for them to pick up Penfold and say 'I'm not sure' when she wasn't eating. They then gave me about eight syringes and some random powdered food to be mixed with water :roll:

I didn't know any better at the time (although I knew they were useless) so took her back home where she picked up and started eating anyway, looking back, I think it may have just been that she had been moulting and had probably taken in too much fur
 
I have my normal vet, who is fine with the usual bunny problems, and they have an exotics specialist who is ok. Then the emergency vet. Each time I have seen a different vet and each time they have been really good. And we have seen 3 bunny experts at D1ck Vet. Two were great, but the other wasn't so good.

I would love a great vet for the buns and my dog, but not having a car kind of limits where we can go.
 
I had a great vet where we used to live and the first thing I did when we decided to move to bristol is contact the rwaf to find a good bunny vet..before we'd even found a house :oops:
 
I thought I had found a great vet practice but it's not until your animal is really ill that you find out they are not as good as you thought! I've been to two different vet practices and seen lots of different vets then an exotic pet specialist who told me Doughnut was fine when I knew she was poorly and eventually I found a great exotic pet specialist who told me Doughnut was very poorly! I only trust his practice now and the two other exotic pet specialists there.
 
I'm on my second with one of my rabbit's. The first one well they were about as good as a chocolate teapot.
The second vets are great. Lovely people who are not scared to admit when they are out of their depth. a consult or referral to the lovely Ian Sayers is done. Two of my rabbits are treated by Ian now so on the third with one of them.

Oh just to point out I have six rabbits.
Four treated by vet two
Two by Ian.
 
Two, my rabbits are registered at both. The one near me is ok, and I can get there quickly in an emergency. Expensive though. My cats go there anyway and they're ok with rodents too. The vet I prefer is further away but much, much cheaper and better with rabbits overall.
 
Two, same experience as cpayne. First one was ok, but didn't really know about rabbits and it was extremely hit and miss as to which vet you saw. I think I only saw the same vet twice, other than that they were always different. There was no continuity of care.

At Trinity, even if you don't see the same vet every time they don't chop and change and you can request a particular vet if need be. Nutmeg's seen Allie a lot recently whose been really great with her. And if need be they can easily consult with each other. There is continuity there and that's really important to me.

Edit, oh and the emergency vets so that's three. I've had to go there twice and both times they've been good. The second time the vet got Smudge on the floor to examine him, confirmed my suspicions and then asked me what Mark would do. :lol:
 
Only the one vets practice but several good bunny savvy vets. When we had one of our buns go into stassis they arranged for their best bunny vet to meet us within 20 mins and gave bunny all the treatment she could have. Although the bunny sadly passed away the vet rang 3 days later to ask how the bunny was and after I told her the bun had passed away we received a sympathy card from the practice a few days later! Not sure if this is normal practice but it seems to be for my vets!
 
In 30+years my family have only used the 1 Vets ~ Stanhope Park Veterinary Hospital in Darlington. They are wonderful.

The practice used to be owned by Andrew Geldard who was a lovely vet. His "apprentice" Micaela Wright took over the practice once he retired and she has really expanded the practice from strength to strength. They have a couple more smaller practices in nearby towns but the main practice in Darlington is a fully equipped 24 hour hospital, so mostly importantly no stupid emergency vets or waiting for blood/faecal results to come back as they can do them on-site.

She has put together a really strong team, with a number of exotic vets and nurses. You don't always get to see the same vets but you can request them if you choose too.
They are really reasonable on price as well, vaccinations are £25, George and Hershel's neuters cost £40-45 and Harry's spay was £50ish. Also they will claim directly from your pet insurance, so no need for us to pay first, which is a god send and the reason you have insurance.

To be honest I think my family (including my dogs) are all kinda in love with Micaela and probably worship the ground she walks on :lol: But she really cares and works herself really hard. Our Floss (border collie) has been diagnosed with IMHA (Immune Mediated Hemolytic Anemia) twice. The first time she took a few months of steroid treatment to get better, but the second twice last year was life or death and resulted in her having her spleen removed. One point when she wasn't getting better, she saw a specialist up in Cramlington, who was absolutely useless and only repeated the same tests as our vets did and charged about triple (approx £1000 in one day). But if it wasn't for the determination of Micaela and her team, we would have lost her. We feel so lucky to have such as wonderful vet only 5-10 minutes away.
 
we used the local one, then two different out of hours ones. then we found our rabbit vet and have been there ever since. they also do out of hours aswell now so we can go there whenever we need.
 
I've used a couple of different ones for the hamsters - one was an emergancy and one was during normal hours. I cannot judge their effectivness really as I was taking the hamsters to be pts as I knew they would likely not recover from the respiritory problems they had:cry:. But they were very kind though and helped my fuzz butts on their way beautifully.

I think we were remarkably lucky - well the buns were remarkably lucky considering that we knew nothing about buns but thank goodness our first vet and his nurses are pretty clued up on them. We have used their out of hours service - never again - the woman vet stank of cigarette smoke and didn't see that anything was wrong with a rabbit who was in full blown stasis.
We have used another emergency vets for Sheldon who had snuffles and seemed to be not quite himself - the vet we thought was very good and very thorough with Sheldon.

So all in all we've been very lucky. And even more lucky that we have Mark - Trinnity vets - as the fall back plan if Stefan leaves or cannot treat one of our buns.
 
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