I wonder if any of you have any advise whether we should change vets for Albert and Poppy?
The reasons that I am thinking of changing are:
1 - The first thing that bothered me was that the vet picked albert up using his scruff and I am under the impression that this is a wrong way of handling rabbits.
2 - when we took albert and poppy in and they had to spend the whole day there, instead of asking me to bring in their regular food, they fed them a totally different feed and (I only just put 2 & 2 together this morning) this probably explains why Albert had jelly poo the following night.
3 - Albert was weeing everywhere and losing weight and it cost £1000 for the diagnosis and about £75 of that was for a blood test that their machine messed up on so we had to pay another £200 for an out of house lab test to be done...all of this was to find out that Albert MIGHT have been suffereing from E.Cuniculi but there didn't seem to be anything else wrong.
Apart from that, the vets are all lovely and the vet that 'treated' Albert is a really kind, professional person and I don't want to leave. They were extremely thorough when Albert was not well and I don't resent paying a penny if it was all necessary but several people have said that it sounds as though they were just trying to make the most of it as Albert is insured (not that we got the money back). But anyway, the vets know Albert and Poppy and I do trust them with the surgical/vetinary care of my buns but thay have done a couple of things that do not fit in with my idea of good bunny care...What do you think I should do?
The reasons that I am thinking of changing are:
1 - The first thing that bothered me was that the vet picked albert up using his scruff and I am under the impression that this is a wrong way of handling rabbits.
2 - when we took albert and poppy in and they had to spend the whole day there, instead of asking me to bring in their regular food, they fed them a totally different feed and (I only just put 2 & 2 together this morning) this probably explains why Albert had jelly poo the following night.
3 - Albert was weeing everywhere and losing weight and it cost £1000 for the diagnosis and about £75 of that was for a blood test that their machine messed up on so we had to pay another £200 for an out of house lab test to be done...all of this was to find out that Albert MIGHT have been suffereing from E.Cuniculi but there didn't seem to be anything else wrong.
Apart from that, the vets are all lovely and the vet that 'treated' Albert is a really kind, professional person and I don't want to leave. They were extremely thorough when Albert was not well and I don't resent paying a penny if it was all necessary but several people have said that it sounds as though they were just trying to make the most of it as Albert is insured (not that we got the money back). But anyway, the vets know Albert and Poppy and I do trust them with the surgical/vetinary care of my buns but thay have done a couple of things that do not fit in with my idea of good bunny care...What do you think I should do?