Hi Everyone..
I just had quite a row with my vet on the phone..I have to update another post relating to the issue of when this all started but basically. I rang my vet to try and aquire some more metacam and some more sryinges as they only gave us a tiny amount of metacam and some got wasted trying to get it in him. Also I want to always have some on hand for emergencies, and general pain relief/gas etc..
Basically our bun has had very bad stasis to the point where we almost lost him (no thanks to the vets he is with), and after insisting twice for fluids they wouldn't give him any, and just kept giving him indadequate pain relief, and gut stimulants etc. and leaving him in pain etc, and telling us he needs to eat more hay etc..but kept tellings us to go back, on and on this went for nearly two weeks whilst we were trying to save him and they were doing nothing.. bla bla..
anyway.
I wanted to order some more needles (size 20gage)
an extension kit so I can attach a rubber tube to the shringe as opposed to having to hold the sryinge, and another bag of vettex-11
Small bottle of metacam
All of this really I just wanted to stock in, for emergency as he is still recovery but off the fluids now and I want to make sure that we always have everything we need in case he relapses, or has any other emergencies to keep him going until we can get him to a rabbit savvy vet (which we are in the process of finding thanks to everyone on this board).
I spoke to the vets today he is currently with and explained all this, and they said they wont sell me any metacam, or any of the equiptment etc unless I take him in each time, in which case they charge me a consultation fee everytime.. and that's assuming he only ever falls ill, or gets pain etc 9-5 mon to fri..
I said what happens if its a sunday or a nighttime etc, or it's just a bad gas episode.. I have to rush him to the emergency vets? or just sit there and watch him in pain? but they wouldn't listen, also all they would do is exactly what we could do at home anyway if I had the right medicines etc, and then probably not even that as I had to insist on the fluids before they gave him them..
Sooo
I just wondering how other people get metacam, and the fluids etc, or where/how I can purchase some for emergencies..to always keep in stock
Does it depend on the vet?
I am also changing vets..
Thanks
Martin
ps, sorry about the rant, Im just soo with the way they handled our bun..
I just had quite a row with my vet on the phone..I have to update another post relating to the issue of when this all started but basically. I rang my vet to try and aquire some more metacam and some more sryinges as they only gave us a tiny amount of metacam and some got wasted trying to get it in him. Also I want to always have some on hand for emergencies, and general pain relief/gas etc..
Basically our bun has had very bad stasis to the point where we almost lost him (no thanks to the vets he is with), and after insisting twice for fluids they wouldn't give him any, and just kept giving him indadequate pain relief, and gut stimulants etc. and leaving him in pain etc, and telling us he needs to eat more hay etc..but kept tellings us to go back, on and on this went for nearly two weeks whilst we were trying to save him and they were doing nothing.. bla bla..
anyway.
I wanted to order some more needles (size 20gage)
an extension kit so I can attach a rubber tube to the shringe as opposed to having to hold the sryinge, and another bag of vettex-11
Small bottle of metacam
All of this really I just wanted to stock in, for emergency as he is still recovery but off the fluids now and I want to make sure that we always have everything we need in case he relapses, or has any other emergencies to keep him going until we can get him to a rabbit savvy vet (which we are in the process of finding thanks to everyone on this board).
I spoke to the vets today he is currently with and explained all this, and they said they wont sell me any metacam, or any of the equiptment etc unless I take him in each time, in which case they charge me a consultation fee everytime.. and that's assuming he only ever falls ill, or gets pain etc 9-5 mon to fri..
I said what happens if its a sunday or a nighttime etc, or it's just a bad gas episode.. I have to rush him to the emergency vets? or just sit there and watch him in pain? but they wouldn't listen, also all they would do is exactly what we could do at home anyway if I had the right medicines etc, and then probably not even that as I had to insist on the fluids before they gave him them..
Sooo
I just wondering how other people get metacam, and the fluids etc, or where/how I can purchase some for emergencies..to always keep in stock
Does it depend on the vet?
I am also changing vets..
Thanks
Martin
ps, sorry about the rant, Im just soo with the way they handled our bun..