Scoobie

With all the forum chat about bad vets and expensive and ripoff vets, I'd be interested to hear what are your priorities when choosing a vet. Is it price, is it qualifications, is it how close it is to home, is it how easy it is to get an appointment when you need it...??????? There's sure to be some interesting replies. For myself, I need to be able to trust them. If that means them telling me they don't know the answer to my question but they'll find out, I'd rather that than have them tell me something just for the sake of telling me. That's closely followed by diagnostic and surgical skill, and price is third on the list. Having said that, there's no point in having a good vet if they're so busy you can't get to see them for three days... Anybody want to toss in their thoughts? Rosie

From someone who knows a few vets fairly well, the markup on such products all goes towards maintaining the facility and services. Fair enough if the markup is massive, but once a source of income is reduced for the vet, who still has to pay the same rent, insurance, staff wages, workers compensation, xray machine maintenance, anaesthetic machine maintenance etc etc etc, they'll have to make up the shortfall elsewhere. You'll find your consultation fee may go up, and certainly medical and surgical care will increase. They have to pay their expenses somehow. Rosie