Comments on: Veterinary Association Responds to BBC Panorama Vet Expose http://www.dogmagazine.net/archives/6047/veterinary-association-responds-to-bbc-panorama-vet-expose/ the lifestyle magazine for dog lovers Sat, 11 Jun 2011 15:23:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: maps4pets http://www.dogmagazine.net/archives/6047/veterinary-association-responds-to-bbc-panorama-vet-expose/#comment-120051 maps4pets Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:11:26 +0000 http://www.dogmagazine.net/?p=6047#comment-120051 Good update which we have retweeted to our followers on Twitter. Will subscribe to your free issue online aswell. Thanks. Good update which we have retweeted to our followers on Twitter. Will subscribe to your free issue online aswell. Thanks.

]]> By: John Coventry http://www.dogmagazine.net/archives/6047/veterinary-association-responds-to-bbc-panorama-vet-expose/#comment-120032 John Coventry Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:15:59 +0000 http://www.dogmagazine.net/?p=6047#comment-120032 If you don't like your vets change. For the last 25 years I have been going to my local vets in Braod Lane, Coventry with my many pets. I have always felt that the vets and nurse there are real animal lovers. Treatments cost money but you get what you pay for, I am happy to pay whatever it takes to help my dogs but I have never felt overcharged in 25 years, sometimes they have given me free treatment or waived charges. If you don't like you vet change. If you have a good, small local vet stick with them. If you don’t like your vets change.

For the last 25 years I have been going to my local vets in Braod Lane, Coventry with my many pets. I have always felt that the vets and nurse there are real animal lovers. Treatments cost money but you get what you pay for, I am happy to pay whatever it takes to help my dogs but I have never felt overcharged in 25 years, sometimes they have given me free treatment or waived charges.

If you don’t like you vet change. If you have a good, small local vet stick with them.

]]> By: Victoria Thomas http://www.dogmagazine.net/archives/6047/veterinary-association-responds-to-bbc-panorama-vet-expose/#comment-120013 Victoria Thomas Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:42:45 +0000 http://www.dogmagazine.net/?p=6047#comment-120013 I watched this programme last night with increasing horror. Why haven't the Fraud Squad been called in to look at the accounts and investigate the ridiculous charges? Sadly, this is not the only veterinary chain to be suspicious of. I had three dogs signed up to a Midland chain, and only when I received the medical records of one dog after he died from cancer, did I discover that this Practice had suspected cancer some two years before, but neither investigated nor mentioned it to me. My dog seemed to recover, but became ill in the April of 2005. For the next two months, Jack was subjected to two x rays, two overnight stays to be put on drips for dehydration, an exploritory operation, a five day stay at the vets, six different types of medication and numerous tests, and the whole time I was being told that they didn't know what was wrong but it wasn't life threatening! On 16th June 05, a new vet did another x ray, which revealed a tumour the size of a rugby ball in Jack's chest. He died eleven days later. The exploritory op had taken place six weeks before he died, yet they ''didn't spot'' the massive tumour! At one point they even declared me neurotic because I knew something was badly wrong and they did nothing but prescribe yet more pills for him. The RCVS concluded that this Practice had done nothing wrong. I watched this programme last night with increasing horror. Why haven’t the Fraud Squad been called in to look at the accounts and investigate the ridiculous charges?
Sadly, this is not the only veterinary chain to be suspicious of. I had three dogs signed up to a Midland chain, and only when I received the medical records of one dog after he died from cancer, did I discover that this Practice had suspected cancer some two years before, but neither investigated nor mentioned it to me. My dog seemed to recover, but became ill in the April of 2005. For the next two months, Jack was subjected to two x rays, two overnight stays to be put on drips for dehydration, an exploritory operation, a five day stay at the vets, six different types of medication and numerous tests, and the whole time I was being told that they didn’t know what was wrong but it wasn’t life threatening!
On 16th June 05, a new vet did another x ray, which revealed a tumour the size of a rugby ball in Jack’s chest. He died eleven days later. The exploritory op had taken place six weeks before he died, yet they ”didn’t spot” the massive tumour! At one point they even declared me neurotic because I knew something was badly wrong and they did nothing but prescribe yet more pills for him.
The RCVS concluded that this Practice had done nothing wrong.

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