From The Horses Mouth

[DogMagic 461]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1232217/Why-Im-ashamed-vet-shocking-expose-profession-puts-pets-painful-unnecessary-treatments-fleece-trusting-owners.html

[Mixed Bag 603]

good read very true a lot of vets are pure money grabbing con artists

[BIGLURKS 874]

Not much that every one does not know iam just glad iam friends with a few and if they offer something stupid they get told well and truly too stop being a idiot they know when they say it as well lol

[sams-man 44]

i had my bitch at the vet this afternoon, she has a growth on one of her toes, after a 2min check i was advised the growth would be cut out & possibly sent for a biopsy,after asking what cost this would be i was told it would be £200+ just to have the growth removed then addons for stitches & antibiotics afterwords then the price of the biopsy on top of that,after questioning the bill i was told that the anisthetic alone was £95 + vat ..needles to say a`ll be looking at other vets now

[BrianSteven72 369]

Shocking !!!

[LaraCroft 863]

Not that shocking. I've been a vet nurse for many years - the first place I worked at was a one vet practice. He would regularly take in cats/dogs with vomiting and diarrhoea because he could "feel" something inside them. He would knock them out with gas anaesthetic, cut through the skin on the belly, sew it back up with 4-6 stitches. He would show the owners an xray of a cat abdomen with a drawing pin in its tummy, and charge the owners £100's for xrays, operation etc etc - when it was nothing more than an upset tum. Not all vets are the same - I have worked with some amazing people - but, they run a business, and no one looks over their shoulder like they do in the NHS.

[R.A.W 1,987]

nothing surprises me .

 

i thought all vets were like James Herriot then i had to pay the first forking bill.

[R.A.W 1,987]

Not that shocking. I've been a vet nurse for many years - the first place I worked at was a one vet practice. He would regularly take in cats/dogs with vomiting and diarrhoea because he could "feel" something inside them. He would knock them out with gas anaesthetic, cut through the skin on the belly, sew it back up with 4-6 stitches. He would show the owners an xray of a cat abdomen with a drawing pin in its tummy, and charge the owners £100's for xrays, operation etc etc - when it was nothing more than an upset tum. Not all vets are the same - I have worked with some amazing people - but, they run a business, and no one looks over their shoulder like they do in the NHS.

 

was he ever held to account of his actions?

[LaraCroft 863]

nothing surprises me .

 

i thought all vets were like James Herriot then i had to pay the first forking bill.

 

Agree. I went into vet nursing as a naive 17 year old, and it was quite an eye opener. Not all vets, but enough to tarnish the reputation. I'm a softie - I freely admit that I would sell my house if it meant one of my dogs got the treatment he needed - but the unnecessary stuff they try to do is just wrong.

[nothernlite 18,089]

Not that shocking. I've been a vet nurse for many years - the first place I worked at was a one vet practice. He would regularly take in cats/dogs with vomiting and diarrhoea because he could "feel" something inside them. He would knock them out with gas anaesthetic, cut through the skin on the belly, sew it back up with 4-6 stitches. He would show the owners an xray of a cat abdomen with a drawing pin in its tummy, and charge the owners £100's for xrays, operation etc etc - when it was nothing more than an upset tum. Not all vets are the same - I have worked with some amazing people - but, they run a business, and no one looks over their shoulder like they do in the NHS.

and did you turn a blind eye to this or report him?

[LaraCroft 863]

Not that shocking. I've been a vet nurse for many years - the first place I worked at was a one vet practice. He would regularly take in cats/dogs with vomiting and diarrhoea because he could "feel" something inside them. He would knock them out with gas anaesthetic, cut through the skin on the belly, sew it back up with 4-6 stitches. He would show the owners an xray of a cat abdomen with a drawing pin in its tummy, and charge the owners £100's for xrays, operation etc etc - when it was nothing more than an upset tum. Not all vets are the same - I have worked with some amazing people - but, they run a business, and no one looks over their shoulder like they do in the NHS.

and did you turn a blind eye to this or report him?

 

He got caught and stopped working as a vet.

[telf 15]

not all vets are con men but why cant we have a good vet scheme like what garages do, cos i have been taking to the cleaners by garages befofe.

[satan and todd 125]

funny ye can treat ye kids at home but cant treat your own pets cause of the rspca ..........its a funny old world were living in ..............

[Jamo 90]

if you can make money from it, c**ts will exploit it.

[nothernlite 18,089]

Not that shocking. I've been a vet nurse for many years - the first place I worked at was a one vet practice. He would regularly take in cats/dogs with vomiting and diarrhoea because he could "feel" something inside them. He would knock them out with gas anaesthetic, cut through the skin on the belly, sew it back up with 4-6 stitches. He would show the owners an xray of a cat abdomen with a drawing pin in its tummy, and charge the owners £100's for xrays, operation etc etc - when it was nothing more than an upset tum. Not all vets are the same - I have worked with some amazing people - but, they run a business, and no one looks over their shoulder like they do in the NHS.

and did you turn a blind eye to this or report him?

 

He got caught and stopped working as a vet.

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