Really hacked off with the vet this time....

PinkTulips

Have posted about my local vets and their general incompetance before but this beats all;

I have 2 six month old female kittens, went to the vets today to arrange spaying (didn't even ask before as the vets around here are a joke so i knew there'd be no chance before 6 months).

The receptionist pulled a face and told me 'We don't spay kittens that young, they need to be older and to have either been in heat or had a litter' :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

I have to admit i got a bit arsey and told her actually they should be done at 4 months before there's any chance of them going into heat and she's asking the vet if he'll do it and ringing me back.

FFS though, i'm not even sure i want an idiot like that chopping up my girls :mad:

kildara

See another vet.

Some pratices vary on when they will neuter dogs (sorry, I know nothing about cats). Some say before the first heat, others say after. Maybe you got a practice who say the latter and the veterinary nurse you spoke to takes that as gospel?

Hope you get them sorted.

Incheerocket

definetly try and find another vet.

PinkTulips

My only choices in town are this guy who advertises as a small animal vet or the guy i've used before who is a lovely man but mainly a large animal vet and doesn't really have a clue about cats.

No idea where to bring them but i'm really not comfortable with this guy tbh... i know there's a very good surgery in castlebar but that's an hours drive away so not really practical or fair on the girls as it would be much more stressful for them.

Jules

Ok, the heat and litter thing is bull we all know that but spaying a female kitten at 4 months is not really done at all. They need the hormonal development. UCD recommends 5/6 months.

toadfly

PinkTulips wrote: »

i know there's a very good surgery in castlebar but that's an hours drive away so not really practical or fair on the girls as it would be much more stressful for them.

Hi!

just wondering what is the name of the vets in Castlebar that is good??

Thanks

PinkTulips

The Animal Hospital is supposed to be good, Mayo SPCA deal with them alot and give reduced price neutering vouchers for them.

Moy Vetinary in Ballina is also quite good if that's near to you.

Sadly i don't know any closer to me though!

kildara

Bring them to Castlebar if you are happy with the vet there. An hour is not all that bad. People regularly bring their pets long distances in order to see specialists in their breed/field etc.

Clare Bear

I'd rather drive an hour than bring them to a Vet you're not happy with OP.

toadfly

PinkTulips wrote: »

The Animal Hospital is supposed to be good, Mayo SPCA deal with them alot and give reduced price neutering vouchers for them.

Moy Vetinary in Ballina is also quite good if that's near to you.

Sadly i don't know any closer to me though!

cool thanks that is where I go just double checking! I am happy with them but find them expensive. nice guys though.

9wetfckx43j5rg

Maybe we should start a thread about rubbish vets.

Went to a well known vet in my area with a greyhound who was limping and had a sore foot. He didn't know what was wrong with it, took a x ray and eventually said she may need to have a toe amputated.

Took her to another vet who immediately diagnosed it as a corn, gave a bit of treatment and used human corn plasters and the dog returned to 100%.

toadfly

Harmony Gigantic Ore wrote: »

Went to a well known vet in my area with a greyhound who was limping and had a sore foot. He didn't know what was wrong with it, took a x ray and eventually said she may need to have a toe amputated.

I feel sick after reading that.

I do agree would rather drive an hour to a good vet than go to the nearby one that you dont trust.

Good luck

kildara

Harmony Gigantic Ore wrote: »

Maybe we should start a thread about rubbish vets.

Went to a well known vet in my area with a greyhound who was limping and had a sore foot. He didn't know what was wrong with it, took a x ray and eventually said she may need to have a toe amputated.

Took her to another vet who immediately diagnosed it as a corn, gave a bit of treatment and used human corn plasters and the dog returned to 100%.

Vets are just like doctors; they can't possibly know every symptom of every ailment.
Sometimes they have to learn as they go.
No vet, in my opinion, would ever knowingly mis-diagnose an animal.

There are poor vets, as there are poor painters, engineers, teachers etc.

Also, the OPs problem in this thread (I havent read the other thread though they do say they were incompetant) was more to do with the secretary's (or whatever she was) ignorance.

PinkTulips

I've hear the animal hosptial is good but tbh i don't have any personal experiance of them... moy vetinary on the other hand i've dealt with and is about the same drive... might go there with them, i can pop to my parents and wait there for them rather than driving all the way home too

PinkTulips

Harmony Gigantic Ore wrote: »

Maybe we should start a thread about rubbish vets.

Went to a well known vet in my area with a greyhound who was limping and had a sore foot. He didn't know what was wrong with it, took a x ray and eventually said she may need to have a toe amputated.

Took her to another vet who immediately diagnosed it as a corn, gave a bit of treatment and used human corn plasters and the dog returned to 100%.

I brought a kitten with an infected eye to one of the local vets a few months ago, after treating him he told me if it wasn't better in a week that the kitten would be best PTS as 'There's no point removing the eye, especially as you have 5 other cats' :eek:

Said kitten is a strapping little thing now and although it took two months is now fully sighted in both eyes, but even when the infected eye was blind never stopped purring or playing and was perfectly able to live an active happy life.

PinkTulips

kildara.... the receptionist is a daft woman but she takes her orders from the vet, he's clearly told her he won't spay cats of 6 months that haven't been in heat yet, she's hardly made that up on the spot!

Same vet refused to see the kitten i mentioned above as the receptionist said he was 'lively' so clearly wasn't an emergancy... never mind the fact that his inner eyelid was so swollen that it was protruding half an inch out of his eye socket... he was lively so clearly fine

he also refused to spay a female cat who'd had kittens until she stopped nursing, of course by that time she was pregnant again :mad:

doctor evil

That's annoying about the vet.

Pregnant cats can still be neutered especially when they are not far along.

dee o gee

Its ridiculus what some vets will say, iv come across some awful receptionists also. Id definetely stay away from him.

I was doing work experience in a vets in sligo (don't know if im allowed name it) and a woman came in with a kitten that she'd found and decided to keep, she wanted all the usual done like vaccinations, worming, bought her a litter tray and booked her in to be neutered, after this woman left the girls behind the counter started bitching about her that she was being stupid spending all that money on a stray kitten (bearing in mind that she was keeping the kitten and it was very friendly), and these girls call themselves animal lovers!!
Also in this same place, there was a jrt that came in, they'd been told he can be a bit snappy so when it came the time to give him an injection instead of putting a muzzle on him and restraining him, they put him on a lead stood him in a doorway, closed the door tight on him and injected him! Also they had a girl that had done an animal care course (not even a vet nurse course) that was neutering male dogs without a proper vet or vet nurse present. Needless to say I havent gone back to them!

I would definetely recommend moy vet clinic in ballina, lovely people in there. Theres another thread about vets around mayo/sligo/roscommon area down the page, if your looking for a vet.

Magenta

PinkTulips wrote: »

Have posted about my local vets and their general incompetance before but this beats all;

I have 2 six month old female kittens, went to the vets today to arrange spaying (didn't even ask before as the vets around here are a joke so i knew there'd be no chance before 6 months).

The receptionist pulled a face and told me 'We don't spay kittens that young, they need to be older and to have either been in heat or had a litter' :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

I have to admit i got a bit arsey and told her actually they should be done at 4 months before there's any chance of them going into heat and she's asking the vet if he'll do it and ringing me back.

FFS though, i'm not even sure i want an idiot like that chopping up my girls :mad:

Stop going to these two vets. You have posted bad stories about them before (like the one who neutered your cat on his desk) but yet you still go to them? There are more than 2 vets in the country and an hour is not a long time to drive.

anniehoo

Im human..spot the obvious haha...but its taken me a good 10 years to find a GP i respect and trust. One who doesnt treat me like another number on their books and will listen to me and my symptoms..not categorise me with the thousands of other patients they see every year. Yeh, they all have the same knowledge but each and every person will learn and practise in different ways. Vets are no different. Some are small animal orientated,others large,others just apply the same basic knowledge they learned in college and hope for the best. Dont put your trust in just one vet because its convenient,because theyre not perfect.

Research, ask questions and dont be afraid to "shop around". Any vet worth their salt wont mind you asking them questions and answering them.

The Sweeper

Jules wrote: »

Ok, the heat and litter thing is bull we all know that but spaying a female kitten at 4 months is not really done at all. They need the hormonal development. UCD recommends 5/6 months.

I'll have to disagree with you on this one - Australian vets neuter kittens from 8 weeks onwards, depending on their weight. Yep, it's microsurgery, but there are marked advantages.

http://www.royaleragdollcats.com/text/SpayNeuter.html
http://www.cfa.org/articles/health/early-neuter.html

Diana Cruden, PhD, summarised a test carried out by the Winn Feline Foundation on kittens and cats neutered at 7 weeks, 7 months and at 12 months. It makes very interesting reading - it's available at a number of spots on the internet, with some sites reproducing more of the information than others.

From personal experience with my cats and the shelter cats, recovery time is very short when they are neutered small - males are better within 24 hours, and females still wear their stitches for days, but the incision is an inch long, in their belly rather than their side; so minimal shaving and no itchy hair regrowth, plus the incision is closed with two stitches. The kittens never need elizabethan collars. The females need to be kept quiet for about 48 hours to stop them pulling their stitches or disturbing the internal wound, because they're ready to run and jump boisterously within 24 hours as well.

Edit to add: the test shows that there is no significant differences between neutering cats at seven weeks and seven months - in other words, the cat's health, size and so on is unremarkable whether they are neutered at seven weeks or seven months. This means the advantages of early neutering are speedier recovery and especially no remote chance of an unwanted litter.

Every one of my own five cats has been neutered early - some as early as eight weeks, others closer to 10 or 12 weeks. They're thriving.

dmy1001

PinkTulips wrote: »

Have posted about my local vets and their general incompetance before but this beats all;


FFS though, i'm not even sure i want an idiot like that chopping up my girls :mad:

i had an issue with a vets which made me stop and wonder.......then i had a second and i moved and will never go back. if you have issues with their competence why are you still using them? just don't give them your business if thats the way you feel as if somethign happens you will never forgive yourself.