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I do feel sorry for people who struggle to find vets that they feel comfortable with and who try and push their own agendas onto people.
My vets (there are 2 at the same surgery River has seen since he was a puppy) are really pretty good. They have a no consultation fee where if they don't prescribe or diagnose a condition the entire consultation is free. They do this to make sure people come in before symptoms and problems get too bad and they've never once come up with something just so they can charge me the consult fee. They've never pushed their Advance or Science Diet products onto me - as far as I can tell they just stock them in their surgery and sure if I probably asked they'd recommend them to me but they have never tried to talk me into buying them and I've never fed them.
I did take River to a holistic vet to try and get some more indepth help with trying to find a way to help his anal gland problem and that was worth it in itself (though the cost was pretty high as he charged on time) as this vet knew all about raw feeding whereas my usual vets don't really seem to have that indepth knowledge. This particular vet vaccinates with nosodes and I haven't yet discussed with our regular vets their views on vaccinations. For my own reasons I've decided against the nosodes with River for the time being.
I do kinda feel sorry for vets these days though - we are living in such a litigious society that many of them are probably too scared to think outside what they've been taught and what has always worked - I really think it's a bit of a catch 22 with all the info avaliable on the internet and what they feel has been proven to work in the past.
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