[FrogInABlender]

Well, she may be in the same boat I'm in. I'm lucky to have a large animal vet at all, much less an equine-only. Where I used to live, I had to drive almost an hour up into Tennessee just to see a large animal vet, and he was a mixed practice too. There just AREN'T any equine-only vets around here. There's no money in it, the hours are long and the working conditions suck. They can make much more money just hanging around the office, taking care of dogs and cats and they don't have to worry about a cranky horse kicking the crap out of 'em and breaking their leg where they can't work for 3 months. It's aggravating, but you can't blame them either.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

You're exactly right. For the vets that see both, dealing with a cranky horse is not worth it.

I guess, I'm lucky we are overflowed around here with horse only vets. But for the most part, they are so outrageously priced, and such arrogant SOB's, I won't use them.

Last summer my vet died, and he was great with both large and small. I have found a horse only vet, very close here. "She" is pretty new, just out of school, and is mostly a mobile vet. She's the one that came out here last summer and got Rusty thru his colic. I liked her alot, so I'm giving her a try for awhile.

Becky

[HairOfTheDog]

They can make much more money just hanging around the office, taking care of dogs and cats and they don't have to worry about a cranky horse kicking the crap out of 'em and breaking their leg where they can't work for 3 months. It's aggravating, but you can't blame them either.

I talked to my vet about this the last time he was out, because we were talking about when he was at the clinic I still take the dogs to... He said he absolutely got tired of dog and cat medicine, because it's 95% itchy skin. He got tired of telling every single customer to get better flea control, like broken record. He may have worse hours and possibly less money now, not sure... but he likes horse medicine because he likes focusing on lameness and injury rehab. That's what's interesting to him. He said he doesn't really take on breeders as customers either, because he doesn't ~want~ to have to be on midnight duty all spring.