Has anybody heard anything about vets returning to some form of 'normal' yet?   I've checked my own vet's website and the only thing that's new there, in the past couple of days, is they are reopening of the branches they'd closed other than for people who can't get into town here (the main Practice).  But they are still keeping the same restrictions otherwise.  

I need to have them run a check on my Whippet and I need for that to be done face to face!   She has a heart murmur which I need to have checked (not medicated yet) and she has what I suppose would be called a skin tag - it's a pink fleshy growth, small, on one of her front legs.  I'd love to have that taken off.   Obviously I'm jumpy about her, having just lost Frankie.   She's decided not to eat anything but the small amount of tinned meat in her breakfast for the past couple of days.   Could be the weather but ............. I need her teeth checked.

I think all vets are still seeing dogs if necessary, it's just you that has to stay outside. our vets collects the dog from your car, takes them into the surgery and then phones you for the consult, then brings dog and any medication back out.

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> I think all vets are still seeing dogs if necessary, it's just you that has to stay outside. our vets collects the dog from your car, takes them into the surgery and then phones you for the consult, then brings dog and any medication back out.<br />

That is exactly what is happening at the vet hospital that I use.  I recently had an oldie with pancreatitis, and although it was horrible not going in with her, I can't fault the treatment I received.  They phoned with regular updates while Amber was in the hospital.

Ours are doing the same.  They will see your animal if needed and then in our case chst in the car park or over the phone . I've done both as well as vet seeing the animal via video call if actually handling the animal wasnt needed

My dog is a bit ‘off’ at the moment. I’ve put it down to the heat. Can’t wait for the rain !!!
She desperately needs her teeth cleaning. I kept putting it off prior to lock down, so I can’t wait for them to open again.

My vet is still doing what's described here - they say it's what the Veterinary authorities suggest/require.   And it's what I had happen when Frankie had a haematoma just as the lockdown began.   They took him in from the car, drained it and returned him to me outside.

I could do this with Teazel but I really do need a face to face chat......

Teazel has eaten up her tea but ditto with the RAIN please - as long as the tap can be turned off again!!

My vet is allowing people in wearing PPE.

In answer to my own question I found this link to what /how vets are being advised going forward -

https://www.bva.co.uk/media/3500/bva-updated-guidance-for-veterinary-practices-on-working-safely-during-covid-19-final-28-may-2020.pdf

What bothers me is the fact it's seems the BVA is suggesting our vet/client relationship may never be 'normal' as in as it was before

I think we will see a lot of thing chamge from what we had as normal before and we will get used to those changes.i am sure our relationships with out vets will be just as good perhaps a bit different going forward
Some will at the moment be guesswork
noone really knows when covid 19 reductions  will allow be safe to drop social distancing or wearing types of ppe depending on the situation and go back to what we all took as normal behaviour  hopefully some point in the not to distant it will be safe again
Some things we will have learned to the good.  for example and vets could be included that options of telephone consults have become more useful both with video and without. At some point face to face will be considered safe again just cant rush these things
I can see hospital and doctors using that method more and probably vets as well
At the moment we need to wait and see ,something I am particularly bad at :)
As captain mannering said for.those who remember him dont panic ! :)

Just read it through again and it looks pretty reasonable and in line with many other things we are having to get used .different but not impossible and I am sire of people have particularly difficulties they will be surmountable while keeping everyone safe

The vets have started to waken up.  At the beginning of March my vet was supposed to get some shampoo for my dog.  There had been a run on the shampoo but they would let me know when it was in. Now the beginning of June they have got the shampoo even though it took my groomer having to telephone them.  Too late now I have made my own arrangements.

My vets are the same.  You sit in the car until the vet comes to collect the dog and then you have a discussion about dog's problems etc.  Vet them bears dog off for treatment etc and brings him or her back afterwards.  Seems to work quite well but it's not the same as having a more relaxed discussion as you would have done in the consulting room.  I do hope this is not the start of a new regime!!  I do wonder if vets may not be so gentle with injections/pills when the owner is absent.....!

One thing -more relaxed about paying the (rather large) bills as one is allowed to go home and pay over the phone!!!

I have to reply to you about vets being gentle.  I had to change vets because the one I was with was forever having locums in. My dog is gentle, sweet but not well.  She was having weekly injections.  This one locum jabbed her so hard that she screamed.  Obviously I made a scene.  I changed vets and have never ever left her side again.  Sometimes now if anyone touches that side, even me, she can turn to snap.  He did the injection in the side though the others did it gently in the neck area by holding the skin.

> This one locum jabbed her so hard that she screamed.

That's terrible and is something very few dogs would forget re going to a vet. 

Since moving across country years ago now and having to leave my super vet back up East, I'd been through quite a number of vet practices down here before I seem to have found one, with a vet I felt I could actually work with.  One vet, on taking my clearly sick hound in to be pts, asked what I was there for (not to have her nails clipped clearly) and then proceeded to tell us how hard it was to get a Basset vein up.  At that point I had to leave the office or I swear I'd have hit him.  My husband stayed with her but later told me that vet had gone in via her jugular.  I was totally shocked, to say nothing of being mega upset.  We never went back there.   Another vet in another practice, with another hound who was having repeated UTIs and was scanned which showed nothing, refused to x-ray saying scanning was enough.  It was only when the Senior Partner finally arrived on the scene, and did x-rays, that secondaries were found in her chest cavity and we had to let her go.  I'd gone for a second opinion which they knew about (and was why the Senior Partner appeared) and had phoned my vet up East about what was going on (she said she'd have opened her up by then!!).  All pretty disgusting to say the least, and neither vet was a locum/newly qualified either.

I have tried to get the same vet each time now and he loved Frankie/Bassets too, which helped.  I have to say the other 3 vets there, who I have used on occasion, are all good too much as I find it hard to understand what their Italian vet is saying

I am going to have to get Teazel checked sooner rather than later as she's now refusing her breakfast more often than eating up.  She can lose some weight, but at this rate, will be going rib thin.   I have no idea what's going on because it's now some weeks since we lost Franks and she had been eating up ok.

MamaBas- whippets are sensitive souls as you know.. if she hasn't got a delicate belly try her with a tin of wet cat food- it tastes & smells a lot better then dog food and may encourage her

Weimed.  She's now begging for bits from our lunch (chicken).... and I'm NOT giving in.   She needs to get the message that snacking all day isn't going to happen unless she eats her 'proper' food   She picked out the small amount of tinned Chappie from her breakfast this am.... but then walked away.   Her stools are fine btw.   I'm just hoping she's not decided she doesn't like the Harringtons as I have a 2kg bag + a hardly started one - the second bought as I wasn't sure how fast she'd go through this new food.   She has eaten through the first 2 kg bag.    Perhaps she doesn't like their Grain Free salmon and potato   Another thought is she has no competition at mealtimes now, even if Frankie had his food in the kitchen and she had her's in the living room, on one of the beds to raise the bowl a bit.

I've never been able to read her from day one really..... she's my 'she's not a Basset'

lack of competition is an issue...  my old weimaraner went through a phase of refusing her dry food--- till the day she watched the vaccum cleaner 'eat it'  !  only had to show her the cleaner after that and she ate quick! 
bit mean but it did work lol.

current whippet pup can be a bit nice mouthed too but she can't do hunger strike long so self limiting.

> my old weimaraner went through a phase of refusing her dry food--- till the day she watched the vaccum cleaner 'eat it'  !  only had to show her the cleaner after that and she ate quick!  <br />bit mean but it did work lol.

Now there's a thought