Vetinerary care in the age of Covid

You go in, singly,  and make yourself animal known at the reception desk and give the registration number of your car, if you have one. (There is no appointment system.) Then you wait in your car (or in the covered walkway). Eventually a vet comes out and looks for you and finds out why you have come. Then she or he leads or carries  your pet to the treatment rooms while you wait. After a while vet comes out with pet and offers diagnosis and advice. You go back in to reception desk, collect medication, and pay (a lot).

This system seems to work well enough although you are not able to be with your animal while it is examined. I was simply taking Raki for a booster jab but I heard her yelp from outside. 

Earlier in the year we couldn't even enter the building and everyone had to shout out their full bank details in the car park, a golden opportunity for  con merchants perhaps.

The vet on the right, carrying the dog,  has been treating our animals for the past 26 years. We refer to him as Splendid, after the vet in One Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith.

"So Mr. Dearly rang up the Splendid Vet, who was delighted to be waked up and called out at nearly midnight on Christmas Eve."


 So far we haven't actually done that.


Collage of two pics.