Thanks, Cindy, I'm in Alabama, and I know there are good vets.  The thing is 
they specialize in something.  Like one vet specializes in teeth, anything else 
he lets his girls handle.  A couple are in it totally for a paycheck, which 
isn't a bad idea in itself but there are live creatures involved here.  I do 
all the research and tell my vet what to do.  When I had one puppy get kennel 
cough last year, I panicked.  I went to the vet.  $100 to walk in the door at 8 
AM.  He gave me something that made my puppy bleed from it's stomach, it was 
pooping pure blood.  I checked around with some people who have kennels and 
called my vet and told the lady who answered the phone, I want a bottle of 
Doxycycline and I'll be down there in a few minutes.  I never went through what 
he had given me and how it didn't work etc.  I was nice, paid my $20 more 
dollars and got the right stuff.  Knocked out the cough in a day, no bleeding, 
no problems.  but you really have to know your dog and know
 what your problem is before you go or you are at their mercy.  Some vets are 
graduating without a degree, that means they flunked out of college, and are 
getting a copy of degree for $25 off the internet putting it on the wall and 
opening a busines.  They have loads of patients, and some may be good vets, 
some may have good common sense and be better vets than trained vets, but it 
still means we have to be in control of the situation and don't trust just 
everybody. 
  Jeannine

Cindy Sparks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  Yeah it does take time to trust them.Plus I always come home and look up 
whatever they say on the internet and I ask everyone I know so the next time I 
go in I am armed with info. For instance I learned way more from my diabetic 
dog 

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