[Alpacasite] new vet

what i did for my basically horse vet is i bought him a copy of the vans
book and the veterinary book that steve hull recommended at his seminar
(steve?, anyone? what was that big book called?? ) and the fowler book. yes
that was expensive but not nearly as much money as my pacas cost or are
worth, i also gave him the name and phone number of a wonderful, helpful
camelid vet at the university of minnesota vet school(about 2.5-3 hours away
from me, too far in an emergency), just in case he needed to call
her.sometimes i wonder if he has read them yet, but at least i tried as much
as i could. we talk the whole time he's here, and i tell him what i learned
and he tells me what he learned, i feel we are learning together. just my
fyi, best of luck with yours, the other vet i tried, well, he just wasn't
interested in learning anything, since he "knew it all already", sounds like
your vet is at least interested. that's great. there is a veterinary
sponsored/presented seminar in minnesota next spring, i'm sure there are
seminars near you also including the one you mention in your post. i'll be
attending the minnesota one, with my vet.
good luck!
sandy kunath
www.glacialridgealpacas.com
http://www.alpacanation.com/farmsandbreeders/03_viewfarm.asp?name=12491

Message: 16
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:00:26 -0000
From: "gepp1" <alpacas@greystonemanor.biz>
Subject: We have a new vet and could use a little help

We've had significant problems getting an alpaca vet in our area.
All of our local vets have busy small animal practices and the one
vet we have that will work on alpacas has been harder and harder to
get out for ranch visits and is even hard to get scheduled for
office visits. Getting her out for an emergency is "cross your
fingers".

A new large animal vet has joined our local practice and has some
minimal experience with llamas. I'm asking the group to help me
encourage this new vet to learn more about alpacas. We're in the
process of trying to get her to attend a nearby 2 day vet symposium.

I've read many posts consisting of information from handouts and non-
copy-write protected material. If you have such material and are
willing to send me a copy, please reply privately by email (
gary@greystonemanor.biz ) and send it, (email if you have it
electronically). I'll screen for duplicates and collect it (and or
print the electronic formats) for delivery to our new vet.

If anyone has old copies or duplicates of copy-write protected
material, I'd like to hear about them. If I'm offered duplicates, I
will do an update post listing what is available and try to put the
donor and whoever wants it together.

Also if people have URLs (links) to non-copy-write protected
material that hey think would be useful for a new alpaca vet, I will
download it and put it on a disk for her.

Thanks,
May all of your cria be healthy, prize winners with 10+ pound
shearing weights,
Greystone Manor ( www.greystonemanor.biz)
Gary Epp
44656 Silver Spur Trail
Ahwahnee, CA 93601

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