Same Dog, Different Owner

[jtuck004]

62. I should add two important things to this.

1) Respect for everyone involved is paramount. As you want to be treated, equal, however you want to conceptualize it. You know what it looks like, I bet.

2) I pay they vets their cost for a replacement vet for their office that day. The task force asks for volunteers and gives them an honorarium. Mostly semantics, I think. Maybe taxes. But along with my observation that this only works when there is mutual respect between all parties and for their fur kids, is my insistence that you NEVER, EVER ask a vet to do anything for free. That's ridiculous. They have from a half million up plus many years of their lives out of pocket to put that clinic on the corner, and they deserve their compensation.

We also provide THEIR protocol of drugs for the patients, good German instruments, decent and portable facilities for the surgery, mats for their feet, some of the cutest kids, along with school counselors, a fire department chief, or maybe a graphic designer assisting during the surgery, with an experienced tech or assistant doing the pre-op. (Usually there is another one or two floating. Depends on the day.) And someone to follow up with all the patients that night or the next day. It's about respect