If I’d been stabbed at 11.15 am yesterday morning, a Bank Holiday in the UK, I would have gone to A&E and, after triage, eventually been treated. I’m not complaining; it’s a “free” service always under pressure.
Suppose you are a beagle bitten on his tummy at 11.15 am yesterday? Bertie was being examined by a vet at 12.05 pm, on the pavement as owners are not allowed in the Medivet premises. The formalities were concluded briskly. Robert signed a “it’s not our fault if anything goes wrong” form that had too much small print to read. It did draw attention, by circling in biro, the likely cost. Then I paid a deposit and Bertie was taken under the competent wings of Medivet; open 24 hours including holidays.
I’m showing you the bill not because it’s expensive but because it shows how professional vets are these days. Bertie was sleepy, as sedation wore off, and confused yesterday evening. Today he is buoyant on a diet of antibiotics and painkillers. I took him round the cemetery this morning and he’s almost his old self. For once I was pleased when he tugged on his lead. Beagles are a bounce-back breed.
RS wonders if yesterday’s post has had most comments and she is almost right; but Double Death on the Avon has eleven comments; written in August 2016 when this website was an even better kept secret than it is now.
Wonderful news Christopher. X
Well done, Bertie and carers. And bank manager
Oh, Christopher, I’m so sorry Bertie had to go through that, but happy he’ll be okay. Vets can be expensive, to be sure, but they are definitely professional. I was so impressed with mine when Harry was ill. Best wishes to Bertie – and to you!
In the 1970s James Lees-Milne wrote a novel, ROUND THE CLOCK, at the end of which, somewhat incidentally to the plot, a dog is abducted. I once asked him if it had generated any fan mail. He told me he’d had letters from numerous readers concerned about the fate of the dog. It doesn’t surprise me that Bertie’s injury has elicited a record number of comments, I add my name to those expressing relief that he’s his old self.
A Te Deum Laudamus (perhaps using the setting from the Leopard) should be sung in one of the churches you support to celebrate the Recovery. Also to give thanks to the Veterinary profession for abstaining from charging you the full 5 figures you anticipated yesterday.
Oh gosh, when I was first employed in the City I had to prepare a contract to sell sugar belonging to the State of Queensland to a Korean sugar refiner. I omitted a nought and have now made it up by adding one. I meant four figures.
Arithmophobist.
We’re greatly relieved at this news xx
Very glad that the normally debonair Bertie has recovered. Who was the attacker?
Is Bertie claiming damages?
So glad to read that Bertie is “up & at ’em ” ….normal Beagle behaviour resumed thankfully. That vet bill was amazingly low for Bank Holiday treatment in London!!
Is the culprit’s owner doing the decent thing & paying up?
Raffles, one of our beagles, was minding her own business & on the lead, when a Ridgeback ran up and ripped half her ear off…no small quantity, given the length of their lugs! The owner rushed with us to the vets & paid the bill + flowers & chocolates for us.
Hopefully the lurcher’s owner is equally conscientious.