The RCVS sinks to a new low.
The
RCVS is now launched an all out attack upon the organization that has done more
to improve the veterinary care and husbandry of small animals in the eighteen
years since it was founded that the
veterinary profession has done since it was founded. Vedra Stanley Spatcher has done this in the
teeth of vicious and persistent opposition of the RCVS, which has done all that
it can to stop her work.
The
reason is of course because this wonderful State registered charity is showing
this RCVS for what it is, a vet’s protection organization and nothing else.
Well, I think they may come a cropper on this one by their plan to involve the
trading standards. I made a compliant to the trading standards organization
some time ago about yet one more incompetent vet and I was informed that it has
no power whatsoever to get involved in matters veterinary. Right, if they take
up this case then I want to know why the change of policy.
The
RCVS is totally without principle or ethical standards and its only purpose is
to protect the monopoly that it has over veterinary care this country. The pain
and suffering that so many of its members have inflicted upon animals and gross
over charging of their owners is a national disgrace.
I
am appealing to all friends of mine and readers of my books to combine and make
a joint effort to put an end to this appalling organization’s vindictiveness
towards anyone who dares to express an opinion on matter veterinary that has
not got the letters RCVS after their names. It is because of the totally closed
minds of these people that they stay way behind anyone who has been trained at
the CCT when it come to the diagnosis and treatment of small animals.
There
are a few open minded vets, I happen to have one, but she is as rare as hen’s
teeth. It’s time the RCVS was made to
make and effort to behave in a responsible manner so lets all combine, get in
touch with our MPs and put and end to the suffering and the rip off charging of
this profession is guilty of.
P.
Gurney Feb 2006
If anything they are
getting worse.
These
are the thoughts of a vet, a so called expert in guinea pig care, that she
passed onto other vets in a lecture.
It is against the law to trim guinea pigs teeth
without anaesthetics. Hmm, well, I know at least ten who do it very
successfully and I have been doing it with my own guinea pigs for eighteen
years now. No of course they didn’t learn this excellent, and far more
effective and safe technique from any veterinary college. They are that rarity,
an open minded vet who asked people trained by the CCT how it was done.
The
lower jaw movement of a guinea pig is backwards and forwards not side to side.
Oh dear, I have got it wrong all these years for after I have trimmed teeth the
number one sign that things are back to rights is the side to side movement that they have been
used to for the past million and god knows how many years. Remember folks, this
is a vet who has spent five years at a veterinary college who doesn’t even know
the correct jaw movements of a guinea pig.
All disease in guineas stems from either a lack of
vitamin c or stress. Oh dear oh dear, the same old story but it is fiction dear
readers, a utter fiction.
If a guinea pig is fed on Gerty guinea pig it doesn’t
need vegetable matter because there is sufficient vitamin C in Gerty. I
wouldn’t dream of feeding any of my guinea pigs that over hyped and expensive
food and though the one I use has vitamin C in it, this is not sufficient for
the needs of a guinea pig.
Am I surprised at the poverty of mind of this vet,
this expert on guinea pigs, not at all, only if she had got anything right
would my jaw have dropped open in amazement.
Oh, and just for the record, if any vets get up on
their high horse and tells you that it is against the law to diagnose and treat
your own animals, tell them to take a hike then give their name to Johnson and
Johnson or Bob Martins, who have millions of pounds invested into medicine that
are aimed at the DIY owners. Or perhaps the owners should be reported to the
RCVS for breaking the law!!!!!!!
Time and time again I get one of these airheads
standing up on their hind legs and telling me that only a vet can diagnose and
treat animals. Only the veterinary profession could produce cretins like this
who seem to think
that they have the exclusive right to knowledge. When
it comes to guinea pigs, thank goodness we have all learnt the hard lesson of
risking the average vet to get their incompetent hands on our animals.
As I have said before, I have a brilliant vet who
respect my opinions as much as I respect hers but sadly, in the main, vets in
general are the most arrogant, closed minded group of people I have ever come across in my life.
Peter Gurney
8.10.05
How dare I
have an opinion!
Oh dear, oh
dear, I do seem to have a rattled a few veterinary cages with a letter that I
wrote in response to one by a vet in the Veterinary Times. It was probably the
longest whinge I have ever read so I felt I had to respond.
One vet
wrote to me, and as per usual, did not address a single issue I raised took the
attitude of ‘How dare I have an opinion, and what’s more, express it in the
Veterinary Times.’ I pointed out that at least the Veterinary Times was grown
up enough to allow freedom of speech.
They really
must learn to take genuine criticism
and not throw their rattles out of the pram when anyone who does not share the
view of the forelock tugging TV vet programmes. I have to deal with their
mistakes on a daily basis and until that joke ‘The Royal College of Veterinary’
Surgeons, get’s it acts together a starts properly regulating its members, the
suffering of many animals and rip off of their owners will continue.
Peter
Gurney 20th March, 2004
Met the vet is at it
again.
This so called
qualified vet, who has publicly stated that the correct treatment for pre molar
and molar problems in piggies is euthanasia, apparently doesn’t know how to
cure the scabs around the lips of guinea pigs that are usually caused by eating
acidic food. We, by that I mean anyone who is properly trained in the
veterinary care of guinea pigs by the CCT (The Cambridge Cavy Trust), have been curing this very common problem for
years.
I believe the Trust uses several different medications
but I stick to the old fashioned, tried and tested, Gentian Violet. I have
never failed to cure the problem with this and there has never been any cancer
cases resulting from it, despite the claim made by the many regulatory
authorities that gentian violet is carcinogenic.
I have come to the conclusion that when the regulatory
authorities claim a medicine has dangerous side effects, which has proven safe
and effective for years and years, what it is really saying is that it is not a
prescription medicine so the profession does not have control over it,
ipsofacto it is no good. Hey, we can’t have the monopoly of the R.C.V.S. (Royal
College of Veterinary Surgeons) broken for the sake of the health of guinea
pigs!
There should be a health warning on Met the vet’s
surgery door for she is lethal to guinea pigs. Trouble is she won’t come out
and prove her case and the editor of Cavies continues to print her dangerously
misleading advice. Avoid this woman at all costs if you care for the lives of
your guineas.
For correct treatment of mouth scabs check out my
health section on the Winking cavy store site or on mine as soon as it is up
and running.
Peter
Gurney 2nd July, 2002
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