Sunday, 05 July 2009
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This is my plan.
So I've decided I want to start a low-cost travelling vaccine/basic preventative care clinic.
Nothing fancy - not even rabies vaccines, since I'm not a licensed vet (obviously). But I'd do stuff like toenail trims, distemper/parvo/bordatella vaccines for dogs, panleukopenia/herp/chlamydia/etc vaccines for cats, maybe do flea treatments, deworming, etc.And I'd do it like one or two days a month, clear the whole day and schedule appointments in the off time, show up to people's houses with a cooler of vaccine and a bag of handy-dandy muzzles and syringes and whatnot, have little vaccine certificate cards printed up and fill them out for everyone...
I don't know. I want to make it impossibly easy for people to have basic veterinary care. People are going to be breeding for the wrong reasons, people who probably shouldn't own dogs and cats will still own them, and if I show up at their house and perform basic services for less than half the cost of an actual veterinarian, with none of the bullshit? Score one for public pet health.
And sure, I'd leave plenty of pamphlets on low-cost spay and neuter clinics, and the importance of regular vet visits, etcetera, but most of these people probably won't care...and that's okay for now. That's not going to be my initial goal. Eventually it'd be a great goal, but to start? I just want people to trust me, to be like hey, the vaccine lady is coming! You know. Things like that.So, it won't be terribly expensive to start up, even hardly charging for things I'd make a marginal profit (enough to pay for gas, future supplies, and maybe a couple meals for me!) and I think it'd be fulfilling and also beneficial to the public. Make sense? I hope so. Going to call the OVMA and verify the legality in a few days, but I think it'd be really wonderful.
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Comments (5)
That sounds wonderful!!! I know that we do all of our shots ourselves, but it would be awesome to have someone come who knows what they are doing and do it for a small fee. I would love to do something like a grooming business or something here in my house, but I don't know the first thing about grooming. haha
This sounds like an awesome idea. I can't drive, so I'd hire your services for sure if I didn't do titers (and if I lived in your area). As it is I do titers for everything, the only thing I vaccinate for is rabies and kennel cough (and of course anything that shows up low on titers but that hasn't happened yet). Can you do titers if you're not licensed? I guess even if you could the equipment to read the blood would be expensive though, huh? You could also answer questions, and offer basic training and behavior modification/conditioning advice since you'd be in the client's house and can see the actual environment that they and the pet are working with.
Hi there, I just came across your site and wanted to say that, personally, think this is a fantastic idea. My boyfriend and I recently got a 10 week old Beagle puppy, and she's adorable. We had her for less than 48 hours when we found out she had parvo and had a 50% chance of survival. She only weighed 2.2 pounds and was barely over 10 weeks. She overcame it, but it was the breeders fault whom we got the puppy from. We felt she was very irresponsible because even after we notified her she made no acknowledgment as to it being her fault for not caring for the puppies. Anyway, maybe if you got this going it could spare people from having to lose or possibly lose a new pet, not to mention high vet bills! Good for you, I hope everything works out :)
If you're planning on making it an actual legal business be prepared to fork over anywhere between 200-1000 bucks for the licensing.
But otherwise. good luck!
Hope you doing ok.
I wish you well with your desire to help animals, especially dogs. I just hate seeing the TV shows about animal abuse. I am surprised by the patience of the officers as they try to persuade the owners to treat their animals with some compassion and routine care.
When we got our first Pomeranian the former owner was a vet. That Pom had been abused and the vet's wife did not want it anymore due to lots of hair that needed brushing. The vet came over to our house and gave 'Daisy' her shots. I was puzzled. He was a vet, but he did not give it her shots until my wife decided to accept her as a gift. It turns out that Daisy was the cutest dog that we ever had, and it was sad when we had of put her down. Then we found Rusty at a dog pound. I was shocked--a Pom in a Pound!!!
I commend you for you very worthwhile goals.
blessings
frank