YOU KNOW YOU HAVE A GOOD RELATIONSHIP
WITH YOUR VET WHEN.....
- You have your own personal parking space marked "RESERVED - OTHERS WILL BE TOWED AWAY"
- You have your own chair in the waiting room.
- You get a 15% discount (even though it doesn't feel like it when you get the bill).
- When you are waiting and the clinic is busy, you help them answer the phone and find stuff.
- They offer you free Cokes (brand names - not the cheap stuff).
- You know where the coffee pot is and bring them cream and sugar when they are running low.
- You have the home phone number of all your vets and know the first names of all their families.
- They forget to put small ticket items on your bill and (when you remind them) they say
"OH JUST FORGET IT"
- They send you lots of referrals when people are looking for kittens.
- They call you when they have a question.
- You exchange ideas, new info, and latest on treatments, vaccines and diseases,
they make copies of articles you don't have.
- You know the receptionist's husband's/boyfriend's name and what he does.
- The vet brings their mother-in-law over to see a new litter of kittens.
- At least two vets in the practice have a Maine Coon from you. Both have allergic spouses
and never intended to be owned by a kitten, but .....
- Your vet recognises nose bumps (but thinks they are cute) and remembers to check for
tail kinks.
- If it is going to be a long appointment, they expect you to bring chocolate.
- They don't take your cat away for the blood-and-guts stuff anymore - they know you
aren't going to faint if they do it in front of you.
- The vet no longer calls them "ginger tiger stripes" but red mackerel tabbies.
- At F.A. Cup/Grand National time you are in the pool at the practice.
- The vet stops by on Christmas morning, saying it is to check on the kitten who is sniffling,
but it's REALLY to drop off the chocolate truffle cake made for you!
- The vet uses really big words, and thinks you understand them.
- You have all the secret after-hours phone numbers JUST IN CASE you need help and the
practice answering machine is on.
- Your vet has your phone number on speed-dial - even in the car!
- Your vet calls you from their sickbed in the hospital, to check on your queen's
latest delivery!
