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Emergency! COVID-19 New Zealand and your Vets!

Hello all you wonderful horse, pet, and production animal owners out there!

Emergency Basis Only, or

#Don’tBreakYourVet !

Most of your veterinarians are still allowed to practice and will remain available to you and your beloved animals ON AN EMERGENCY BASIS ONLY.
We are willing to risk our own health (though we should all be wearing mask, gloves, etc.) for the health of your lovelies. It is, as you are no doubt aware, not without risk to us.
As the incubation period is so long and the symptoms so variable, what you think was a little “cold” could actually be a case of COVID-19. I don’t want it and have no desire to infect my family. I have a heart condition and it would not be in my best interest to catch the dratted virus.
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NO, not doing routine dentistry right now!
Please comply with your vets if they request you to wear a mask yourself and keep your distance if at all possible. If they want you to leave the animal with their staff while it is treated, or ask you to let them handle your horse themselves, please do so. We’re all under enough stress anyway, ALL people here. Maybe help get your horse into the stocks and let them work on the horses on their own. Please help them to help you and your animals.
I know all of my beyond-lovely clients will be happy do this for me.
HOWEVER….. 

What’s an Emergency?

Clearly it’s not been made obvious to some. Some of the phone calls I’ve received have…. been… interesting. Mostly from new clients… such as:
requests for:
… routine dentistry, (as the owner will be off work for the next few weeks), or
…doing a pre-purchase examination, (never truly an ER)
… routine vaccinations… especially overdue ones…
…any other sort of routine vet procedures you could have scheduled several months ago that you want done now that you have time at home from work…
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Clearly this didn’t happen overnight, but it sure looks like it needs help NOW.

Lockdown = QUARANTINE…

THIS LOCKDOWN IS MEANT TO BE A QUARANTINE, NOT A HOLIDAY! Enjoy it at home with your family, but don’t needlessly infect others!
They are the things you’d call us for on Saturday, Sunday, or a holiday, despite the emergency call fee, etc.
Things that could limit the lives of your horse or that if not treated now, will create pain and suffering for your beasties.
 

However… 

LET THIS NOT PREVENT YOU from calling us if you THINK it might be an emergency. Or if you’re not sure. Even a little. Personally, I am HAPPY to field phone calls and look at a photo you take with your phone.
 
If it’s a colic, laceration, lameness, respiratory difficulty, the old horse who’s suddenly come to the end of his tether, or anything else causing you and them any distress, etc., for god’s sake, PLEASE be sure to ring.
This might be a good guide….
 
If i get sick (or dead) from treating your non-emergency cases, I won’t be around to treat your beloved horse or other animal life-threatening emergencies.
 
The phone is your friend. 🙂 When it works. There’s always Facebook. xx
xx
L
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AAEP 2017

We had a great time exhibiting at AAEP in San Antonio, Texas in November 2017!

Thank you so much to Dr. Lynn Caldwell for helping us out with prep and in the booth throughout the show,

and to son Elliot for coming along to assist manning the booth.

A little break during setup

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Matthew and I sure appreciated the help, especially when it got busy! Thanks to AAEP for putting on such a great program and a great show! I made it to as many lectures as I could, thanks so much, guys!

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Great job, Matt!

Thanks to those of you who dropped by to see us and stayed awhile! Loved your questions and have taken on board all comments!

We had some very small visitors…

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And some bigger ones, but they were all very interested in the stocks! It was great to meet everyone! The view coming down the escalator was of our stocks, covered in fairy lights! Great idea, Lynn!

View from the escalator! Fairy lights!

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Sold quite a few books, with all the horsey people there!  My writing is… slightly horsey… 🙂  (I write historical fiction as Lizzi Tremayne… post injury… and I liked it so much, I kept going!)

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Elliot and I took advantage of the fact we could eat Mexican food again… and again… and again. Serious Mexican food is virtually nonexistent in NZ… I was so lucky Elliot, who spent the first half of the week alone with me, loves Tex-Mex as much as I do! Especially the little hole-in-the-walls where little to no English is spoken!  Did we eat it all week in Texas, and on the rest of the trip?   YES. Definitely.

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We stayed at the glorious old Menger Hotel across from the Alamo and had a celebratory dinner after AAEP was finished. That’s Matt on the far right. And one of my sons, Elliot, with me beside the tree at the Menger. The lovely lady on the right, Sara, the manager at the Menger restaurant, helped us with bits and pieces for our booth. Thank you, Sara!

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We took a celebratory drive with a new friend Shyann (on the left next to Matt), an accomplished young carriage driver for Lollipop Carriage Company, who LOVES her horses,

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AAEPand had a lovely Thanksgiving dinner in Texas. That’s Elliot beside me.

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Finally, we drove around… a LONG way around… showing the stocks and finally delivered them to their temporary home, en route to our new manufacturers. Thanks so much to Cliff and Lorie!!!

Looking forward to seeing you all next year at AAEP San Francisco 2018!

 

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Safety for vets, techs, owners and horses with Equi-Still Stocks

2018 NATM Compliance Achieved!

Our Equi-Still Portable Equine Stocks have received their compliance certificate from the National Association of Trailer Manufacturers (NATM) in the USA for 2018!

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It was a long haul, but the stringent requirements of the NATM compliance program means our Equi-Still Portable Equine Stocks should be compliant for registration in all fifty states! They had their compliance examination just before AAEP opened in San Antonio!

Great job from our NZ engineer and manufacturer. Thanks so much, Jeff!

As we’re not currently members of the NATM, we’re no longer allowed to display their logo, but if you’re interested in what the NATM is all about, just click here to see their website.

 

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We’ve Found Our USA Manufacturer!

Hello all!

We’ve found our manufacturer in the USA and they’re ready go get started! The stocks you may have seen at AAEP in San Antonio are currently with our new manufacturers to assist in their first build, then those stocks will be available for sale. They already manufacture the exquisite Tuffy Tilt Tables, so they can build our stocks.Made by our manufacturers

Thanks to those of you who expressed interest at the San Antonio American Association of Equine Practitioners Convention last November! I’ve just sent an email to everyone on our collected list. If you didn’t receive an email,

please contact me here

as some of AAEP’s details were incomplete and eleven emails were not present.

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