Going to the Vets

As you'd probably be aware, one of the first things that has to be taken care of after adopting an animal is the locating of the nearest vet facility and, in my case, taking Jasper for a final booster shot (and also to get his nails trimmed). Whilst not the nearest vet to me, i chose to take him to a surgery high up on Meeting Street - as the lady in the pet store had heard many good things about it. Having given them a call, and found out that they don't do appointments as such but deal with 'walk-ins' (it's been that long since i was at a vet in the UK, that i couldn't tell you if they did that or not), so i duly arranged my experiments to give me a suitable length of time to take Jasper there and back, and with a reasonable amount of waiting time in between.

The first thing that struck me about the place was the amount of dogs there - it seems that they are far more the preferred animal of choice in Charleston. Of the 9 people in the waiting room over the time i was there, all of them had dogs apart from me. Naturally, Jasper was immensely curious as to what was going on with all the whimpering and stuff, and spent a lot of time peeking out of his carrying case. Anyhow, the time came and we went through to the back. The main impression i got was that this was definitely being run as a business, there was an immense air of efficiency and speed of getting through a lot of patients (indeed, all the consulting rooms were adjacent to one major room at the back so the vet could go between them quickly and easily. What the vet, himself, may have lacked in the personal touch, his nurses/assistants certainly carried in spades so the balance was fine. And more importantly, the price was reasonable indeed. Jasper was very well-behaved, and didn't meow or get overly agitated once. A good result all round.