Animal Welfare Professionals

Maybe I'm wrong. I hope I am but I don't feel like our DVM is very into being a shelter vet. I feel they just want the $$$. As a small, non profit animal shelter our funds are almost gone and we will be lucky to be open in a year. 

We get 30% off. They charge us for every office visit. $45 a pop. Even to get a health certificate. They won't let us buy meds in bulk for a discount from MWI as originally discussed. We are feeling nickled and dimed out of existence. We have to stay with them because of a contract due to us buying their old building (which they said they were going to give us in November and then they changed their mind) It's just been bad lately. 

We are planning a meeting with them. How does your vet help your shelter or rescue? I'd like to have lots of examples to take to them when we go. Thank you. 

It's not clear what kind of relationship you're referring to here. A shelter vet who works for a shelter wouldn't be charging money, they'd just be another employee. If this is a vet with their own practice who is providing discounted services for you, they can provide anything they want, or not. It's a donation of time and/or services. What a vet provides a rescue or shelter is up to you and them to work out amongst yourselves. There's no standard package or recommendations. 

It's a constant struggle now for nonprofits to find and retain vets who are willing to provide discounted or any services at all because there a huge nationwide vet shortage, and they simply don't have the bandwidth to provide free or low cost services. Or they don't want to because they can't even keep up with all the paying customers.