Trumpet
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I've got my eye on a little robin.
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Stafford shops opening - Turning into a boom town?
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Glam
Mad Cat Woman
Reliant?
Tilly
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Store detective is on holiday
staffordjas
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We never insured our rescue dog, who turned out to be pregnant when we first saved her from being PTS after her 7 days in kennels , and ended up soon after being spayed with only 3 legs. Cost us a fortune on vets bills over the 16 years we had her, and we must have helped Donnachie & Townley to build their business up immensely.
They were great though at keeping the costs down more than they would have been , purely for the fact we had rescued her and ended up forking out so much soon after getting her. They knocked their consultation fees off quite a few visits .
(Did think in hindsight that we should have taken it out, but I doubt any insurance would have paid out as she had so many problems from the start. )
Well....that's my dream gone for me coming into lots of money and buying the old Lloyds bank to turn into a hotel and bar....
Thehooperman
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Where are you going to get the foil topped glass milk bottles to feed him from?
rudie111
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Put your heating on!
Tumble weed
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Amber taverns have been given the go ahead to transform the old DP's and Burton's into their new bar. Expect work to start in the next few weeks.
I believe the front of the unit is also to be replaced.
I believe the front of the unit is also to be replaced.
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PeterD
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Well, our dog, who has since died was on lifelong medication, and lots of it, and as this illness presented itself within the first 2 weeks of having him, the insurance sadly didnt cover it. Park House displayed great care with our dog and did a great job but we sourced the drugs elsewhere and only required the repeat prescription. There was 3 sets of drugs but when asked if they could combine them, they said no. We found that Island Vets would and so we moved our dog to Island Vets. No acrimony, we thanked Park House for their care and registered my dog with a different practice.
This is where it got a little tetchy. Park House wouldnt and didnt send the records over for our dog, and then one evening we had a call, as we had moved one dog, they felt it would be better that we moved our cat and elderly dog as well. An elderly dog that had fairly complex issues, that had been under their care for many years and was a regular visitor to Park House. We had been struck off so to speak.
So that was that, in the last few years Island Vets look after my pets, and they have shown great compassion when I lost one dog prematurely and the elderly dog at the end of his life. Ben was well within his rights to not combine prescriptions, but I felt it was mean and vindictive to strike off an elderly dog with fairly complex issues that had been under his care for many years.
staffordjas
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That brings back memories of my parents milk bottles sitting on the doorstep, with the foil tops sitting on top of about an inch of milky ice lolly in the winter (complete with birds tucking in)
Central heating on the blink?
Thehooperman
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Are you referring to any particular lady here?
basil
don't mention the blinds
And sparrows like bread.....
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
How crap is that?
I'll give them a wide birth if I ever need to change vets.
When my previous dog became chronically ill and needed to go to the vets most weeks for monitoring etc, they waived all the consultation fees because she'd been with them for 12 years and were so fond of her. Mind, I have been using the same vets for 30 years.
WHarris
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On the subject of vets I have used Shires Vets for a while and when they opened up a Stafford branch I moved sites, I have found them very helpful and generally good although if the traffic is bad on beaconside it means being sat in a car with upset dogs for longer than needed.
