Hello and Welcome from Dr. Busby!
I am the fourth veterinarian in a family of veterinarians that stretches over a period of 100 years. My practice is going into its 41st year. In a nut shell I have grown so disillusioned with my profession’s hyping of unnecessary and sometimes even risky procedures for dogs and cats for the shameful purpose of simply increasing their clinic’s bottom line that I have written a book. Escalating costs of owning a pet is rapidly making ownership of companion animals a very costly enterprise and placing it out of the reach of more and more even middle class families. My book details in depth all the unnecessary medical procedures that pet owners are pressured into but can easily avoid with just a little inside knowledge. It also contains many common sense suggestions and ideas on pet care and ownership from a veterinarian who has personally owned and loved over a dozen dogs and cats in his lifetime.
November 27, 2007 at 9:04 pm
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January 11, 2008 at 2:22 am
What a wonderful book. I recommend it to all my new puppy owners. Thank you for writing this excellent and informative veterinary coverage.
January 30, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Hi! Dr.Busby,
I have purchased & read your book, for 20yrs. I have worked for vets. I have seen first hand how nothing matters but the bottom line.I’ve worked for a couple that weren’t that way, but for the most part it’s that almighty dollar. I’ve be telling people for years how to save money just to have the vet tell them I’m crazy. Whats funny, I’ve worked as a tech. longer than they have been on the job. I know i’m Not a vet. but also I wasn’t deaf & blind All those years.It was my passion to learn & I bet none of them {the vets.} spent 20yrs. learning before they felt they were God, as most of them did. I’m so happy now I have your book so they can hear it from you.
From an Ol’ Country Girl keep up the good work!
~Mary Ann~
February 10, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Hi’ I have ordered your book and am waiting for it to be delivered, I have been asking questions about vacinations, and have always been given the run around.
My eskimo has been vac. with all that he needed as a pup, and now two years later, the vet thinks that he needs another shot for distemper and parvo, isn’t distemper a disease of the very young? and I know that parvo is a very dangerous disease, so you can see that I am looking forward to reading your book. Its not so much the cost that I am concerned about, but the result of over vactinating.
Thank you ahead of time for your book, as all I want, is to do the best for my best friend.
March 2, 2008 at 10:34 pm
I have received and already read your book, and was so happy to finaly have the answers to the many questions, that I have had about vacinations, thank you so much for your honest and forthrite book.I have decided to put both my dogs on a three year vac. program, and then after 6 years they will receive no more.
I think that this will be a good program for them, as they are often with other dogs,at the dog park, and have a bad habit of eating poocycles in the winter.
Again I thank you for your website.
April 27, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Always felt my (now) 4 inside cats never needed yearly vaccinations. You’re book proved me right. Spay/neuter and rabies are the only times these guys see the DVM.
When old age and declining quality of life become a burden the visiting vet euthanises them at home.
April 29, 2008 at 2:54 am
loved your book.
May 19, 2008 at 3:32 am
I am so thrilled to have found this information. We have believed this way for our pets, along with raw food and such. This is the way veterinary practices should be. Our Yorkie has a visit tomorrow with the vet and she was going to test her for a one year rabies to see if there’s still vaccine left. Not anymore. thanks so much. kacy
May 19, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Hello. Let me begin by thanking you for taking time to express your feelings and concerns of how much your fellow veterinarians take advantage of loving pet owners who will do anything to keep their pets happy, healthy and safe. I have not read your book, but intend to give it a good long look. One important thing for everyone to remember is that before we decide NOT to yearly vacinate our animals, we need to familiarize ourselves with our county and state laws. We may agree that yearly vacinations are unnecessary, but county and state laws may say differently. Without adhering to county and state laws, fines that can be imposed could greatly outweigh the costs of “unnecesary” vacinations. Again, thank you for all your advice.