What is a Homepathic Vet?

Ive seen in mentioned in threads, but a search didnt bring up anything conclusive.

How do they differ in the way they practice to conventional vets?

Do you really want to know?

They are a vet that uses more natural means to try to keep a pet well instead of just treating an illness. The extent that a vet does this differs there really is no standard for the title. They tend to know more about nutrition especially things like homemade and raw diets and they also tend to do less re-vaccinating. Some of them also use things like accupuncture and herbs also some conventional vets also use these things. They also tend to be much more expensive than conventional vets. I looked into using one and he charged $60.00 per 15 minute or fraction of 15 minute segment of his time and this was in addition to an office call charge. From what I've heard this is one of the more reasonably priced ones.

Originally Posted by Denice

They are a vet that uses more natural means to try to keep a pet well instead of just treating an illness. The extent that a vet does this differs there really is no standard for the title. They tend to know more about nutrition especially things like homemade and raw diets and they also tend to do less re-vaccinating. Some of them also use things like accupuncture and herbs also some conventional vets also use these things. They also tend to be much more expensive than conventional vets. I looked into using one and he charged $60.00 per 15 minute or fraction of 15 minute segment of his time and this was in addition to an office call charge. From what I've heard this is one of the more reasonably priced ones.

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except my vet does both and is about 30% less expensive then other vets around

And chiropractic work.

They also do a lot more with illness prevention but when something happens they often return to conventional methods for treatment (or a combination of homeopathic and conventional as most homeopathic remedies do not hinder the use of antibiotics and such).

My at-home vet is also kind of a mixture of conventional and homeopathic (she's part of a practice though, so I guess the prices are kind of set in stone)... she will try homeopathic healing methods before jumping right to drugs and/or surgeries - for example: last year my black lab was really spooked of our next door neighbor's yard. Now, my dog has been going over to his yard almost every single day since we brough her home at 8 weeks old (she just turned 12 years) and his dog is her "boyfriend" - 2 years her elder... she started climbing over/digging under his fence and showing up at our front door and not wanting to go over there anymore. So we took her in to see Dr. Kathy and she had us go to a health food store and get a certain herbal oil (can't remember the name off hand) to put in her food to calm her down and it worked like a charm and saved us tons on meds and procedures - she hasnt been spooked since....

So, I like having a vet that practices a mix of the two... not really more expensive than a conventional vet yet opened-minded, cost-concious (sp? haha), and not knife and med happy....

I think any good vet should be a mix of both. The vet I just saw for Puppy gave him meds for the worms, but for all the other little problems, we talked about cat psycology and what kind of things I could do to help him. He said gave lots of suggestions of things to try and symptoms to look for before we decided to do anything more drastic.

And as far as I'm concerned, this goes human doctors too, not just vets.