What is the status of veterinary care in Thailand? I know that standards of animal care are a little different there than in the US/Aus/western Europe, but are there many good vets? Will they make house calls? (I'm probably not going to have a car for a while). What can I expect to pay for a visit?

The vets are good from what little I know and the general treatment of animals in Asia does not influence veterinary care as far as I know.

Same as dentists, most or all recieve adequate training overseas.

Vet's are generaly poor to very poor here. Mabye in BKK it would be a bit better but dont hold you breath. Most will come to you (in my experiance as taking a cow to the vet is a bit difficult ) as to the cost for "pet" care have'nt a clue but general vet bills are'nt very high. What sort of thing are you looking for?

Good care can be gotten in Bangkok but definitely not in the countryside. (I can't say re Phuket or Chiang Mai). If you're in the countryside, expect to have to go to Bamgkok for anything more than routine immunization. Costs less than in the West.

there was another thread on this topic a while back that listed a number of vets, try searching the forum

I believe that Chula has either a free or very low cost vet clinic - the attending docs/nurses are being trained there, and I've read that the vet care is excellent. The biggest problem is a very long wait...

I used to go to a vets near Charansantitwong 41 afew years ago. They were pretty good but didnt speak English. Didn't matter though as my ex was Thai and could tell them what was wrong with the dog. They knew what they were doing.

Not quite sure where "here" is but here in Chiang Mai I cannot recommend the vetinary service run by Chiang Mai University highly enough.
It is called the small animal hospital I understand because of the success of this venture they are opening a large animal hospital, good luck to them.

They are truly superb and they speak English, they have an emergency service open 24 hours a day the prices are marked up so no dual pricing (that deserves praise in its self) and those prices are very reasonable.

Try this for size, we have a Shiz Tui bitch that gave birth to two pups when they were about a week old my missus thought that they were not well, so off the vets.

The vet took a look and said not to worry they were OK and no charge, not sure about home visits but unless you are out in the sticks you can get transport very easily here.

Are there any good vets in the Phuket area and slightly north on the Andaman coast, Universities etc?

Here is Nakorn Sawan mate. I deal with vet's on a very regular basis, but they are "farm"vets for small animals/pets I would'nt really know.

Thailand tends to follow the American system
Doctors don't make house calls. I very much doubt that vets do either.
You can try asking.

Costs are very low.
The innoculations for my cat cost 180 baht.

Thanks for the info; I'll have to write that down and put it somewhere. The reason I asked about house calls is that I might not have a car right away, but it's good to know that I probably won't have to buy my US veterinarian a plane ticket every year to come do checkups. (Hey, I spend more than that in vet bills annually anyway, so it's not that crazy.)

[Hi do you happen to know of any expat vets in BKK? or any thai practices where they speak a lot of english? im looking for vet work in BKK and would really like to speak to a vet there about it...

Benjamin dear, wonderful name, please contact our dear BAMBI on TV

She speaks perfect English and is one of the best Vets around

Folks ... there is a whole Pets and Vets subforum


I love my Vet here .... he isn't very fluent in English but we get by just fine!

There are a couple of animal hospitals that are excellent (PS ... yes Vets will make house calls ... mine made sure to give me his mobile number after our second visit!)

We use the Ao Chalong Animal Hospital. It is located about 500 metres south of Wat Chalong in a big, yellow building. It is run by a couple who are both vets. Dr. Anucha and his wife are very good. They also have another vet who works with them on the weekends. They do do house calls but as they are quite busy, these tend to be in the evenings.

Dr. Anucha speaks good English, his wife not so much. Nice folks, good vets.

Hi There,

There are good and less good vet's in Chiang Mai. But I suppose that's everywhere the same.

I have good experiences with two veterinary clinics:

1. Dr. Nook Animal Hospital on the Chang Klan road close to the Ayuthaya Bank Tel.:053 - 818905
2. Ban Mha ka Meaw Animal Hospital along the Mahidol Rd, next to Chiang Mai Land entrance. Tel. : 053 204215

They all speak good English, have excellent service and do house-visits. Most of my customers have one of them as their veterinary surgeon.
They are also human, though, and sometimes they may not know immediately (but will certainly look it up and do their utter best to cure the disease), or very rare make initially a wrong diagnosis.

They are regular vet's, meaning they will treat symptoms with antibiotics, corticosteroids, etc.. I'm in favor of a holistic approach: looking what really causes the problem and try to cure that with regular, homeopathic or herbal med's or both.

With Friendly Greetings,
Nienke
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Here's a list of vet places in Bangkok... I always took my cat to Thonglor in the 90s.

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Thanks for the list Skylar.

Fully agree with the poster who said "poor to very poor". Dont look for Western or American standards, they certainly don't exist -- not in Pattaya anyhow.

There are some helpful vets on Thaivisa, but generally my experience is the standard is terrible. But on the other hand, they are cheap.

Also, don't expect the vetinerary nurses to know anything, it is not like parts of Europe where they train rigorously and are highly skilled. Here, they don't even wash their hands between 'patients'( neither do the vets I have come into contact with). And they ALWAYS give antibiotics, or try to, for anything, no matter how trivial.

Here is an example -- I took in an 8 week stray dog who wandered into our garden, as big as a mouse at that time, into a vets we use here. The vet was helpful as he could be, and gave his opinion. The vet nurse started to cut the puppy toenails while I was holding her. The dog was basically dying of starvation. She screamed, blood spurted. And this is the nurse. But probably the pay is low, so what can you expect? Not dedication it would seem.

Standards of cleanliness are zero.

Unfortunately, we have no western influenced vets near us. Some know the odd word in English. Most dont. And as to American or Europeans vets here -- not in Pattaya. Maybe animals elsewhere are luckier? I hope so.

And beware if you are going to try to spay or neuter an animal here. When our adopted stray street dog became pregnant, unbeknown to us, every single vet in town refused to perform an abortion and sterlilisation. Not for the sake of the pups or mother, but to prevent themselves receiving bad Karma.

Bring some good pet care books with you, and bags of common sense. You wont find either in Pattaya.

Does anyone know of a Bangkok vet that has spayed/neutered rabbits? I can go thru the posted list but personal feedback is always best. Thx in advance.

For Koh Samui I can recommend Dr Somsuk, he is on the main ring road, between Chaweng and the Tesco Lotus.

Sorry, I don't have the number on me, I will post it later.

PAC Thailand on Koh Phangan will also treat dogs but are looking to find a Thai vet to open a practice on the island to treat non-strays so they can concentrate on the strays and temple dogs. 077-238-375, 09-875-7513

Kasetsart University has a vetinary teaching hospital that sees animals as "walk ins" too!

Can you give good directions how to find it..... on foot or by car?

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