[harmony]

I think the two examples above are quite different. The bottom line with Coximus's Ryland was that the sheep was at the end of the line. That wouldn't matter if the sheep was a pedigree or not. That isn't comparable with the second where the complaint was treatable and Womble had the time to treat it. A commercial farmer may or may not have done the same.

[Womble]

Yes of course. I just wanted to make the point that every case is different - for both the animal and its owner.

[Liz Kershaw]

Our vets are great (farm and equine, the dogs go to a different practice). The vets treat me with my 9 pet sheep as courteously as they do my neighbour with 320 and will approach our economic realities differently, knowing that they farm commercially and I don't. I've called them out twice and they've been fine - and when I apologised in advance in case I needed them during lambing (I didn't) they said that's what they're there for