Neepawa vet clinic looking for new veterinarian

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Published on Friday, October 16, 2015

By Ken Waddell

Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press

According to an ad in this week’s Neepawa Banner, the Neepawa and District Veterinary Services Board has decided to look for a new veterinarian. 

Neepawa and District Veterinary Services Board chairman, Reeve Richard Funk of the R.M. of Glenella -Lansdowne said in an interview with The Neepawa Banner that the board passed a motion to not renew the contract with Dr. Foss Taylor. Funk said, “We have vets coming in from Carberry, Gladstone and other areas working in our district, so we thought we had to take a new direction. The board felt we were either going to have to make a change or lose our veterinary services here, so we want to try and take a new direction with a new younger vet.” Funk indicated that there was nothing personal about the decision but that Dr. Taylor is away a lot working at “many other places across the province.” Dr. Taylor was given 90 days notice by the board, which has reps from the Town of Neepawa and the surrounding municipalities.

Dr. Taylor said, “I don’t really want to comment that much. I have been here for 32 years and that should count for something. We are trying to work it out with the Veterinary Services board.” The Veterinary Services board is a provincial level board that oversees the veterinary industry.