Do Not Close the Veterinary Services Disease Surveillance and Post Mortem facility in Inverness

This is a centre of excellence as a post mortem facility and for disease surveillance and must not be allowed to close.

How can anyone take away these vital services, much needed by farmers, crofters and all other organisations, where would they have to go if Inverness closed?

With global warming and the threat of more pollution this facility provides vital information on changing conditions.

I live in North Scotland and I find this an incredibly short-sighted move. It's a sad day for public service if money can not be found to keep this essential facility going

Keep it highland

Closing this lab just to save a few pounds is madness and irresponsible. They do incredibly important work for animal health and welfare, and cetacean science and conservation.

The work undertaken by the lab on investigations on strandings of whales and dolphins is key to their conservation, the lab must be saved

It's important to know what diseases are on the rise & to have strategies in place in the event of an outbreak. Timely response measures would minimise what could be a disaster. This is very short sighted policy!

This is a remote area and closure of this unit would be a definite mistake.

This facility is vital for the Highlands.

The Veterinary Lab and PM facility in Inverness is so important to us Crofters and Farmers. It must be kept open.

The Vet Lab service in Inverness is very important to assist crofters and farmers maintain livestock numbers.

This will lead to money saving by burying dead animals on crofts. As shown at Soutra Isle (ruins of monastic hospital) anthrax, even when covered in quicklime, is still alive when the weather is hot - hence no archaeological digs take place there in high summer. Gruinard was contaminated in WW2 by a deliberate release of anthrax spores. It is vital that infections are identified in animals quickly to avoid the risk of spreading outbreaks far and wide by carrying corpses in vans for hundreds of miles, or by inefficient or thoughtless burial. Although I do not own livestock I am concerned that the precarious livings of crofters are not put at risk by bean counters of the Central Belt. The SNP appear to ignore everyone north of the Central Belt now that they have been safely elected.

This is a really important facility for farmers, vets etc ... we need to be able to identify illness etc in our farmstock, pets and wildlife without delays

This proposal is a false economy which may help SAC to save money but will increase users' costs and increase the risk of disease spreading.

This is an important facility for the Highlands, do not close it .

Livestock farmers need this local facility, removal will add costs and increase the likelyhood of serious problems being identified too late.

we have to keep the vet lab in the Highlands, we cant centralise everything , its important we have local expertise.

this is a very impractical thing to do.

keep it open ,who can afford time and the travelling to other centres