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

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Claire
11 years ago

Please keep this (relatively) local facility open.

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Fiona R
11 years ago

This is a vital service for the Highlands and Islands, closure could have a real impact on livestock.

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Linda robettson
11 years ago

Please do not close this facility

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Linda robettson
11 years ago

Please do not close this facility

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Jo Collins
11 years ago

This I Is an important facility for animals that I believe need help aswell as research into causes of their death.

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Ruaridh Ormiston
11 years ago

As a Hill Farmer we will miss the use of this facility and it's support.

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Anonymous
11 years ago

Closing this facility would be a huge blow to local crofters and farmers. Please think again.

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samantha king
11 years ago

These guys provide an absolutely invaluable service!!! Please leave!

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Ross Flett
11 years ago

An essential service for Wildlife conservation

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gloria mason
11 years ago

much needed. leave it alone!

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Catherine Bain
11 years ago

The information gained by the work carried out at this facility is invaluable for so many of us in the north of Scotland.

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Mona rae
11 years ago Featured

This would be a disaster for us as farmers - 30 miles from Inverness but well over a hundred to any other facility. It just means we would not bother to find out problems - too costly and time consuming. It's a ridiculous idea.

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Tekela Koek
11 years ago

What is the alternative for Highland? We must keep this facility!

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John Bannister
11 years ago

What alternative is proposed for us in the Highlands and Islands? I see no feasible alternative to servicing these areas. This will be a dreadful loss to us.

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Richard Jones
11 years ago

A vital facility in the capital of the Highlands!

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Elmamaciver
11 years ago

It is imperative that the marine animal and farm animal post mortem facility is kept open and available to the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.

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Cathy Higginson
11 years ago

A crucial service for livestock owners and vital for animal and public health in the Highlands. Please don't close it.

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Dr. Hayley Crosby-Durrani BVMS MRCVS
11 years ago

It is essential for disease surveillance to continue with a central point in the Highlands. It is too far to expect livestock farmers to transport dead stock to Aberdeenshire from the likes of Caithness and the North West coast. Also with the extensive coastline and high numbers of marine animals around the Highlands if a new disease occurs people will be less likely to take animals to the lab in Aberdeen than one relatively on the doorstep in Inverness therefore potentially allowing for the diseases to spread and with the potential for diseases to cross-species this must be picked up early. Do not let the skills of disease investigation and surveillance be lost from the Highlands it is essential for both animal and public health.

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Katrina Colligan
11 years ago

Obviously a vital & important role played by this lab for the livestock & owners within this outlying area

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lucy goodwin
11 years ago Featured

This is a vital service for livestock owners in the North west of Scotland. I am a crofter in the far north west and feel that is is yet another service under threat of centralization leaving those of us living in the rest of Scotland feeling on the periphery again