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How to make a vet blush

It’s easy: just ask how much they charge to remove a pea-sized cyst from a spaniel

30 January 2016

9:00 AM

30 January 2016

9:00 AM

My attempt to have a small cyst removed from the spaniel was always going to be fraught with difficulty. My vets are in a posh area of London and have a name that sounds like a multinational reinsurance broker. This is because similar amounts of money go through their books.

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