Senior braved icy drive to Kelowna

DEAR EDITOR:

I am now 75 years old and have just recently lost my dog.

Once I needed a vet on the weekend and was told that I needed to go to Kelowna for treatment.

At the time, I thought it was terrible to have to drive possibly in the snow and ice to get help for my pet.

Surely a city the size of Penticton can have a vet on-call for the residents to take the stress off a sick animal during an emergency.

The vets know how to charge us in Penticton so maybe we should go to Kelowna for regular service.

If the vets took turns on the weekends, with 15 vets between Summerland and Okanagan Falls, it would mean that once in four months they would be on call.

Jim Bolton, Penticton