What is the type of practice like locally, regionally, nationally?
In the private practice there are big hospitals, with maybe five to six vets on staff, but most of the practices are small, with only one or two vets and one nurse or receptionist (or both). In Spain, the hospitals are frequently located in premises not build specifically for a clinic to use, but rather adapted after the purchase. In cities, hospitals generally don’t have parking facilities. They are frequently on the street floor of a six to eight story building. In the countryside, they are often in houses or are purpose built. Spain has just two or three feline-only practices in all the country. I practice in a special place in many ways. I live on an island in the west part of the Mediterranean and until 70 years ago it was very poor—all the economy was agriculture-based. More recently there has been a tourist boom, and many hotels were built and people came to work and live on the island, so there is quite an eclectic mixture of clients. In the countryside, there are still people
