edit i feel silly sorry!!!
I bake everyone, including the techs, my zucchini bread from zucchini from my garden. I donât tip the vets - doesnât seem appropriate for professionals like that. I do tip the farriers and barn help $50 in either a gift card of some sort or cash.
You are very generous - not sure I see the need to increase to $150 but it all depends on the norms of your area.
I am sure they all appreciate the gifts!
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I think they will be happy with anything you are generous enough to give.
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I bake too! I drop off cards/goodies at the vet clinics, for our body workers and the barn owner.
The main caretaker at the barn gets cookies and a TSC gift card and some beer or tequila. I do my own trimming so merry Christmas to me on that one 
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The thought never crossed my mind to give money to any veterinarian. As a health care provider myself, Iâd be offended if a patient did that to me. A cake or some cookies, sure, to share with my office staff, but not money for me - not even a gift card.
Now, hereâs a thought for your vet. Call the office and talk the office manager. Arrange to have a lunch or breakfast sweets delivered to their office so the vet and staff can all share.
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My vets have gotten PLENTY of my dollars and I can say the thought to give them cash for the holidays never crossed my mind. My dad was a career dentist and got lots of âstuffâ from patients over the holidaysâŠironically always a lot of candy . I donât think he would have been ok accepting cash thinking about it.
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ok iâm so embarrassed i deleted the post 
sorry if thatâs a no no but i really am embarrassed
i didnât think of it like that honestly until now, and now i can see how it can be perceived as being weird i guess. my vet is just super wonderful with my horses, especially my elderly 27 year old mare. he has a wife and kids and i figured who doesnât need extra cash around the holidays! but the idea of sending food to the clinic is a good idea. he is a vet at a practice made up of multiple vets
edit - i have this vet for my horses and then a small animal vet for my other animals who i do the same for with the same reasoning - cash around the holidays ⊠but i could do the same thing for her, like lunch to the office or gift card for lunch for office staff
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It always pays to stay on the good side of the folks who control access to your veterinarian.
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The only time I accepted money from a patient was when a Royal Saudi family came to be treated at the hospital where I was a resident. When they left they gifted each resident involved with their care with a Rolex watch, and each nurse with $500 (in 1970âs money). The attendings never said what they received, if anything. But I still have that Rolex.
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I give my vet (and her tech) gift cards to Wawa so that they can buy themselves snacks and lunches while they are out doing calls. They also get some home baked goodies and vet gets a bottle of wine. She is also a good friend, so itâs never been weird.
My farrier I would also do cookies and a gift card to a local restaurant. The one big vet clinic I have usually sent a big container of boardwalk popcornâŠor a box of cookies, depending on whatâs happened that year (one year I had a very difficult case and the two main vets were so supportive and compassionate, so I sent them both boxes of chocolates).
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Not to hijack the thread, this is a good question OP! What would be appropriate, if anything, for a new farrier who will have seen my two horses from June to December of this year? Heâs reliable, I trust his work, and he comes out of his way for me. A card and ?
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I give my farrier cash at Christmas, in a card.
In years when Iâve been a particularly present client at my vets office with problems, Iâve sent a card that says âthanks for taking care of Dobbin, I appreciate youâ.
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I have gleaned that my farrierâs bev of choice is diet Mountain Dew. Iâm going to get him a case of that. It wonât go bad quickly and I know it will be used. 
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I give my farrier homemade peanut butter cookies and he gives me chocolate covered pretzels. Win/win!
Every year for the last 20 years. Wait, one year I changed to a sâmores cookie and he told me to never do that again. He craved my pb cookies.
After all this time, itâs tradition.
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we had our horse buy her groom lunch once a week, the groom was excellent who took very good care of our horse
You werenât being weird! I donât think anyone was dissing you - we are just sharing experiences. Donât stop being generous - thatâs a great thing!
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We use 2 vet practices at the farm - a bigger group practice for vaccines and routine stuff and a local solo practitioner sports med vet. We send some kind of goodies to the office for the large practice for the vets, techs, and staff to share - last year it was a treat tower from Harry and David. The sports med vet is a good friend so she gets homemade goodies and a small gift. Last year it was a fleece with the farm logoâŠthe previous year a thermal yeti mug with her practice logo and âDr Debbieâ on it
