We first met Tony back in July 2020. 

We had a cow, Amelia who had suddenly become hopping lame overnight. Naturally, we called our vet out to examine her and he informed us that she had torn her calf muscle. He said she would probably never recover and the best thing would be to put her to sleep. 

We were distraught to hear this, especially myself as Amelia was very special to me, the first calf from my favourite cow Jasmine. Amelia was not even 4 years old yet and was 7 months in calf with her second calf. 

At the time I was doing work experience at a farm in Tunbridge Wells. We got talking to the herdswoman there and she recommended Tony to us. Tony had been treating her grandad for many years and had helped him to begin walking again after the hospital had told him he would never walk again. 

We spoke to Tony and explained and thought it was worth a try so we asked him to come and meet Amelia. Tony was amazing with her and they bonded straight away. Tony treated her for many months, gradually becoming less frequent. With the combination of Tony, regular pain relief and having her penned up so she would rest her leg and walk less she gradually recovered more. 

Amelia had the calf on 22^nd September 2020. I remember my brother Matt and I pulling her calf out as we were so scared of her becoming more injured. We were delighted when we pulled out a live calf and even more delighted when we saw it was a heifer (girl), so we knew she would join the herd. Tony continued to treat Amelia for many months after she had calved and she gradually recovered more. 

We had her artificially inseminated that November as we didn’t want the weight of a bull on her. She held to the AI and after that year she has ran with the bull with no problem. She has now had 5 calves and they have all been heifers! She is a truly amazing cow, she will never be perfect on her leg and she does hold all her weight on her left side to compensate her bad leg as that’s what she has adapted to do. Nevertheless it doesn’t matter to us, we are just so pleased she is okay! She is such a happy cow and it is lovely seeing her in the herd with her calf Esme who has now had two calves. 

We never imagined she would still be here today, nearly 5 years later and we are so grateful to Tony and everything he has done for us. 

Tony is always our first point of contact if we have any problems and I have a back problem which he has been treating me for.