Test of integrity

Some times we faced difficulties from Indians who work as grooms in the stables in janadriya, they expected kickbacks for recommending us to their owners, many kept on asking us for commission from whatever we do in their stables also wanted us to put something extra in the invoices we produced for carrying out our work , we did not budge to these demands and we had to lose some practice because of this. Working here has given me a chance to work along with an international team which is very rare for many, had a chance to taste different types of food, and on many occasions I had my break-fast with the grooms and the owners in the stables. It was mostly a multi-cuisine break-fast from Saudi, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sudani, Egyptian and Chadian. Sometimes the owners tried to corrupt our minds and practice, they would want us to give a clean report for breeding their mares, saying that they will pay double the money normally we charge for carrying out breeding examination, we stood firm against those and this brought more people towards us. The practice was mostly breeding, here in Saudi Arabia for coverings the stallion owner cant charge money, it should be free as taking money for covering is against the religion. So if a owner wants to cover his mare with a stallion he can take his mare to the stallion after confirming that the stallion is available on a particular time. For this they need a vet’s report that it is free from any pathogenic organism and ultra-sound examination of the reproductive tract. I should also mention that I made so many friends from west, we had a good relationship with other vets practicing in janadriya. Once a Saudi asked us to give a certificate that his mare was clean of any pathogenic organism and said he would pay me 500 saudi riyals, we refused and told him not to approach us with such a demand again. In the evening one of the stallion owners came to me and said that he would accept mare reports issued only by us, I asked him the reason, he said that the person who approached me in the morning had told everyone of what had happened in the morning, so it was a test for our integrity.