Dr Coupe said she had told council she would have provided a discounted price to customers, if council could guarantee her at least 20 dogs to be microchipped.

She said she would have also provided the clinics at no charge to council.

Dr Coupe said she felt copuncil upset many business people when council used service providers from outside the shire to provide jobs that could be done locally.

"It'd be as a result of council getting services from elsewhere, that local services and businesses may close," she said.

Dr Coupe said this was not the first time council had chosen outside people over locals.

"Council has done this on numerous occasions in the past, but I believe in this case it is a severe cost to the council to get a shire ranger from Bourke to travel here."

Dr Coupe said she believed it would have probably cost council to run last week's clinics.

She said she could have provided the service for free.

"If I could have got decent numbers for each clinic in the villages, I would have given the service to council for free."

Dr Coupe said she was sick of services being utilised from outside the shire area.

But she said with council now able to undertake competitive tendering it made it hard for local services.

She said council had initially contacted her to provide a quote for the microchipping clinics.

"I think they chose the ranger instead of me, because they may not have been certain they could guarantee my minimum requirement of 20 dogs," she said.

Dr Coupe said she was hoping that next time council would give local businesses a fair go.

"It's denying businesses here what keeps them running.

"I could pick up and go at anytime, and maybe in a few years I will," she said.

"They should be pampering professionals to stay here, and not upsetting them," Dr Coupe said.