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Our cat had to stay in over night for observation, and the charge was £20.00. I said that was expensive, the nurse repled, "well we have fed her, and sorted out her kennel & she will be getting attention and fuss" I said, It wouldn't cost £20.00 to feed her for the night! :mad: Do you mean to say that a vet/nurse will check on her during the night? She isn't Ill just observation!
Makes me wonder if they just "rip" us off!! But how do we know? :rolleyes:
Makes me wonder if they just "rip" us off!! But how do we know? :rolleyes:
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I have to admit I'm a bad pet owner, I only do what I think is necessary which is the snip and if they are sick I'll take them to the vet. Never been bothered with vaccinations. However I've only got a cat. I suppose I wouldn't be able to get away with that if I had a dog.
Best thing to give a dog with diarrhoea? Immodium, which is exactly what the vet would give (only he'd charge ten times the price).
Luckily, around the same time my local animal shelter, started a new vet surgery open to the public, and the prices.....?
£35 each cat. That's just £105 total! A massive saving of almost 50%! :eek:
I asked why it was so cheap and they said, "because we charge the price it does cost, not what the other vets think it should cost"
So, check out your local animal shelter and see if they have a vets open to the public....chances are you'll save alot of money.
Although when my beloved Candy (my dog) had a hysterectomy a couple of months ago she had -
Blood test
Operation (only stayed in for afternoon)
Antibiotics
Pain killers
IV thingy in her leg
3 further consultations
Cost about £300 - which we were actually happy about as it is so low.
Sometimes just for a course of pills or something it can cost about £20.
But thats the price we pay for our lovely pets - would have paid triple that if need be.
Then you need to change your vet. Our vet always sends us to the chemist to get medication if it is available over the counter.
When we took our dog to the vet last year, he told us that 80% of the consultations he does are for things that would have got better on their own if the owners just waited a couple of days.
I don't think £20 to have a cat kept in overnight is that unreasonable. A member of staff will have to do the observation and keep notes and feed the animal. The kennel, bedding and feed bowls will all need to be cleaned and disinfected before they can be used again.
Having said that I have been appalled by some of my bills, £80 +VAT for having my dog's teeth cleaned a couple of weeks back, which isn't covered by pet insurance. The worst bill I have had involved her having a piece of her soft palette removed and a tonsil as she had breathing problems, and that was a couple of quid short of a thousand, which luckily most of was recoverable, but it still didn't cover my travel to the specialist or other bits and bobs, so I was out of pocket by about £200 on that.
My old horse had to have two teeth out and the bill came to £2,000 :eek: Looking at the broken down bill and you could see how the charges mount up. For example an injection was broken down into cost of Syringe, needle, drug, administering it to the horse. Each separate layer of dressing was charged plus a cost for putting it on.
I do pay over £60 per month in insurance so the blow is not that bad but the excess is £120 per incident and if you claim too often they put up the insurance or exlude parts of the horses body.
When they have gone I think I will get hamsters.
£20 I dont think is too excessive. As others have said they will have to pay a nurse to be there as well as cleaning/feeding etc. They will also have to charge a fee that will give an over all profit depending on what the average number of animals they have in over night.
If you are concerned about the cost of keeping a pet either dont get one or get pet insurance. The likes of Direct Line pay the vets directly for non-routine / pre-existing conditions and so it doesnt even have to come out of your pocket.
Exactly.
Pets are not essential to our life. You want one you pay for one.
We pay £1200-1300 to the NHS per year for each person on average. Whether they are fit or not.
Don't like the bills - don't get a pet or pay proper insurance just as you would for a child through taxation.
I paid nowhere near what you did for my dog to have that operation and it was done at the local surgery.
What sort of dog is she.
Agreed though.
The only bummer is the excess on all policies which is normally around £50. And you can almost guarantee when you go to the vets for something relatively minor the bill will be £49.99
The first visit cost £20 for the vet to feel the leg for about 30 seconds then declare come back on Monday for xrays.
The second visit on the monday cost £76.95 for about 30 mins while they xray'd the birds leg and told me nothing was broken but it was probably a pulled ligament and should get better within 14 days.....
2 weeks later, still no better so go back to the vet they feel the leg for about another 30 seconds declare the ligament is torn because they can feel it all of a sudden now (why they didn't feel this the first time i went i'll never know), then tell me to leave it a few more weeks and "see what happens" because there is not much they can do!, cost for this visit £30.
Daylight robbery if you want my opinion. :mad:
She's a Cavalier King Charles, and it's quite a common problem with them apparently, the tongue is too big for the size of their mouth and blocks the airway when they relax or panic - hence she could snore for Wales! My vets don't have the expertise for this, I had to take her to Bristol to a specialist which was a journey of 120 each way. I had to take her for the initial consultation, then take her back a few weeks later for the op, leave her for two days and then fetch her back. Thankfully she is okay now, so it was well worth the money, I thought she was going to die a few times when she had the attacks and couldn't breathe, so horrible to watch, and have to stick your fingers down her throat to clear the airway. :eek:
Not if you consider the cost of running a veterinary surgery, the cost of staff, the cost of an x-ray machine etc.
The training to be a vet is almost as long and arduous as training to be a doctor. They deserve to be well paid.
I cannot comment on the competency of this particular vet.
My dog was a Yorkie. They can have overgrown palettes so can need them trimmed, otherwise they have breathing problems. Our veterinary surgery is part of a local group and they do most ops on site or at one of their other centres but they take the animials to and fro if necessary.
Maybe that's why your op was a bit cheaper then, I guess maybe if the guy in Bristol had been my vet it may have been less money. They also put in the full whack probably when they know it's an insurance claim.