Why are Vets so stupidly overpriced and expensive?
AJ Wheels
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£300 for a blood test on a cat.
£100+ on flea treatments?
£500 for dog worming treatments?
£100+ on flea treatments?
£500 for dog worming treatments?
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you would have to have a lot of animals for it to cost that for defleaing and worming
You must remember it's a Business
No that is the price for worming dog treatments, not had it done, its just the cost for it.
really?
I took cat in last week (I am in central London as well) and it cost nothing of the sort.
Unless you have lots cats and dogs??
the rspca clinic here will do both and throw chips in too for a tenner.
Rubbish.
Over what period and how many animals ?
Now I live in Kensington , an expensive area but my choice , my vet is one of the oldest in London and in an expensive area and I pay about £100 for the annual jabs , a good 15 minute check-up including a complete physical examination, teeth and weighing .
Some people tell me that's expensive but as I say its in a pricey area and most importantly they are good and thorough, where are you going for prices like that ?
Or are you pulling our legs?
Change your vet.
Can't comment on the blood test - if its something really complicated then, yes it can cost - remember they are effectively going to see a private surgeon.
Just (yesterday) bought three months treatment from my vet - £24 and £6 for the wormer - although could've had a combined one.
Of course the consultation was £50 odd - but that included the feline booster vaccinations.
My dog was recently ill and I rushed him to my local vets. The vet took me back to an examination room and asked me to put the dog on the table.
He examined the still, limp body and after a few moments told me my dog was dead.
I suppose it was grief, but I was very upset and refused to accept this. I demanded a second opinion.
So the vet went into the back room and came out with a cat and put it down next to my dog's body. The cat sniffed the body, walked from head to tail, poking and sniffing, then finally looked at the vet and meowed.
The vet looked at me and said, "I'm sorry, but the cat thinks that your dog is dead, too."
I still refused to accept it, so the vet brought in a black Labrador.
The lab sniffed the body, walked from head to tail, and finally looked at the vet and barked.
The vet said, "I'm sorry, but the lab thinks your dog is dead too."
Finally resigned to the diagnosis, I asked the vet how much I owed.
"£650," said the vet.
Well this was ridiculous and I told him so. £650 to tell me my dog was dead?!?!?
"Well," said the vet. "I would only have charged you £50 for my examination. But the rest of the fee is for the Cat scan and the Lab report."
Bloody rip off merchants.
Vets know what ever they charge you will pay.
Is the blood test a specialist test for a certain disease? Because if not, that is absurd.
I agree that vets are expensive but so would human medical treatment be if there was no NHS. Working in the NHS, we staff are quite blase about ordering blood tests, X rays, scans etc but the actual cost, when added up, is quite staggering. The bills we charge patients not entitled to NHS care, and who may have received fairly basic care - just the usual tests and treatment - amount to several thousands of pounds.
Vets operate businesses, their aim is to make profit. I have pet insurance but it doesn't cover routine, preventative care so I agree that visiting the vet can be very expensive.
6 applications of frontline for cats , each app lasts 5 weeks cost £21 online
http://www.nutrecare.co.uk/frontline-spot-on-flea-treatment-frontline-for-cats-c-251_142_841