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How much should injections cost?
queenshaks
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For a kitten?
Ours is 9 weeks now and is due for them. We were told for 3 sets of inoculations, it would cost £70.
Does that sound about right? He's getting done on Wednesday, also, like human babies, do they cry or fell any pain afterwards?
Ours is 9 weeks now and is due for them. We were told for 3 sets of inoculations, it would cost £70.
Does that sound about right? He's getting done on Wednesday, also, like human babies, do they cry or fell any pain afterwards?
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Having said that, make sure you get your cat done again 3 weeks after it's previous injection - we're having to start Bungle's course again because we just missed the second one. For what it's worth I think she's fine and would only really need the 2nd injection, but vets want your money. Though they pull at the heartstrings, I would never forgive myself if she only had one more injection and then died.
Injections at our vet cost £39.50
:cool:
My 2 newish cats had to be revaccinated when I got them because CP do not give the leukaemia vaccine and it actually was a lot less hassle for the vet (and her computer) to give all 3 at the same time. It only worked out at about £5 more expensive than if they had a single vaccine.
I was charged £67 per cat.
PS Cats generally are very good with needles, they don't seem to feel any pain.
Also we did John Lewis insurance as well, this is all new to me, but it was the best we could find for him.
Thanks for your advice, as ever always helpful xx
I think it's good you're getting your kitten insured. I've used my insurance quite a bit over the years and you never know what accidents or illnesses your little one may succumb to.
John Lewis is probably good. I didn't know they did pet insurance but I buy loads of stuff from there because of their excellent after sales and customer service so I'm sure you'll be fine with them.
Thanks Marella
Isn't he too young to be chipped at 9 weeks old?
Total cost for vacs and m/c £75.00 and have booked him in for end of Nov for neutering - don`t know how much that`ll cost
Next visit? He hasn't been to the vets yet!
We're not going to get him micro chipped yet, we think he's far too young, he's 9 weeks now.
I've been told if he's not going out yet, he doesn't need to be micro chipped yet?
But yours is only 1 week older than ours, maybe when ours has his final inoculation, when he'll be approaching 12 weeks, we'll ask the vets.
We plan to get ours neutered as well, so all questions will be asked when my husband takes him to the vets tomorrow for his first set of inoculation.
I pay about £45 to have our tom cats neutered. It's about £60 to be spayed. (Trust me, we've just recently acquired our 8th feline!)
He/she (we can't decide!) is a bit of a quirky character!
His mum is currently looking after an abandoned kitten, no more than about 10 days old. My friends dad found 2 in the shed where he works, no mum, just 2 cold tiny hungry kittens. Unfortunately the weaker one died but the stronger one has been adopted by our fantastic mummy cat who is treating it like her own now.
Cats can be escape artists. How will you feel if he gives you the slip, nips out and gets lost?
Vet advised us to microchip him when he had his 2nd injection because he can go outside from then.
Still havent let him out because he doesn`t have any sense of danger and is far too excitable, may even decide to keep him in til he`s neutered as I`ve heard it can calm kittens down.
£45 not too bad
Mistachio is a cutie
We don't plan to let him out, I don't know if I could cope if anything happened to him. We have planned to have him as a house cat but my husband said he wants to allow just in our garden when he's big enough. We'll see.
Good luck with that!
It's been fun seeing you go from "I don't want a cat, it's being forced on me" to "I'm completely smitten" in the course of about a week!
Yes, well erm, when the time happens, I'll update you
I know, soppy mare!:o
Ooh, he had a strop yesterday and really clawed my husband, Simba wanted to stay in my daughter's room but he also wanted to "play" with Nigel (the hamster) and so my husband carried him downstairs, not a very happy kitten. Little monster
Cats hear what you plan and laugh. I would chip any cat, even if it's meant to be indoor incase it gives me the slip.
Also unless you have a garden with 6' brick walls a cat will almost certainly find it's way out unless you go to some lengths to cat-proof it. However having done mine it's fantastic for the cats - my fatso is now slimmer and they love playing out there.
Errol played with the neighbours hamster - they had left the front door open and it wasn't in it's cage... Poor hamster.
I'm also grinning at the change from you not wanting a cat to falling head over heels.
Oh dear!:eek:
Do you mean £78 in total for the vaccinations? My vet charged £67/cat on the first visit and nothing for the 2nd visit 3 weeks later (though I ended up paying a lot for worming and flea treatments :rolleyes:)
In that case, £70 seems like the average price.
Subsequent yearly booster vaccines should be a bit cheaper (they rotate the vaccines apparently, they don't receive the same booster every year) and provides a good opportunity for the vet to carry out routine health checks.
Wow, that seems a lot of money. We had booked him for 3 injections, which would have cost £70 for the whole lot, but the vet said as he's going to be an indoor cat, the third wasn't necessary.
We were charged £50 today. He cried all the way in the car