Lee247

My cats paw swelled up and looked like a frying pan, last week. Swift visit to the Vets. Antibiotic injection and course of anti inflammatries. £80 lighter and an appointment for today to check up.
I was in there 1 minute at most. £11.50
Not worth claiming on the insurance, but they want me to go back in two weeks for another check up even though his paw is now fine.
I always thought follow up checks were free
The offending beast

urban

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That looks like a small horse


Wife requested I take her cat to vat because of a watery eye
Was in for less than 10 mins - bill was nearly 50 quid with a tube of eye drops.

Lee247

It's Jasey who's got the horse. His cat is hooooooooooooooooge

I have no idea where these Vets get their charges from. Dick Turpin at least had the grace to wear a mask

urban

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its got a head like a bison

evorach

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vets bill are astronomical. When I had horses, one of them ran up £850 in fees in the first 3 months I owned him.

Jamie

£40 squid up here just to look at a dog robbing >fill in the blanks<

Henrik

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Umm... how much does it cost to go to a private doctors? Not sure why animals should be cheaper

I've spent about 400 on my bleeding guinea pigs over the past two months, grr.

Xx-IAN-xX

I hope your sore ***** gets better Lee

kingofturds

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Unfortunately unless you want to see your pet suffer you have no option to bend over and take it up the ****

Jamie

WTF

David Lock

Our vet drives a Scooby and I think we've paid for quite a bit of that over the last couple of years

dl


PS.
"Not worth claiming on the insurance, but they want me to go back in two weeks for another check up even though his paw is now fine"

I'd ask if check was free. If not I wouldn't bother if moggy is fine.

Jamie

I am still trying to work out what KOT is talking about.

kingofturds

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Our poor cat was ill and we either had to watch her die or pay up several hundred quid.

jasey

Who are you calling a horse



Took the other two to the vets for booster jabs & annual MOT - £150

Wagon Gaz

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"Not worth claiming on the insurance, but they want me to go back in two weeks for another check up even though his paw is now fine"

I'd ask if check was free. If not I wouldn't bother if moggy is fine.[/QUOTE]

Im with David if our dogs get better they dont get the check up

Jamie

That just made me laugh foofing evil looking thing.

Jamie

And it is plugged in.

jasey

he's not evil


Hmmm - maybe he is

Jamie

Death by cat look at the bugger he has his own plugs

Jamie

Splicer when you get the time i would like your intake on this cat/evil or just mad ?

howellsy42

are rottie twisted his knee three weeks ago once he had a check up he went to the vets monday just gone and had surgery on his leg had to have a false ligament (spelling ) cost £710.23p i told the missis i may re tain as a vet and we dont have insurance on him sods law

dpb

Always wanted to be a vet or a gamewarden , too thick though

Well i suppose theres still time for the 2nd option

Jamie

The thick option ? try night classes they do train part time

pimmo2000

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£240 to have my dog Spayed and booster injections .. although I have to say the scar is tiny ...

dunx

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My local vet drives a Porsche, not a Legacy estate...

Craig next door took his elderly cat in and was told quite bluntly, " £35 + VAT to terminate, or £150 just to listen to his heart ( out of hours )"

dunx

urban

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**** me - american werewolf in London

AndyC_772

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A mate of mine is a vet; getting qualified requires a 6 year degree course - so you're paying for the time of an exceptionally well-qualified person. After putting in all that effort, and taking on as much responsibility as they do, I wouldn't begrudge my vet a nice car.

The fees tend to be structured so that the routine stuff effectively subsidises the expensive equipment that's only needed occasionally, and which simply couldn't be paid for otherwise.

Without doing it this way, routine vaccinations might be cheaper, but there's no way many owners would be able to afford the treatment if their pet required X-rays or other more complicated procedures.

Snazy

Local vet wanted 400 for spaying, but on the flip side other treatments have been reasonable.
Most vets seem to have a fee scale based on the size of the animal, and a consultation is a consultation regardless of how long it takes.
As for follow ups, mine has never charged for check ups following treatments.

Flip side, the local emergency vet charged £80 for "call out" to his own house lol. Then £45 for the consultation and £40 for an ibuprofen shot.

I think the 11 odd quid is ok

Tidgy

crikey, some huge figures there. our cat had the snip, various boosters and flea jab not that long ago and came in at under £60.

we pay £9.95 a month and get various things included like 6 month check up, his remaining boosters, flea treatment etc plus discounts on other things.

emergency vets, now there is ouch, just after last christmas our old cat was very very poorly £125 fee for seeing our cat, and then £50 to put him to sleep, cry cry cry. £175 and that was with a load of out of compasion.

talk about robbing you when you need help the most

windyboy

Have you stolen our cat ????

We got him from the USPCA (similar to the RSPCA but U is for Ulster) and as part of the terms of getting him we had to get him insured, good job we did as he was hit by something last year and broke his jaw. The total bill was over £400 but we just had to pay the £60 excess.

One of our other cats had a bad eye when we got her and it turned out that her eyeball had burst !!!! and that cost us a fortune as it was over the New Years weekend

windyboy