Vets Bills - flip me! HOW much?
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Chaps,
OK, short trip to the vets for Lady Millicent. Lady Millicent is an overweight, fluffy and very affectionate cat, who has had problems with her teeth in the last day or so ...
Lady Millicent casually managed to run up a bill of just under £70 in less than 10 minutes at the vet this evening, and has been booked in for a spot of GA dental treatment on Thursday. Which will cost 'around £300'.
£300!
I know that I am employing a professional lady to do a purely professional job, but that's a LOT! And I bet it won't take more than 30 minutes too ...
Lady Millicent is worth every penny, a fact I maintained when the wife was struggling to comprehend such steep fees, but the fact that she has flatly refused to talk to us since we got home is making me think again about Thursday's trip. £300 (plus VAT at the nice shiny new rate of 20%) should buy a lot of affection from the miserable fleabag, and I fear it won't.
Oli.
OK, short trip to the vets for Lady Millicent. Lady Millicent is an overweight, fluffy and very affectionate cat, who has had problems with her teeth in the last day or so ...
Lady Millicent casually managed to run up a bill of just under £70 in less than 10 minutes at the vet this evening, and has been booked in for a spot of GA dental treatment on Thursday. Which will cost 'around £300'.
£300!
I know that I am employing a professional lady to do a purely professional job, but that's a LOT! And I bet it won't take more than 30 minutes too ... Lady Millicent is worth every penny, a fact I maintained when the wife was struggling to comprehend such steep fees, but the fact that she has flatly refused to talk to us since we got home is making me think again about Thursday's trip. £300 (plus VAT at the nice shiny new rate of 20%) should buy a lot of affection from the miserable fleabag, and I fear it won't.
Oli.
I would love to see the vet try to clean our cat's teeth. Cue one ambulance called for the vet. She hates the vets, they can examine her, they can only give her boosters, the last vet that did try to examine the cat, had 15 stitches in the end. At home, very affectionate cat, but there, no longer our pet, to her everyone is a target
kers know you have insurance they go to town and do every test under the sun.
)Ah, but it's never just one lady vet. First, she'll call in the Practice Siamese, who will walk slowly past your cat, while staring intently at her. Then, once that's done, she'll call in the Practice Labrador, who will approach your cat, sniff her, have a think about that, then gently lick her , then think about that.
After all that, I don't think £300 odd is unreasonable for the dentistry, the cat scan and the lab tests, do you?
After all that, I don't think £300 odd is unreasonable for the dentistry, the cat scan and the lab tests, do you?
Wow, thats making me feel a whole lot better about the £1250.00 and counting that i have had to fork out over the last month to get Wilson over a nasty case of Pyothorax - its going to be another couple of months before i can be 100% that its gone. Vet really went to town treating him - kept him in for a week, on a drip initially, numerous x-rays, saline flushes and blood tests together with just about every type of antibiotic known to man so by comparision bloody good value. Alas its not covered by insurance mind so he thats put a bit of a dent in the old bank balance.
By the sounds of it i've gotten off somewhat lightly considering the amount of attention that they gave him, but its worth every penny though!
By the sounds of it i've gotten off somewhat lightly considering the amount of attention that they gave him, but its worth every penny though!
Cat managed to stick one of her legs down the back of the radiator whilst jumping down the front last year - thankyou insurers to the tune of £2700 (broken in two places more metal than bone in her leg).
Agree with the scan thing - friends dog went for a scan £300 per pass. (i.e. if they need to reposition the animal to do legs, body etc thats a different pass).
Simes.
Agree with the scan thing - friends dog went for a scan £300 per pass. (i.e. if they need to reposition the animal to do legs, body etc thats a different pass).
Simes.
H_Kan said:
mattdaniels said:
One of our collies had a couple of fits and had to go to the vets. They kept him all day. Full MoT, blood tests and MRI scan. £2400 for the day thankyouverymuch.
I would imagine the scan accounted for a fair chunk of that.
http://www.uk-radiology.co.uk/2.html
zcacogp said:
£300! I know that I am employing a professional lady to do a purely professional job, but that's a LOT! And I bet it won't take more than 30 minutes too ...
Pah, amateur. We had one tooth op at 2.2k followed by another tooth op for 2.4k on the same dog within a year..... Oh, followed by a crown on one of the teeth operated on but that was only a few hundred. And a 1.4k OP on the tooth of a cat between the two dog ops as well.... I know that I am employing a professional lady to do a purely professional job, but that's a LOT! And I bet it won't take more than 30 minutes too ... I suspect that a fair bit of the cost will be a sedative for the cat....
skeggysteve said:
Our vet doesn't charge for clipping our dogs nails!
We clip our own dogs nails AND she's calm enough to have a heart scan without needing any anesthetic! Sorry but we win so far, c. £5.5k of vets fees last year - actually that's probably a bit on the low side, it's probably over £6k by the time all the follow ups and medication is included - I don't like to add it all up!
£4k was insured, we paid the rest. Our Uni Vet Hospital were fantastic at helping us with the costs once the insurance money was gone.
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