New Years day vet bill!!

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lcharles

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01/01/12
Visit £31.09
Supplement Sat/Sunday/Bank Holiday £30.91
Examine & advice colic inc rectal -Normal HR,quiet gut sounds, wanting to go down but not rolling. Rectal - no impaction palable, mildly gassey. NGT with bucket water + 3x effadrayl,Adv starve and rex if persists. £51.17
Sedivet £14.29
Torbugesic combined per ml £5.27
Equipalazone per ml inj i/v £13.31
Buscopan injectable 20mg/ml £17.98
Effydral £8.78

Total: £172.80

Not bad for Colic call out on New Years Day :O) x
 
lcharles said:
01/01/12
Visit £31.09
Supplement Sat/Sunday/Bank Holiday £30.91
Examine & advice colic inc rectal -Normal HR,quiet gut sounds, wanting to go down but not rolling. Rectal - no impaction palable, mildly gassey. NGT with bucket water + 3x effadrayl,Adv starve and rex if persists. £51.17
Sedivet £14.29
Torbugesic combined per ml £5.27
Equipalazone per ml inj i/v £13.31
Buscopan injectable 20mg/ml £17.98
Effydral £8.78

Total: £172.80

Not bad for Colic call out on New Years Day :O) x
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Mine for Christmas Day (choke/colic/Buscopan) was £117. Big relief when it arrived, I'd expected it to be much higher. :)


I put some Thornton's choc in with my cheque. :D
 
I also would be pleased with that bill!

I just had a vets bill for colic 2 weeks ago admittedly it was 2 call outs in the same day but they were within normal hours and that cost £435.00!!


Hope your horse is ok now
 
I was going to drop off some Thortons too!! x

I thought it would be about £200 on a usual day so I'm really pleased! x When the lady at the stable called to tell me my horse was colicing the first thing i thought was 'arghhh......hope she's ok' followed by 'argh........vet bill!' but it goes to show that no-one should hesitate to call the vet when ones needed because of extra costs!! x

I know people say 'you shouldnt have a horse if you can't afford vet bills' but i'm sure most of us consider the bill when calling the vet out!! x

Good result.....been worried about this until it came in the post today! :O) x
 
two weeks ago our cat went in to the vets was put in ICU and was on a drip over night, then came home and had pills and tablets... £723!!!!

our friends daughter has a mouse, it cost them 50p to buy. it has an itchy ear and where it's being scratched it's bleeding. The daughter is very upset so they take it to the vets... £43 worth of drugs, and if it doesn't clear up they offered to operate on it!!
 
My girl raced around the field, injured herself and had an emergency call out on Boxing Day which cost me over £200. My boy then decided to get in on the act and had an emergency call out New Year's Day - still to get that bill but it resutled in three further visits so not looking forward to it !!!

My last vet bill for a call out was August bank holiday - do you think my horses do it for fun :D
 
Because my chap is prone to colic at any upset I now make sure I worm him or do anything else funny to him

at the beginning of the week
in the morning
not near any bank holidays

!! that way at least if he does have a funny turn it wont be so expensive....
 
I'm hoping my lot have had their fun for this year, so far in the 25 days of 2012 I have one tie up, one colic, 3 routine vacs, one set of stifle x-rays on a youngster and a broken pedal bone, with a full set of x-rays...

...tesco value for the rest of 2012 me thinks!
 
FionaM12 said:
That attitude annoys me. Probably because I have a horse and if I'm honest, can't really afford to do so. :D:D

(I think that's my business though). :)
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Lol i totally agree.....but then i cant really afford the rugs/accessories/competitions i pay for every month either! x

People shouldnt have kids they can't afford either, but they do! x

Tinsel Trouble - Thats ridiculous!! and as for the mouse - poor mouse!! xcould they really operate on something so small?! x Can you even insure a mouse?! x
 
Imagine having to give a mouse an injection! I would be worried it would be coming out the other side.

My old boy (who is not insured and only had routine vets bills for the last 3 years) got kicked to side of knee in December - unfortunately in the dark (after 5) I panicked as he was holding it up like it was broken. It cost me £285 for the vet to come out - shave it - scan it - wash it - bandage it and give me a course of injections to give him. It didnt end there though - another vet came 3 days later to change bandage (didnt do a particularly good job) - a day later I had to rebandage and then a follow up check up a week later where they decided on another course of antibiotics - scraped off scabby tissue and rebandaged - so far £565!!! Horse now ok - ready to be worked again - vets bill finally paid and yesterday my car has decided it would like a new cambelt!!
 
Another who is smarting from a £540 vets bill for a cat with a swollen leg! The out of hours charge just for the consultation was £120 and that was me taking her there. I will never complain about a horse vet bill again!
 
Jane_Lou said:
Another who is smarting from a £540 vets bill for a cat with a swollen leg! The out of hours charge just for the consultation was £120 and that was me taking her there. I will never complain about a horse vet bill again!
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That's mad. Your out of hours (at surgery) call out was more than my entire Christmas Day bill! And mine included an intravenous injection which involved both of us hanging round her neck, dragged round the stable, the vet covered in blood:eek:.
 
Wow OP I’d love your vet. Had to rush my puppy in on NYD as the cat chased him downstairs and he bashed his neck, hospital is staffed 24/7/365 so no call out. £165 for 10 minute exam and 5 days rimadyl.
 
MardyMare said:
Imagine having to give a mouse an injection! I would be worried it would be coming out the other side.
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Vet did exactly this to my friend's goat - she pointed out the wet patch on the floor and asked him to do it again!!

Lisamd said:
I'm hoping my lot have had their fun for this year, so far in the 25 days of 2012 I have one tie up, one colic, 3 routine vacs, one set of stifle x-rays on a youngster and a broken pedal bone, with a full set of x-rays...

...tesco value for the rest of 2012 me thinks!
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OMG!! I had to call vet out New Year's Eve for colic and then again on the bank holiday Monday, she also ran bloods then. Total bill just under £500 including medication, Bute etc. I thought that wasn't too bad.
 
Tinsel Trouble said:
two weeks ago our cat went in to the vets was put in ICU and was on a drip over night, then came home and had pills and tablets... £723!!!!

our friends daughter has a mouse, it cost them 50p to buy. it has an itchy ear and where it's being scratched it's bleeding. The daughter is very upset so they take it to the vets... £43 worth of drugs, and if it doesn't clear up they offered to operate on it!!
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i remember about 10 years ago waiting in a vets a lady laughing with shock HAMSTER HYSTERECTOMY £57...it wasnt a young one.........
 
Lisamd said:
I'm hoping my lot have had their fun for this year, so far in the 25 days of 2012 I have one tie up, one colic, 3 routine vacs, one set of stifle x-rays on a youngster and a broken pedal bone, with a full set of x-rays...

...tesco value for the rest of 2012 me thinks!
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God I thought I had bad luck so far 2 xrays on fronts,one choke,swollen lower hind leg and then a swollen bum cheek that got infection after nipping him during cilpping. All was emremgy call outs fees And just a couple week's ago xrays on hind foot which has found a keretoma and now waiting for him to be op on!!! O dear!!! Hello bake beans on toast it's all worth it as I love him!!!
 
Jane_Lou said:
Another who is smarting from a £540 vets bill for a cat with a swollen leg! The out of hours charge just for the consultation was £120 and that was me taking her there. I will never complain about a horse vet bill again!
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Our horse vets aren't too bad but as you say Jane-Lou the small animal bills are dreadful. The other day I got wormers and flea jobs for the yard cats (3 of them) and it was 60 euro, but I rang the horse vet on Christmas Eve and he gave me 6 days of bute and 5 days of antibiotic powder for an old mare and it was only 50 euro. He put the mare down recently and it cost 90 euro, so looking at all your bills we must be lucky here.:)
 
My parents used to have a cat who was so accident prone that my dad swore she had shares in the vet's!
Our current lot get the usual sort of cat related injuries; I have a theory that if they are willing to go to the vet without protest then it's pretty serious:( Usually, the sight of the cat carrier begins with them hiding and ends with me wrapping my arm in a tea towel until I can get the bleeding to stop...
 
Well we haven't had a vet bashing post for a while!! :(
In all these cases when people are complaining about the cost to cure and save their beloved pets (even mice and hamsters) do they not stop to appreciate the skill and professionalism of the vets and nurses involved in saving their animals life. Can you imagine how difficult it is to operate on a hamster.
If you don't want to pay vets bills - don't have animals. Simple! Or get insurance.
Oh and try calling a plumber out on a Bank Holiday and see how much he will charge before he even looks at anything.
To the ladies who took chocolates in to their vets to say thanks - how lovely - I'm sure they were much appreciated. I'm not a vet/nurse but do know a lot of them and they get very upset if the only comment they get from clients is to complain about the bill :(
 
Our vets charge I think £35 for normal callout (plus vat!) and twice that out of hours.
Given that an examination is about £30 too, you are looking at £100 plus before they actually treat.

And it may even be more as these figures are over a year old.

My vet was actually talking to me the other day about whether it makes sense paying £50 for treatment for a hamster that cost £5
 
My aunt recently paid £80 to have a Koi Carp 'PTS humanely' and didn't even stay to see the end. I was almost PMSL at that! I bet the vet just smacked it on the side of the table or something. :D
 
Wanna swap OP? One week before Christmas, I had to call the vet out on a Sunday morning, led to blood tests for liver and Cushings - £245 with a repeat Cushings test 5 weeks later, that will be around £80 I think. 48 hours later I had to take the cat to her vet, more tests, another £250. Horse already costs £500 every month for prescription meds, now we've added Prascend to that. Happy New Year to me :(
 
MardyMare said:
Imagine having to give a mouse an injection! I would be worried it would be coming out the other side.
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scrunchie said:
My aunt recently paid £80 to have a Koi Carp 'PTS humanely' and didn't even stay to see the end. I was almost PMSL at that! I bet the vet just smacked it on the side of the table or something. :D
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:D:D These two made me giggle.

I have a childhood memory of rescuing a hamster from evil children down the road, they'd pulled one of its eyes out. :mad: My dad took me and it to the vet, who kindly explained he could operate, it would then have one eye and be ugly and cost a lot, or he could pts and "Your daddy can take you and buy a hamster with two eyes for you".

No, I said, I want this one.

I had that hamster, weepy empty eye socket and all, for several years.....
 
LIZ66 said:
In all these cases when people are complaining about the cost to cure and save their beloved pets (even mice and hamsters) do they not stop to appreciate the skill and professionalism of the vets and nurses involved in saving their animals life. Can you imagine how difficult it is to operate on a hamster.
If you don't want to pay vets bills - don't have animals. Simple! Or get insurance.
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I fully appreciate the costs of running and staffing a Vet surgery, I also have no qualms about paying a professional for a professional job (but I expect courtesy, just because they are brighter than me does not mean that they are any better than me) - so I do understand why it costs me $50 to even step inside the surgery door.

"If you don't want to pay vets bills - don't have animals."

I sacked my small animal vet on the spot when he said that to me... arrogant, hypocritical........arggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhh :mad::mad: Just because I said No to an $800 (low estimate) operation

How dare he (anyone for that matter) presume that I am unable to pay? :mad:

My horse Vet is always very reasonable, I always seem to get weekend call outs for emergencies - sods law.
 
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