Vets Bills

We don't have insurance but it was probably the bill for exam, ultrasound, GA, open up, PTS, dispose of body for a Rottweiler. I don't think they charged for transporting her to the operating theatre in another branch because they were relocating the main branch that day. I can't remember the exact amount but about £1k approx 6years ago. We may have had other large bills over the years but inflation will have madethis the largest, I think.
 
Just recently, for Jessie dogs ongoing illness and hospital stay. So far we are up to about €5,800 and counting as she still has to have repeated bloods done etc and we don't really know what her future treatment might be. The insurance paid out for €4,000 as that was the limit unfortunately but still a huge help.
 
It never actually happened in the end but I was quoted £5,000 for a dog that was suspected to have eaten a foreign object. This was for x-ray, GA, surgery, after care and follow ups. As it happened it cost me £1500 for x-ray, overnight stay in emergency hospital, and some painkillers for having eaten too much.

Insurance company paid within 3 weeks
 
Ours recently was something around £3k for emergency care, u/s (or similar) and repair under ga for a stick injury to soft palate. The estimate was it could be up to £5k, our ceiling. So we were also able to claim the approx £700 at the initial emergency vet consultation who'd referred us to the specialist. Insurance paid both within 2-3 weeks.
 
€2,300 (with some hefty professional discounts included) for a root canal, composite canine and subsequent second op to replace composite when she refracture the same tooth 3 months later. Not insured as not possible to insure and be your own pets primary vet so not worth while for me.
 
£6k - insurance paid £2k of it because she was older and it was a co pay thing.
It made a welcome dent in the bill though.
 
£3.5k for bladder stone removal. We had paid as we went along and claimed back before we knew she needed the operation. For the big one, vet was happy to deal direct with insurance.

We picked Luna up, came home, and were eating our tea when I got the email from the insurance company saying they had paid out.

Vets said it was the quickest payout they’d ever received.
 
Mahoganybay said:
Similar amount, also paid with no insurance for a TPLO on my male Cockapoo.

Fiwen30, out of interest! Has your dog made a full recovery?
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He did, although he’s been gone almost a year now.

He had the surgery when he was 11, and lived till he was 13.5, and those extra few years I had with him were priceless.

We had a specialist surgeon doing the op, and a wonderful vet physio who guided us through his recovery and rehab process. For the remainder of his life, he received multi modal care - home alterations for safety, meds for arthritis pain, top up laser and acupuncture for flares, and regular water treadmill sessions to gain his strength, muscle mass, and mobility back.

He never needed the 2nd cruciate op done, because he was treated like glass! Always happy to chat in more detail about our plans and care.
 
fiwen30 said:
He did, although he’s been gone almost a year now.

He had the surgery when he was 11, and lived till he was 13.5, and those extra few years I had with him were priceless.

We had a specialist surgeon doing the op, and a wonderful vet physio who guided us through his recovery and rehab process. For the remainder of his life, he received multi modal care - home alterations for safety, meds for arthritis pain, top up laser and acupuncture for flares, and regular water treadmill sessions to gain his strength, muscle mass, and mobility back.

He never needed the 2nd cruciate op done, because he was treated like glass! Always happy to chat in more detail about our plans and care.
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That sounds so positive and quite similar to my boy. He will be 10 in August and I just need more time with him, I would be absolutely thrilled if he lived to 13.5 🙏

We got the best surgeon and aftercare we could find, like you home alterations, no more ball throwing, he is on daily Rheumocam (if you can recommend anything better, please do) and the best joint supplements we have found on the market.

He goes to hydrotherapy once per week and I give him red light therapy at home.

One of my friends dogs did one cruciate ligament and with a year he did the other. He is however a very large Doberman.

Apart from some muscle wastage on that hip / leg you can’t tell 😍
 
£12k, uninsured due to my error when changing insurance companies for a 20kg dog with terrible gastroenteritis. It was a week of intensive care, a last ditch abdo op and very touch and go whether he would survive. He did survive and he still has occasional digestion problems but between me and vets we catch it quickly and the bill is usually £100 or so.

I've had many other vet bills between £5-8k in the last 10 years - surgery and/or ongoing issues run a big bill up very quickly - but they were pretty much covered by insurance, most of them with just a £100 excess to pay.
 
Despite having dogs for 13 years, I’ve only really had to claim since last September for my elderly terrier.

He died earlier this month, he became suddenly ill and I took him to the vet, an anti sickness jab and bloods cost me £300.

The next day he had ultrasound and X-rays which cost around £1500

Putting him to sleep and cremation was £700ish.

Insurance paid most of it out, less x% of co-pay as he was over 9 years old. Cremation and PTS were slightly over the amount we were covered and because of his age, purchase price was no longer covered.

We’re with Napo and they’ve been really good, prompt and concise. They even sent a small potted rose in his memory. My other dog and cat are also insured with them.
 
£1.7k for ultrasound scan, abdominal surgery and castrate at specialist hospital. Insurance covered the bulk.
 
£4.5k when my young dog tripped and snapped her radius and ulna. 48 hours later she had two very expensive plates in her leg! Insurance paid direct within days.

Follow up X-rays (wasn’t straight forward) were probably about a grand. Hydrotherapy and physio for the rest of her life, £60 odd every 4 weeks. Insurance covers it all.

ETA excess £100 yearly
 
My two have just been warned to stay healthy or it's coming out of their pocket money! Oh, wait, they don't have pocket money...
So far, my biggest bill was a few hundred for Monster to have x-rays to check there was nothing underlying after he got tendinitis twice in the same leg in quick succession.
Next planned big bill will be getting Liberty spayed in a year or two.
 
Over the years we have had up to 7 dogs at a time and the vast majority of bills have been for relatively small amounts. The largest was for the Rott mentioned upthread, she had also had a mast cell tumour removed from her elbow the previous year. If we had paid insurance premiums we would be well out of pocket by now even if they had covered the 2nd tumour incident.
 
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