Whats been your biggest vet bill.

I've had a mare in hospital for two months now. Not sure how much this stay is, but the previous treatment had already racked up £2000, so there was only £3000 to stay within the insurance limit. She was supposed to have come home yesterday, but condition got worse and there is now the possibility that she will end up being put to sleep. So I could end up with a vets bill of several thousand pounds and no horse at the end of it. Great.
 
£2500 after my dog swallowed this!
At first they thought it was a virus so off to emergency vets for a shot of anti-b's and anti-inflams, then took him home, 6 days later he got an abscess so off the vets for surgery to drain and flush it out + overnight stay. 5 days later he got what looked like a boil near his belly button so back to the vets for exploratory surgery on August Bank holiday :rolleyes: . Found the skewer and kept him in for 2 nights, got him home and he wouldn't eat or drink so back into the vets for another 3 nights then finally got him home - looking like this!
 
14 k in just under a year

sept 2009 - mare slipped and badly injured leg. Stitched back together under GA, week in hospital, numerous visits for dressing changes etc - 5k

sept 2009 - pastern dermatitis - total bill approx 1.5k

March 2010 - sarcoids - total bill approx £700

July 2010 - PG injection, pregnancy scans x2 - £150

September 2010 - colic surgery - 6.5k so far.

thank god she is insured. But colic surgery has gone over the insurance limit of 5k, so I have to find the extra.
 
£2596 for a eye ulcer and with same horse currently paying off another massive bill. Last time I looked it was up to £1000 but I have had colic treatment and biopsy taken and stuff. So I told the vet not to let me know how much the bill comes to and I'll pay it up. He has to let me know once its paid.
 
£4000 for bone spur removal on hocks. Not insured. Following £1800 for wire wound 6 months previously. Again not insured.

£3500 for a broken hock n the same weekend as picking up a new horse (£6500) was a very expensive weekend. Again not insured.

I now insure for vets fees.
 
Shiney - within 6 weeks of owning him, pronged himself on a bush, we think, couldn't find any blood anywhere - £1800 vet bill, 3 weeks in hospital.

Shiney again - Jumped in a water trough, put foot through bottom of it, hole in suspensory £1500 2 days in hospital for investigation.

Shiney doesn't do cuts and scratches - just hospital visits. Thank god for insurance.

Mickey £0.00 bless him in 7 years of ownership.
 
2K on my dogs broken leg !

They pinned his leg, that didn't work, they repinned it again & that didn't work as the bone was so fragile they said the bone would go again.
So in the end amputation was the only answer which we had done & he is as mad with 3 legs than he was when he had 4 !!

I wasn't insured so happily paid it as i knew i didn't want to lose him as he means so much to me.
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Just over £1000 for treatment on Bensons jaw area. He had a swelling one day which the vet thought could be dental related. After months of anti biotics and the swelling disappearing and then returning he had a scan which showed what we think was a blackthorn enbedded in his lower cheek. The thorn had to be removed, and no problems afterwards.
 
2008 was a very bad year for vets bills for me:

March - £5,872 colic surgery bill from Rossdales together with just over £1,000 from my own vets for pre and post surgery visits/checks. None covered by insurance as colic excluded from his policy.

May Bank holiday - other horse came down with a mystery illness and ended up going to Rossdales for 5 days. Total bill £1,800 for Rossdales £500 own vets (3 visits) and but £1,400 covered by insurance.

July - colic surgery horse back to Rossdales for 3 days as had another bad attack. Just monitoring and pain relief. Further £800 for Rossdales and £200 for own vets. Again not covered by insurance.

Since then roughly £180 every 4/6 months.

No wonder I am skint!!!
 
Around £2500-£3000 for surgery to remove a bone chip from ponys fetlock including about 4/5 days at the vets, bute,antibiotics,loads of bandages and I think a couple of follow up visitsm. Although am pretty sure they forgot to charge us for coming out to take the stitches out, or that could of been from a different injury.

Also had a £2000-£2500 bill from my previous horse for investigating lameness which turned out to be a cracked pelvis. Can't remember what treatment that involved though.

Both luckily covered by insurance.
 
i had a TB for 8 months and she cost me over £3600 in vet bills in that time.

my dog cost me over £1000 in the space of a month before sadly being pts.

my big lad now has probably cost me around £2000 in nearly 5 yrs but the most in any one incident has been £600.
 
£4500 for my dog who had surgery on her hip and leg.... they ended up shaving down the bone, breaking the leg and putting a plate and pins in..... She then had a serious reaction to the pins and was very very poorly! So had to have them removed and leg plastered for weeks! Insurance covered her thank god! ;)

Luckily touch wood only £650 for the horse who got knocked of the road and into a ditch full of stinging nettles.... NFU paid fine :cool:

Touch wood !
 
Well, my bill is a continous one for permanent drug-use. I reckon she has cost me £30,000 (I've had her 15 years and she has been on the drugs for 13.5 of them :( ) just for prescribed meds. Its a minimum of £300 every month. And to cap it all, she is now retired and doesn't even earn her keep :)

Oh dear!
 
fatpiggy said:
Well, my bill is a continous one for permanent drug-use. I reckon she has cost me £30,000 (I've had her 15 years and she has been on the drugs for 13.5 of them :( ) just for prescribed meds. Its a minimum of £300 every month. And to cap it all, she is now retired and doesn't even earn her keep :)

Oh dear!
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Wow! :eek: U must really love her that a lot of money
 
Actually on reading the doggy ones - most heartbreaking must be the £434 pound bill I had to pay after my little staffie bitch died during an emergency operation - having already cost me £1500 when she suddenly became ill out of the blue after being exceptionally healthy all her life. She wasn't insured and I don't resent the costs but last bill was awful to pay.

And so was collecting her from the vets - when they carefully wrapped her up so I couldn't see the surgery wound on her stomach.
 
£8,000 for colic surgery. £5,000 was paid by NFU but the remainder by me. Unfortunately, my mare died of colic six months later when I decided not to put her through surgery a second time for colic.
 
£6k for surgery on a wound that went into his fetlock. Not all of it covered by insurance (they didn't pay the 'livery' part of his 2 1/2 week hospital stay).

£1k on TB's suspensory ligament problems and about £2k trying to diagnose what was causing slight hind lameness in my Connie.

Reading these posts (and from my own experience) it seems that the £5k limit on most policies doesn't go that far now!! Are there any insurers that provide a higher limit per incident???
 
jodie3 said:
Was £670 the total bill for your cat? If so that is extremely reasonable for all the treatment she received. My last dog vet bill was over £100 and that was a scheduled appointment, lab fees for testing his urine, a course of anitbiotics and an anti-inflammatory jab.

Hope your cat is recovering well.
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Hiya. Yes it was the total, I'm very much aware it could have been a lot more and soooo thankful it wasn't lol It was hell of a mess too, she basically dragged herself home one night with her hind leg ripped open from the inside where it meets the stomach spiralling around and ending between her toes. It was gross, her muscle was hanging out the top and there was an enormous pulsing vein. I'm amazed they managed to save her tbh, let alone the leg. The skin had rolled itself away into a thin strip and that's what took the surgery time, trying to unroll it and save enough to stitch. It created a pocket which kept filling with fluid and leaking everywhere and the inside of the hock refused to heal due to this constant pressure and seepage. Then she started bleeding from behind and they thought she'd maybe been caught by a tom and was losing the kittens, but nothing was passed as they expected (they told me to leave her as cats cope very well with this by themselves, just to clarify, I didn't leave her) and she got really poorly, so they kept her in to spay her there and then, and they found growths in her uterus, so we were incredibly lucky. She had to have antirobe, some other antibiotics, can't remember what now, steroids, metacam pain killer and some other pills too, I remember being astounded as my kitchen was resembling a pharmacy!

The vets were fantastic throughout, and she's a bit stiff on it still, and has a massive scar, which is getting less noticable now her hair's growing back, but she's doing really well considering, thanks for asking, and I'm hoping we'll have many more years together to come, as she's such a babe, more like a dog than a cat!
 
Pharaoh's rig op was about £2500 plus another £100 to take his stiches out after as they were meant to dissolve but didnt! Then his uveitis that was about 2 weeks after him coming out for the rig op and it cost about £1500 plus the check ups when he got back home. Although I dread to think how much he has cost over the last few years with the uveitis and also how much it will cost when he goes in for testing..... my poor mum!
 
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