Your largest vet bill so far?

Mines small (really) of just over 1k...

My favourite to date is a crazy woman on our yard whos horse tore its ligament almost right off - its hanging on by a thread and of course the horse should have been PTS -vets said its unfair to keep it alive but she spent £12K on him to send to ireland and have hydrotherapy.... which still didnt work and now the poor bugger lives mainly in a stable and gets a bit of turnout when its not slippery or muddy! He cant do anything because if the thread thats holding his leg together snaps he will have to be PTS which the owner doesnt want. Madness.....
 
£5000 . it should have been more but the vet cocked up the horses treatment so we did not pay the whole bill. It was a bad kick on a knee that had to be flushed clean, they allowed a traniee to bandage him and he developed pressure sores on his tendons, three ops later and nearly 4 month cross tied in the vet center as he started eating his leg, he was well enough to come home. Amazingly he is sound now, but i just kick myself that i let the whole saga happen, i was 15 when he got kicked and never would have stood up to a vet and said i dont like this... still i now have an excellent vet and know better than to go along with something because the other person 'knows best' just wish i hadn't learnt the lesson at my horses expense.:mad::(:mad:
 
My largest to date has been £7000.... that was PAINFUL. Thank goodness for the horses' emergency bank account!

My darling Roy did his best to top that this year though, he was off from May until the beginning of October with his ridiculous string of wounds, and I worked out that in dressings alone he was costing me £73 a week....add to the the three vets visits per week minimum, and all the injections, staples etc etc and you have a very poor Starzaan at the end of it!
 
£550 odd on my JRT earlier this year. He had ulcers on both eyes bless him, thankfully the horses havn't cost me that much so far *touch wood*
 
Almost 5 grand working out how to treat a lung infection (e-coli, ugh) that left him with COPD.

Endoscopy, tracheal wash, another one, another one.

Ventipulmin, Sputulosin, Ventipulmin with antibiotics, horse antibiotics, turkey antibiotics, oral steroids, inhaled steriods, full face diving mask inhaler thingy that he took great exception to and blacked my eye and split my lip (ah, just remembered, it's called an Aeromask) and, finally, the equine haler.

Thank God for NFU Mutual. They were a proper diamond and paid out without question. (Apart from the letter I had to get my vet to write for the Aeromask, which was £150, and is now at the bottom of my tack box).
 
2k on a tendon operation, bless the mare i was rewarded with being dumped and a broken rib!

ps BS have you seen my thread on my new purchase :D
 
£1300, one of my old mares had impacted colic badly and had to stay in horsepital. Another vote for NFU though, they paid up without question in just over a week :)
 
Not a single vet bill but a foal that had over £10k of vet bills in 7 months!!!! Angular limb deformity, OCD in both stifles, infection/heamatoma when gelded and a really bad bout of the runs which ended up in horspital! But he's great now. Worth every penny of NFU's money!!
 
£10k all told when my ultra special homebred mare got an infected tendon (despite no external injury), and even the very best at Newmarket couldn't save her. Would I pay it again? Damn right, I would; that mare meant far more to me than money, and I'm glad it wasn't lack of funds that forced us to take the hardest decision ever. We had tried every option available.

Having to fork out an additional £3k just under a year later when my other mare developed a brain tumour did mean the emergency slush fund was totally emptied and then some, though. All told, a bad year, emotionally as well as financially! (And, no, neither was insured for various reasons).
 
Sticks head up shyly........

If you mean a single bill that was £6600 for an operation, however the total bill, including physio is a LOT more....... I stopped counting when it went past 40K :o
 
wow!! that is devotion!!

my dad would say sorry.. not worth it!!

i am extremely lucky to have a fit and healthy horses..past and present... biggest vets bill... probably £120 for sedation!!
 
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