Your largest vet bill so far?

Around £2000 after my dog got mauled, amputate ears, pull up the skin on his leg which had slid down like sock with bad elastic, fix it in place with skin graft and sooo much antibiotic and pain relief.

He was never good as new but he was pain free and happy until he died 4 years later. My daddy paid as I couldn't afford it, he is amaxing and I am very lucky that he was able to. All my animals are now insured!!
 
Touching the desk and crossing everything as I write this. Had horses for 35 years and biggest bill is about £150 - coul have bought about 3 horses with the insurance premiums but still keep insuring just in case.

Biggest bill would be the dogs - just had £950 for broncho pneumonia - last dog had cardio myopathy and that cost about £3K during the last years of her life - thank you Petplan.
 
£2500 on the dog after he swallowed this :
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Which came out sideways a couple of times and nearly killed him, thank God for Tesco's!
 
Maximum I have paid on a single condition for a horse was £5500. The most I have ever paid was for my beloved dog who lost his fight against lymphoma (and undiagnosed brain tumor) last year. He was only four years old.The total bill was over £8 k and he still only lasted 8 weeks from diagnososis. Poor boy, I should have had him PTS rather than put him through the chemo and all the trips to the vets. He really suffered and I wish I could turn the clock back!
 
I'm seriously going to jinx it if I say this but so far...

£83

And that's in two years.

Damn these expensive tb's! :D
 
£5,800 when my mare lacerated her eye on a hawthorn bush and needed 2 lots of eye surgery at AHT. She was in for 3 weeks @ £45 per day livery! The eye was saved and she has only lost a couple of % peripheral vision - with thanks To David Donaldson the fantastic eye surgeon extrodinaire that operated on her!

I had only had her 3 months. She took 4 months to recover - she had tooth problem too which meant I couldn't ride for a further 3 months until the highly recommended dentist was back in work from an injury. I then had heart surgery in the July, which meant no riding til November. The I slowly started to get back when her poor eye ulcerated and she had to be off work and I managed to smash my finger in a fencing accident fencing new grazing so no riding for a further 2 months! So all in all after nearly 2 years ownership I had ridden her around 20 times. Bad luck eh?
 
I had a bad spell for a while, but manageable, a couple of operations for my horses, including one where they operated on the wrong leg. Vet bills used to be about $2500 -5000 AUD a year. Had a horse with OCD and another with ligament problem.

But much less now, (I probably spend $1000 a year AUD) I did have my cat put to sleep, rather than operate when he was hit by a car, internal bleeding and spinal injuries, that would have been expensive, but I just felt that it was wrong to put him through any more. I would do the same again.

Colic ops are expensive $5000-10000AUD with about a maybe 50% chance of surviving the op.

I am amazed at the excellent insurance plans you guys seem to have. I had insurance for my first foal that I bred. He was huge when he was born, I asked the vet to check him, and sign the insurance papers to say he was sound. He asked me if he had been born 2 weeks ago, he thought I was lying about his age, despite the mare having afterbirth etc and needing stitching. He signed the papers, I called him back about 2 hours later as the foal's hock started to swell - joint ill. He then refused to submit the forms to insurance until the foal recovered, which it did.

Then about 8 months later the insurance company went broke. After that I never bothered with insurance again. I would say that most horse owners, (pleasure horse, 1 horse or 2 horse owners) would not hold insurancein Aust.

We insure everything else our premiums are $30 000 a year for property,cars, life etc, but cannot get a decent pet/horse plan.
 
jeeve said:
I had a bad spell for a while, but manageable, a couple of operations for my horses, including one where they operated on the wrong leg. Vet bills used to be about $2500 -5000 AUD a year. Had a horse with OCD and another with ligament problem.

But much less now, (I probably spend $1000 a year AUD) I did have my cat put to sleep, rather than operate when he was hit by a car, internal bleeding and spinal injuries, that would have been expensive, but I just felt that it was wrong to put him through any more. I would do the same again.

Colic ops are expensive $5000-10000AUD with about a maybe 50% chance of surviving the op.

I am amazed at the excellent insurance plans you guys seem to have. I had insurance for my first foal that I bred. He was huge when he was born, I asked the vet to check him, and sign the insurance papers to say he was sound. He asked me if he had been born 2 weeks ago, he thought I was lying about his age, despite the mare having afterbirth etc and needing stitching. He signed the papers, I called him back about 2 hours later as the foal's hock started to swell - joint ill. He then refused to submit the forms to insurance until the foal recovered, which it did.

Then about 8 months later the insurance company went broke. After that I never bothered with insurance again. I would say that most horse owners, (pleasure horse, 1 horse or 2 horse owners) would not hold insurancein Aust.

We insure everything else our premiums are $30 000 a year for property,cars, life etc, but cannot get a decent pet/horse plan.
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Hmm
Mac - £10K in vets bills then another £3500 LOU
Atty - £15K

I have price ponies and thank god they were insured, although when you work out 15% of that which is what the excess was I still had to find plenty myself.

Mac was PSD followed by navicular in the sapce over 12 months, Atty was, tooth problems PSD, KS and ligament damage in front feet in the space of 18 months.

Both are now retired and not insured for vet cover.
 
£1800+ back in 1994 for hock arthroscopy op, repair and endless followups & meds/dressings. And I couldn't even claim on insurance :rolleyes:
 
£1500 for my old mare 7 years ago - and she died - cancer found from gullet to rectum in PM...No insurance, sold a horse to pay for it.
£2500 for Mellys hock, insured by petplan and they were wonderful, paid everything. Melly is still broken tho!
 
Previous horse cost me £2500 on a eye ulcer and then 6 months later another £2500 on a gut issues. Horse was PTS a few months later due to a pelvic problem.
 
CeeBee said:
Current bill for Nemo is over £6,300. Haven't had this months bill yet for 6 vet visits to dress wound...
So much for my 'cheap' field companion!
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Total came to £7800 - 6cm laceration right down to fourth carpal bone which had become septic. Spent 3 weeks at Rossdales, then bi weekly visits to dress the wound for a month.

Poor little man is now just about to start a course of Liverpool cream for sarcoid that was removed whilst in Rossdales which has come back 3 times the size :(
 
Our accident prone Springer Spaniel - cost £3k for crown on back tooth which then had to have a metal cap on top of it. He's like bionic dog now. And it doesn't stop there, oh no, vet likes to xray it every 6 months to make sure all that is underneath is ok. Or it is just that he wants a bit more money..........?
 
After reading this thread I am going to go to my 11 year old daughters bedroom and whilst she sleeps I will repeat "You want to become a vet,,,, you want to become a vet". Thus, subliminally I will be training her brain into thinking that she actually wants to become a vet and in another 12 years I will finally be financially secure in my dotage. Thanks H&HO:)
 
£6000 fractured hock surgery in 1992.....but over the course of this one horses 24 year life time:

£5000 colic surgery
£3000 colic surgery yep two of them
C. £5000 in colics that never needed surgery (He was prone to colic!)
About another £3000 on various other stuff like stitches, lameness, virus.

Plus all the regular stuff like teeth and jabs.

He was worth every bloody penny!

I miss him so much. :(

No not rich....I shop at Aldi and their 1997 2p tins of backed beans helped me pay a few vet bills without actually starving but it was a close run thing.
 
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When my Charlie had a bad XC fall about 8 years ago the vets bill ran up to about £15k to put him right, money well spent for sure :D

But, in more recent years I have been very, very lucky, not had many injuries at all. Charlie broke a hock a few years ago and the vet wasnt able to do anything (wanted to put him down :eek: ) so he just had some bute and a very small paddock, was sound within a month and hacking within 2 - that bill came to about £80 :D

Una managed to impale herself on a branch in the hedge (we think) a couple of years ago, that came to about £300 to have the vet stitch it back up.

But, other than routine stuff, vaccs and annual "mots" they havent really had any bills for a while... Touch wood :D
 
I think I'm up to just over £3800 on my horses vet bill (He had a broken leg) - another set of x-rays next week which will take it over £4k.

Thankfully he is insured and Petplan have been fab and paid out straight away!
 
£2000 on scintigrahy scans and x rays after a minor fractured hock- thats the largest horse bill. Largest dog one- £690 for gastro enteritus
 
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