Vets Bill

Liz �£230 for one tooth is extortionate. They charge per tooth, and really you shouldnt be expected to pay anymore than �£130. I'll see if i can find a recent bill for my cats teeth

this was for 7 teeth removed

1 ga cats �£60.50 (this was the full blood test)
1 routine dental cats �£33.28
7 simple tooth extraction �£25.41
1 pre anaesthetic blood test �£33.28
1 mouse 69p (that was a present!)

total was �£153.16 including VAT

so if i had chosen to not have the full blood tests it would have been just under �£100 for 7 teeth

 

About a year after we got Polly our rescue cat she went for her vaccinations and check up. The vet was concerned about her teeth and removed all but 6 of them (one fell out later on it's own so she now has 5!) He was concerned about her jaws which were very spongy and so rang me at work to see if I would agree to a leukemia test. This was done and proved negative. He believed that she had been run over before we got her and that this had caused her jaws to be spongy. I was very impressed with the standard of treatment she had, I took her in in the mornng and picked her up after work in the evening and they did a check up later to see if she was healing well. It cost me �£150 in total which seemed a lot at the time so I now have insurance which I haven't needed but I would rather have that safety net than a large vets bill. Polly manages well with 5 teeth and has dried food rather than tinned as it would appear that this started her teeth problems and she catches mice and eats them. I haven't seen her new vet much but he seems OK, he found the incident of the chicken very amusing which is another story entirely!

 

Hi all, it does seem my vet bill is a lot for one tooth. I am confused as Brian my gardener friend had tooth problems with his cat Molly and she had several teeth out, and the others cleaned for under �£100- at the same vet as mine. :confused: Molly didn't have blood tests or Xrays so maybe that is the way to go.
I am surprised Polly manages the dried food, Tatty will eat biscuits if desperate but likes tinned food much better.

 

Hi I have a GSD who developed torsion/bloat very suddenly.. it is a life threatening thing . Luckily we were insured as the bill came to just short of �£1,000. We actually paid just �£50 excess. I think since insurance has become so widespread, it is a green light for vets to think of number and treble it for the bill!!!!

 

Liz one of my cats has 2 teeth and he can eat anything, infact he wolfs his food down.he bites hard as well!!! Cats don't actually need teeth, their gums can handle anything - another one only has 4 canines and he manages fine - i give them wet and dry, the wet is more a treat and dry is the staple.
I actually get discounts now as I've spent so much there in the last couple of months - the vet says i should take shares out :confused: you can also get a FREE dental check up for them after 6 months.

Eileen, phew that would hae been a heafty bill ! Thats when them being insured comes into it's own as alot of people would have to just have their pet put to sleep with bills like that.

You can also make arrangements with vets to pay off a bill per month - most would rather treat the animal for the animals sake, but you do get the pure money money money vets which are in the wrong profession if you ask me.

We used to have a lovely vet but he died, he would charge either �£6 or �£7, that was his 2 prices, and i took 2 in together once and i only got charged the �£7 - then a chain of vets took over his practice and the prices were more like �£30 and �£50. The nice vet lived in a not too fancy house, but he loved being a vet. They don't seem to exist nowadays.

 

We had a vet many years ago, who was absolutely brilliant. One of our cats at the time was hit by a car. He had a smashed hip and leg. My wife took him to the vet expecting to have the cat put down. Because I was out of work at the time, we didn`t think we could afford the treatment. However, the vet told my wife, " I know how you love your animals so I will not charge you for nmy time. I will just charge you for the materials ". And that is what he did. It cost us about a quarter of what it should have done.

 

We've just had to take one of our guinea pigs to the vet for an ear infection - poor mite was very miserable and would hardly walk, we were worried we were going to lose him! The examination and a course of antibiotics cost us only �£22. We've previously had the same guinea pig neutered (�£33) and a very tiny baby guinea had a leg amputated and a course of antibiotics, and that only cost us �£35. They really are good, and very friendly too

 

As with anything else, you get good and bad. Some vets will tell you how much they love animals, while screwing you for as much as they can get. Others seem almost embarressed to take money off you, while giving exceptional service.