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Posted on 07-27-10 10:42:37 PM

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$800 just for a checkup and shots? I take two of my cats at a time to a vet for a yearly checkup and shots and the bill is usually somewhere around $150 (about $75 for each cat). So, for all five, that's a yearly total of $375, still nowhere close to $800. Unless you just don't have any other vets in your area, I would suggest shopping around a bit.

One of my two male cats, Hermes, is a really large polydactyl that hates getting his claws trimmed at the vet, and the last time we took him, he screamed and struggled so badly, it took two veterinary assistants to restrain him while the vet continued to clip his claws. He even peed all over the exam table. And yet, even with all that, the vet told us that he wasn't unruly enough to sedate.

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Posted on 07-28-10 01:24:37 PM

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	Originally posted by Flying Omelette $800 just for a checkup and shots? Anesthesia. Its expensive. But glad you had insurance, Anya. One of my cats named Sam had eaten about a foot of thread from my mom's sewing spool. He wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed. It wrapped around inside his stomach and caused him to not eat or drink for a few days before we noticed. We took him in and it was $1700 for the surgery (no insurance back then). My dad paid something at the time, but not nearly the full amount. A week later Sam died. It was about 2 months later that my dad got a collections call on the rest of the bill. He said they killed my cat, I'm not paying anything more. So they said they'd handle it and never called again. Never found out what happened to the collections, but my dad never said anything about it so I guess it cleared up. ____________________

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Posted on 07-28-10 03:28:11 PM

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True, but she might be able to pay less if she can find a vet capable of handling the cats without anesthesia.

Like I said, it took a vet and two assistants to restrain this gigantic dude of mine, and yet they did it and told me anesthesia wasn't necessary.

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Posted on 07-29-10 01:25:16 AM

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Sometimes vets/ doctors ring up expensive procedures when they aren't exactly necessary, especially if business is slow. That may or may not be the case here, but I kinda feel that a vet should be able to do a routine check-up-and-shots without sedating the animal (except if it has a feral/ wild background/ genetic makeup). I mean, that's one of the things they get taught at vet school, right? How to handle Fluffy when he is resisting the thing taking his temperature?

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Posted on 07-29-10 11:58:33 PM

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	My sister-in-law runs her own vet and I talked to her before all of this. She told me that it is normal to sedate an animal in order to do a check-up on them. This is to lower the stress for the pet and even their owners. It's cheaper in the long run to have the insurance, especially when an emergency pops up. My cats are now back to normal, acting like they usually do. ____________________

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