$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. |