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Vet fees

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£60 for some worming treatment recently, going to be £200 to get her sterilised I think and I pay £34 a month insurance. They told me to join Pet club at £13 a month to get 10% off the spaying and the worming treatment would have been cheaper, wtf am I paying insurance for.

For supposed animal lovers they will let your animal suffer if you can't pay.
 

Blue Cheese said:
£60 for some worming treatment recently, going to be £200 to get her sterilised I think and I pay £34 a month insurance. They told me to join Pet club at £13 a month to get 10% off the spaying and the worming treatment would have been cheaper, wtf am I paying insurance for.

For supposed animal lovers they will let your animal suffer if you can't pay.
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Yep.
But in practically every other country other than the uk, with its NHS they treat humans the same.
Will be the same here if the self interested party gets in again.
 
The Cowboy said:
Why didn't you just tell them to do one?
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The misses took him, I was at an Everton away game somewhere.

I went to his follow up though and they wanted to remove via surgery whatever it was on his 'lip' even though they said it was benign. I refused and it disappeared on its own after a couple of weeks.
 
COYBL25 said:
One of the main reasons vets fees are so expensive is due a crazy licensing ruling by Europe over the drugs that they use.

Up until quite recently they were able to use diluted versions of common drugs that were used for humans too. Particularly pain killers. This kept the cost of the drugs they used down to a certain extent.

However the way animal drugs were licensed was changed, meaning that even though something like Ibuprofen could be safely used on both humans and animals, it had to be re licensed before it could be used on animals.

This involved teams of red tape, testing and also the drug companies saw an opportunity to rebrand and make lots of money.

Also the likes of the super vets, such as " Pets at Home " etc are creating a monopoly by forcing little vet practises out of business, as they can't compete with them / sell out to them.

The vets in the the likes of Pets at Home, are salaried on about 40k a year, which is a good wage, but not a super wage, when you think they've done seven years to get their degree.
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Didn't know that. When did that change ? ; on the medicines for my horses it still says words like Buscopan (also good for humans).

For me they deserve their money. My veterinarian is something like 1.55 m (something around 5 feet I think) and very skinny. She spends her days with her arms up horses and cows, giving injections to horses who are much larger than her and who aren't in a good mood... Quite a hazardous occupation from time to time.
 
Armel said:
Didn't know that. When did that change ? ; on the medicines for my horses it still says words like Buscopan (also good for humans).

For me they deserve their money. My veterinarian is something like 1.55 m (something around 5 feet I think) and very skinny. She spends her days with her arms up horses and cows, giving injections to horses who are much larger than her and who aren't in a good mood... Quite a hazardous occupation from time to time.
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Free ket though.
 

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