Yikes! $320 to have a dog spayed? - Page 2

I just called my vet and asked what it would cost for a 60-70 lb. female and they said right at $100.00. Glad I live here!!

Call the humane society. They can usually steer you to a cheaper alternative.

I'll have to do some comparison shopping. The vet that gave me the $320 price was the same one that was so nice when Jake was diagnosed with stomach cancer and had to be put down. They felt so bad about what I had been through with the first vet, they didn't charge me anything. So figured they would give me a fair price.

Just remember folks.  You get what you pay for!  For me I choose a vet by his skill not by what he charges.  A human would not have a surgery with out blood work first and IV fluids durring surgery.  Why on earth would you want to choose minimal health care for a dog that loves you with all its heart and soul!?!  Especially for a surgery that the dog has no choice in!!

I ask for a full panel pre-anesthetic blood work up and IV fluids to support the liver and kidney functions durring surgery.  A full panel tells you of the dog's overall condition as to disease, infection, kidney or liver failure........

IV fluids also support the liver and kidneys durring surgery.  A healthy animal may not really need all that but I also look at it another way.  If you have an IV cath. in a dog, you have an open line to administer any emergency drugs incase the dog crashes as a result of a reaction to anesthesia or just whatever!  Weird things can happen when you least expect it!

Vickie

www.PowerHausKennels.com

I really like the vet office I got the quote from. She is my regular vet and will let me stay thru operations etc. At that office if a dog is over 7 years of age they require a full blood panel first, but not on younger dogs.

It's not always you get what you pay for.  There is a VERY high end clinic here that you have to have a referral for unless it's an emergency.   A friend of mine took his female there when she started having problems during labor.  Best place to go in 4 counties.  $3500 later, csection and then they spayed the female. Said it was necessary.  Was there for 3 days, spiking fevers, etc.  Took her to my reg. vet and his btw, xrayed the female, there was a dead pup inside of her that they "missed" yet they did an xray, plus she was leaking blood because they didn't suture correctly inside.  Bitch didn't need to be spayed.  Apparently, from someone who works there, they push a spay even though they know it's not medically necessary.  They're choosing to play god.  They refunded half his money, and my vet reported them to the state licensing board. 

Landholz,

If you spay a bitch when the puppies are c-sectioned you remove the uterus and the uterine horns and the overies.  How can a puppy be left behind if you remove the very organ that carries the puppy....was the puppy stuck in the pelvis?  Nine years of tech work says that just dont jive!

Also too, the c-section was an emergency procedure, was it not?  Emergency procedures c-sections and general spay are apples to oranges in my book.

Vickie

www.PowerHausKennels.com

Your common sense and my common sense tell me that too.  So did his, but that's why she was running the fever 4 days later and my vet opened her back up.   The whole job was screwed up which is why the company was reported to the state and he is pursuing malpractice against them. This company routinely spays on emer. c-sections according to an employee there instead of just doing a c-section.  Won't be some place I take any of my bitches to!  My vet will actually come in the office in the middle of the night now if she has to.