Video about crooked (overkill) vets - Page 2

Cheryl,

Come to my clinic, we will spay your dog for $96, it's all about the money after all

Vet nightmares,

I recently had a pup break a leg,  long story but the vet put a pin in his leg.   When I went back to have the pin removed the bones had grown over the pin and the vet told me it was more trouble to dig it out than it would be just to leave it in.

He waited too long.   I was asured this would be ok, I think he used words like 90% of the time theres no problem.  He then charged me for the x-ray.  Even tho he screwed this up and I have no real guarantee my dog wont someday have a problem he still charged me for the x-ray.   Grand total was around $500.00.  Everytime I've purchased interceptor the price was different.  X-rays for OFA on two different dogs the price was different.   I think they charge you what they feel like on any given day.    Kind of like going before a judge who had a bad morning, ten years to life for that broken tail light.

All I can say is shop around. 

Insurance companies?   I wont even discuss these spawns of satan, cousins to lawyers and offspring of banks.

$3000 for pyo surgery??  Sounds like a bill more for Pyo TREATMENT - isn't Pyo "surgery" just a spay?  Can't imagine anyone falling for that - don't people ask before allowing the vet to do whatever they want to do?  Of course they don't.  That's why vets sell millions of people Science Diet corn-food, and then treat their dogs with drugs for their allergies and ear infections - people just assume the vet is  always trying to help and doing the right thing.  Which <usually> they are.  But it's up to the individual dog owner to ask the questions, get the estimate before the "procedure", ask WHY and then ask someone else (sedond opinion) - unless it is an emergency, there are always those choices.

molly

VBK9,

I knew a vet once who was kind and good, he was old.   From the old school.    Alot of todays vets are fresh out of school and in debt up to the eyeballs.  Its still always about the money.   Its not so much that its expensive as it is about bad vets.

Its not just this profession, my dentist should be tared and feathered.    Its just what our world has become.

Everybody should post the good experiences they have had at the Vet.    

Before there were vets?   There was natural selection.    And man still had the knowledge about caring for animals himself.

People today know nothing about anything that has to do with survival, and its only been a couple of hundred years.

It's a shame.

VBK9, $96 is very reasonable and fair for a simple spay and if given the chance I'm pretty sure most here would use your vet or one like him or her. The average price for a loarge dog spay in this area is $300.  Simple dogs castrations run anywhere from $150 to $200.  

Some vets around here mark up their drugs over 300% and complain about providing scripts so the meds can be purchased on line for half what they are charging. My vet for example charged me more for 30 Rimadyl for an very old rescued dog than I paid for an entire bottle of 100 off the net. I told her if she'd sell me the bottle for the same price as I could buy in on the net including the shipping, I'd buy it from her. She opted to write me a script. We both know she could have done that and still made a nice profit.

Same thing happened recently to friend in NY - same vet she has used for over 25 years. One of her beagles developed congestive heart failure and the vet prescribed a drug that cost her $75 for a month's supply - one a day. She found the same med on the net, a bottle of 100 for $45 including shipping.  She confronted her vet asking for a script, he got all angry at her saying he had alreday ordered her 2 bottles and would now have to return them and pay a restocking fee. I never head of that, did you? He later called her back and apologized, seem he's been over-charging her for this medication for the last 18 months, said his tech made a mistake and marked it up too much so now he can offer her the bottles of 100 for the same price as the internet store. She's found a new vet and doesn't plan to go back there again. This is the same vet who charged us $25 per puppy for their first vac, $1,000 to treat a bitch that pyo'd and $195 for an OFA hip xray not including the OFA free.

Anyway, it's good to know that there are still vets around who charge fair prices to their clients. One of the vets I worked for never overcharged for anything either the other 4 did. Too bad that the good vets get included with the bad ones.

VBK9, I agree 100%!

Although I have had a run in or two with vets that are simply out of their mind, 98% of my experiences have been fair! And I am not shy to shop around, ask and walk out!

But, I have a close relationship with several vets. Vets that will help me get supplies at cost so that I can nurse a litter of rescue pups through parvo. Most of my vets also know my history and are located in small stripcenters, old buildings and still practice because they love the animals.

Blitzen, I agree. Seems that a lot of the mixed country practices are much more reasonable than the specialised small animal practices.

How about starting a thread with the good vetstories for once!!!! Why does everything have to be negative!

Someone help me spell Pharmicutical?  Now theres a money making racket!!!  And not just K9.  We are held by our very lives for ransom. 

Anyway you figure it out...   I'm gonna go before I end up having a bad day

good luck.

Now with that I agree!

I went to buy Doxi at Walmart for $40 for 200 (by prescription for the dogs). I also called Walgreens and they wanted right at $80. So yes, businesses and the pharma industry are way out of control!!!!

VBK9:

I don't believe all vet's are like that,. I just wish some of the vet procedure prices people quote on here were prices that vets around my area would charge.  Blitzen mentioned $195 for ofa hip xrays - and I recently paid close to $300.00.  It is not just about money with me - I have no problem taking my dogs to the vet and do so more often than most people, but this topic brings up points that I have to consider.  I always figured it was better to have my dogs in a practice that had all the top equipment, just in case I  had an emergency, but now I am not sure if that is necessary.  Maybe I find a smaller practice for day to day issues and just use a local emergency vet if  and when necessary. 

Cheryl