Most expensive vet bill and why

princess_loki

welshmoneylover wrote: »

@ princess. personally I would take the view that I would stop when the animal says it has had enough. Medicine is a marvellous thing, but there are side effects, which can outway the benefits. *ignoring cost*

Difficult choice indeed x

the old boy is at home and asserting his status with the young one... all ok apart from daily meds and being fussy about food!

BitterAndTwisted

One of my darlings developed a swelling on the side of her face so off to the Vet's she went. They decided that she needed a dental right away and while she was under the anaesthetic they took a biopsy. When the results came back a couple of days later she was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour and was put to sleep less than 24 hours later. £700 and no insurance. I still miss her terribly. RIP Little Girl

rachiee

i also had one for my little welsh pony foal! he had been piching his mums food when i wasnt looking and got blocked up, we thought we had lost him luckily the vet saved him after about 5 hours of rubbing his tummy hes okay now hes 3

KVet

Flower08 wrote: »

Our highest bill was for our cat who decided to go and play on a main road. Predictably she got hit by a car and idiot who was driving didnt bother to stop!! We thought we had lost her until we received a phone call from a vets two days later "we have good news - we've got your cat, the bad news - you owe us £600!". Shes worth every penny though.
Now we're lucky if she goes to the end of the garden - she certainly learnt her lesson!

The vets shouldn't really have made you pay the bill as a) you never signed consent for them to do the procedures and b) you never had a binding witten agreement with them that you were liable for the bills. Its a legal issue that has happened a good few times to us but usually the bills are fairly low and the owners are ok with paying if we ask them but legally we cant make them pay.

patchwork_cat

Mostexpensive £2500 for our dog who had a kidney removed, recently £600 for our cat that had cancer, we had to have her put down adn she was only 3.

thriftmonster

£750 when one of dogs attacked the other. The victim had a fractured skull - 3 days at the vets, an operation 2 weeks later to remove all the gangrenous tissue, 3 months of antibiotics, weekly follw up visits for 10 weeks and a facial reconstruction stitching all the new tissue together when he finally grew the new skin needed. Amazing for all the work done - and they never charged us when the other dog was PTS at the time of the attack. Our vets are fantastic.

Flower08

KVet wrote: »

The vets shouldn't really have made you pay the bill as a) you never signed consent for them to do the procedures and b) you never had a binding witten agreement with them that you were liable for the bills. Its a legal issue that has happened a good few times to us but usually the bills are fairly low and the owners are ok with paying if we ask them but legally we cant make them pay.

Know what you mean, but at the end of the day if he hadnt carried out the procedures she wouldnt be with us today! I would never try and con a hardworking vet out of money for saving my much beloved cats life!

olibrofiz

The dobie used up the £6000 per condition on the insurance within three weeks back in Jan. In the last 6 months she's cost me about £2000 in blood tests, meds, setbacks, consultation fees etc, etc.

But thanks to advice from lovely people on here I managed to pay a bit less last month. :T:T

princess_loki

my old boy has taken a turn for the worse - typically on a bank holiday.

hasn't been eating and is following me around the house making strange mewing noises or sleeping in the bathroom which is odd.

he stopped eating his salmon on wednesday so we gave him white fish. then he went off that too so i cleared it with the vet for him to have pork. i am now worried that the pork was harder to digest and it is blocking him up.

he is starving because i gave him an appetite stimulant (every 3 days as prescribed) but has not been interested in anything apart from the tin of cod roe that i got for him just now.

really worried that he may have had a mini fit or something in the night because his behaviour is just odd............

*onlyme*

Oh Ambrose you handsome cat! You need to ask Santa for a bigger bed tho...or are you like our cats...the smaller the better?

My most expensive vetbill was £301 which insurance paid for a tail amputation on our cat. What he got up to I don't even want to think about but he now has no tail what-so-ever