It was getting tough in 2006 and the workhouse still threatens us in 2011

suki1964

mardatha wrote: »

Well if they're doing it to smiley then they doing it to every school kid who has a pet mouse and upwards...and every pensioner who loves her cat or dog dearly. I think its just greed and contempt for their clients.

I know this is going to offend some people but a few years back now, on the Chris Evans breakfast show ( before he got the sack that time) they done a piece on how to humanely put down your small pets without it having to cos a fortune at the vet

For rodents and birds it was offered that the easiest and most humane way was to gas them with car exhaust fumes ( I wont explain how ) but I know that I personally couldn't do it and would need a vet.

And vets know this and charge accordingly

GreyQueen

smileyt wrote: »

I didn't pay the bill at the vet's on Wednesday when I had the hens put to sleep as I was too upset, but they are OK with this and agree beforehand that you can pop in or phone a couple of days later to settle the bill. I have just done this and it came to £104. I've asked for an itemised receipt so I can see what cost so much. I know I booked a double appointment because there were two hens so I was expecting a bill of around £65, perhaps a little bit more for the disposal of the girls' bodies, but £104? How can it cost so much to put two hens to sleep? I feel a bit sick. I am glad I made the decision not to have any more animals (only have the dogs now) as I really could not sustain that kind of price. Fortunately I have some savings which I can use to cover the bill. It's a good job I was sitting down when I made the phone call.

I'm going to have a cup of tea and try to get over the shock.

ETA Glitzer I hope it is good news from the scan. xx

Oh Smileyt, that's so awful. The barstewards.:(

Four summers ago, my parents had their beloved cat, a rescue animal about 12-13 years old and in otherwise fine fettle, suddenly stop grooming and start to look a bit miserable. We took him to the vet (Mum and me) and he needed to examine his mouth so the vet put him under so this could be done without distress.

The news was grim; it was oral cancer and not treatable so there was no choice but to euthanise him. Some more anaethesia was supplied and he slipped away. We arranged for the vet to dispose of his poor body and waited for the bill.

Mum nearly had heart failure; it was £130 !!!!!!! And, like yours, it wasn't itemised. I couldn't believe 5 mins of vet's time, some anaethetic and a disposal could cost so much. It really was a kick in the teeth when we were so upset over losing the cat.

This practice had been looking after the family cats for the previous 36 years. I went and paid it and handed them a letter pointing out, courteously but furiously, how outrageous this was and that they had lost our business for the future and the 2 new rescues we'd taken on (9 month old sister-cats) wouldn't be having their jabs and Frontline and any other needs catered for by them.

"The girls", as they are referred to in our family, go to the other vet in town every summer for their check-up and jabs and haven't needed any other vetinary help, thank goodness. I think we'd drive into the next town before we went back to that other crowd.

((hugs)) Honestly, it's coming to a pretty pass when having a small pet or two becomes an unaffordable luxury. Wherever would the vets be without the lucrative domestic small animal market? I could afford to feed a cat but I daren't expose my limited budget to the hostage-to-fortune of needing to pay for vet bills.

(((((smileyt))))))))

lucielle

Sorry to hear your news Smiley T, but had to post, when I had to the deed for my horse it was £100.
L

Glitzer

Oh smileyt I can't believe how much it cost! ((hugs))

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Rainy-Days

Well there are now some smaller building socities which the government have said they will let them fail. If you have more than £30,000.00 in those accounts you need to get it out now and find a safer place for it to go. Anything below this amount the goverment have backed that savers will be guaranteed to get their money back.

RBS will have to have another bail out even though it is already 80% owned by us taxpayers!

Lloyds may have to have another injection but they are saying they are able to hold their own - we'll see!

Co-Operative Bank, Nationwide, Newcastle, Norwich & Peterborough, Nottingham, Principality, Skipton, West Bromwich and Yorkshire have all been downgraded by Moody's and it could be that Newcastle and Skipton will be allowed to fail.

In other words it's back to 2008 all over again.

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RAS

Rainy-Days wrote: »

Well there are now some smaller building socities which the government have said they will let them fail. If you have more than £30,000.00 in those accounts you need to get it out now and find a safer place for it to go. Anything below this amount the goverment have backed that savers will be guaranteed to get their money back.

Please do not cause unnecessary panic here or elsewhere.

The Government raised the limit for single holding to £50,000 a few years ago and last autumn the protected limit was raised to £85,000.

So you savings are safe up to that limit.

The one to watch for is that some of the takeovers mean that companies have amalgated their credit licences and the £85,000 is per credit licence, as I understand it.

So if you have holding savings or other money in two or three branded organisations that are owned by the same parent company, you need to know if they have separate licences.

If they are separate, your money are safe to the limit of £85,000 per institution but if they share a licence you are only covered for one lot of £85,000.

RAS

kittie wrote: »

where on earth did you get that outdated nonsense from? That is unnecessary scaremongering. All regulated banks, building societies and credit unions are safe up to £85k of savings, guaranteed

Snap..............

Seraphim

katieowl wrote: »

What you say about libraries is so true.. when I first came here I went to have a look at my local, and I swear I've got more books than they have!

I'm glad it's not just me... last time I went in, they had about half the books they normally do and most of the shelves were sitting empty. Out the front they were selling all the old books and they haven't replaced them with new stock (yet).

I've given up going to my local libraries because a lot of the books I like to read are in series and they never have the first book - only the second and/or third. And now the shelves are almost bare too