Vet consultation fees

homeworkgirl

Our Vet consultation fees have just gone up again and I am thinking of going elsewhere. Someone suggested vet in Pets at Home and I wondered if anyone happens to know what their fees are please?

MovingForwards

Where abouts in the UK, city? As someone may be able to recommend a vets.

Might also be best to say if it's a cat/dog/rabbit etc

homeworkgirl

Portsmouth, Hants. I have both a dog and cats.

Red-Squirrel_2

homeworkgirl wrote: »

Our Vet consultation fees have just gone up again and I am thinking of going elsewhere. Someone suggested vet in Pets at Home and I wondered if anyone happens to know what their fees are please?

They vary by location, you'd have to check the ones you were considering.

homeworkgirl

Oh do they? Didnt realise that. Thank you.

sheramber

Each vet decides their own charges.

You can phone and ask for their charges

homeworkgirl

Yes I just thought with PAH being a chain they might have one standard consultation fee countrywide.

sheramber

pets at Home only let out the premises to the vets. They are not part of the veterinary service

The vets are either Vet4pets or Companion Care both of which are a network of vets.

http://www.petsathome.com/shop/en/pets/content/vets

Merlin's_Beard

homeworkgirl wrote: »

Yes I just thought with PAH being a chain they might have one standard consultation fee countrywide.

It's probably closer to franchising than employees working for a big company. So the vet (or whoever owns the practice) will rent the floorspace in the shop. And a square foot in London probably costs a very different amount to a square foot in Cumbria, and the staff will be paid differently (well, the vets, a bit - the nurses are pretty much on minimum wage wherever...) - hence different fees.