Expensive day at the vets

[andyjanet]

Jessie has needed the toilet more frequently than normal and if she relaxes she can dribble a bit
Whilst in Glasgow with a vet a mile down the road I could get an appointment for this morning I takes a walk down in the sunshine, the vet confirms she doesn’t have a water infection and gives me some HRT for her £42
So we walks the mile back to the van,
It’s such a lovely day I decide to go out for a five mile run which turns into 6.5 because a bridge is closed over the river and I couldn’t get thru the park,
I gets back knackered from all this exercise has a shower then takes jess outside before lunch where she gets a piece of glass in her pad on her rear foot, I tried to remove it but it was too well in, so phone the vets and carry jess down to the vets for a small operation to remove the glass £110 Please
I am then told don’t get her foot wet as I’ve used glue to stick it back together look out the window PISSING DOWN, I then asked for a plastic bag to cover her foot whilst I carried her back in the rain THEY WANTED 5P FOR A PLASTIC BAG
NO THANKS

TODAYS TALLY
£152 to the vets
2 miles walking
2miles walking carrying a 10 kilo dog
6.5 miles running because I thought I needed some exercise
Jessie laying asleep on the settee and I’m getting ready to make dinner for everybody,
Wish I had a crystal ball

 

[Exwindsurfer]

you dont want to many days like that Andy.

 

[saxonborg]

Our retriever had a foot problem and small op, the vet put a used blood serum bag over the dressing, no charge and much tougher than a regular plastic bag. Anyway you should consider yourself lucky that it wasn’t a 35kg dog, hope the dogs’ ok though.

 

[The laird]

Jessie has needed the toilet more frequently than normal and if she relaxes she can dribble a bit
Whilst in Glasgow with a vet a mile down the road I could get an appointment for this morning I takes a walk down in the sunshine, the vet confirms she doesn’t have a water infection and gives me some HRT for her £42
So we walks the mile back to the van,
It’s such a lovely day I decide to go out for a five mile run which turns into 6.5 because a bridge is closed over the river and I couldn’t get thru the park,
I gets back knackered from all this exercise has a shower then takes jess outside before lunch where she gets a piece of glass in her pad on her rear foot, I tried to remove it but it was too well in, so phone the vets and carry jess down to the vets for a small operation to remove the glass £110 Please
I am then told don’t get her foot wet as I’ve used glue to stick it back together look out the window PISSING DOWN, I then asked for a plastic bag to cover her foot whilst I carried her back in the rain THEY WANTED 5P FOR A PLASTIC BAG
NO THANKS

TODAYS TALLY
£152 to the vets
2 miles walking
2miles walking carrying a 10 kilo dog
6.5 miles running because I thought I needed some exercise
Jessie laying asleep on the settee and I’m getting ready to make dinner for everybody,
Wish I had a crystal ball

Get doing this weeks lottery ,your in my man??

 

[Jeanette]

We took our pup to see the vet about three weeks ago and she didn’t do anything but she said that would be £35/40 consultation fee Malcolm nearly fell through the floor! So did I when he came back and told me

 

[Clunegapyears]

Tonight should have been a takeaway night. Oops, no, too much money spent at vets!

 

[andyjanet]

Tonight should have been a takeaway night. Oops, no, too much money spent at vets!

Forget the takeaway we can’t eat for three weeks ???

 

[Jeanette]

Forget the takeaway we can’t eat for three weeks ???

Ppfftt three weeks we’re still not eating! ?

 

[Clunegapyears]

Dry dog biscuits?

 

[jagmanx]

We took our pup to see the vet about three weeks ago and she didn’t do anything but she said that would be £35/40 consultation fee Malcolm nearly fell through the floor! So did I when he came back and told me

Get a stronger floor !
Vets are expensive...
Premises nurse reception insurance drugs and their fee...How many years training ?

 

[Trotter]

Neighbors daughter is training as a vet. I’ve no idea how long she’s been at Uni. It must be 5 years or more. I know when she’s home, she works in a local vet, FOC.
Thinking on it, a GP only has to know about two different bodies, or a combination of both,lol.
A vet, well there’s lots init. Hampster to a Cart Horse .

 

[jagmanx]

Ask Channa - Reptiles
Ask Wilhelm- Polar Bears
Ask me - Sloth Bears
Ask any MP - (No I won't go there !)

 

[Millie Master]

As for your leaking lady four legged friend and in particular the occasional leaking problem, we have had several older lady rescue dogs with the same kind of leaking problems and have found that Urilin works very well indeed.... https://www.animeddirect.co.uk/uril...MI4dny5t-S4QIVLrHtCh3MdAdAEAAYASAAEgID6vD_BwE

As for her cut pad, ouch, the poor little love............. we had to pull off one of our dogs claws last night as it had got damaged!

Four legged friends, we love them to bits

 

[snapster]

Took our dog to the vets yesterday because he has a lump near his groin. Thought it might be a hernia but the vets says it’s just a fatty lump. He has a few smaller ones on him as well, but he is getting on a bit now and a little overweight ( he’s a beagle who eats everything he can)
10 minute consultation, cost? €0.

 

[andyjanet]

Took our dog to the vets yesterday because he has a lump near his groin. Thought it might be a hernia but the vets says it’s just a fatty lump. He has a few smaller ones on him as well, but he is getting on a bit now and a little overweight ( he’s a beagle who eats everything he can)
10 minute consultation, cost? €0.

€0 cost is a bonus

 

[Iandsm]

Jessie has needed the toilet more frequently than normal and if she relaxes she can dribble a bit
Whilst in Glasgow with a vet a mile down the road I could get an appointment for this morning I takes a walk down in the sunshine, the vet confirms she doesn’t have a water infection and gives me some HRT for her £42
So we walks the mile back to the van,
It’s such a lovely day I decide to go out for a five mile run which turns into 6.5 because a bridge is closed over the river and I couldn’t get thru the park,
I gets back knackered from all this exercise has a shower then takes jess outside before lunch where she gets a piece of glass in her pad on her rear foot, I tried to remove it but it was too well in, so phone the vets and carry jess down to the vets for a small operation to remove the glass £110 Please
I am then told don’t get her foot wet as I’ve used glue to stick it back together look out the window PISSING DOWN, I then asked for a plastic bag to cover her foot whilst I carried her back in the rain THEY WANTED 5P FOR A PLASTIC BAG
NO THANKS

TODAYS TALLY
£152 to the vets
2 miles walking
2miles walking carrying a 10 kilo dog
6.5 miles running because I thought I needed some exercise
Jessie laying asleep on the settee and I’m getting ready to make dinner for everybody,
Wish I had a crystal ball

I don’t know about pissing down with rain. I recon on the circumstances to ask for 5p for a plastic bag was really talking the piss, they could have offered a poo bag or similar and should be ashamed of themselves.

 

[Rec]

Chloe had a shallow ulcer on her eye since September. Weekly visits £47, plus debridement twice @ £70. Plus costs of drops for first couple of months (£45 week!) Suggestions of referral to opthalmology specialist refused as just cannot afford it. I bought the eye drops online for less than half the price, and changed weekly to ten days in January, as was not seeing the same vet each time, so how could they judge the healing? Finally healed but a week later has , I think, reappeared ....she is closing the eye again. Taking her to Portuguese vet next week for second opinion.

On another note we give her blueberries (5) daily as they are supposed to help dogs with urine issues. Has had no UTI since we started! Coincidence? Don't know but does no harm!