..in terms of vet/health related fees either directly yourself of what the insurance has paid out. Please also tell us the breed and age of dog as well as any specific health issues your dog has had (though not required). Just wondering
Will have to spend a bit of time remembering all the odd vet visits! I do know though it is comparatively low.I have been extremely lucky with the health of my dogs and have only had to go for very minor problems, and am also very lucky to have a reasonably priced vet. I don 't have insurance. I normally expect to pay about £30 for a visit which would include the consultation and any injections or tablets. The most expensive visit was when Gertie (lurcher) was badly bitten by a GSD - the treatment I think was about £300, but was paid through the insurance of the GSD's owner.
Breagh cost us about £700 with her Bloat / torsion. Beau / Skye / Mij / Fingal / Willow - nothing serious or expensive. Just odd things here and there. We have them insured now but looking back at my non insured dog history - we've been very lucky. Getting Willow (IWH) insured was a shock to the system.
My dogs are incredibly healthy, so there isn't much. Four months ago I spent 100.00 because Pearl lost the helpful bacteria in her stomach and intestines. She is still on medication. When Rita was dumped over my front fence a few years ago I spent about 200.00 curing her pneumonia and keeping her on meds for allergies and a heart problems. I give my own shots and do my own worming and take care of minor stuff myself. That's all I've had for a lot of years.
After many years of only visiting the vet for little more than boosters, for the last two years Eddie the Beagle's health issues have become the main focus of my canine research. @Azz This was a scary question, as the last 12 months has covered Tweeds skin, heart & lung, and terminal nasal problems, as well as Eddie's rectal polyps, hypothyroid diagnosis, and his broken carnassial tooth. I have just spent 10 minutes on the calculator, and my total vet bill from 31.07.14 is an eye watering £2785.72. This does not include any of the supplements or probiotics which I either use, or have tried for Eddie's Ulcerative Colitis. Neither dog was insured. My vets may not be the cheapest, but they are available 24/7, and most of them have specialist qualifications. Most importantly, I trust their ability to do their best for my dogs. Tweed was 13 1/2, and Eddie is 7, so if I was to divide their total vet bills by 21 dog years, I reckon I would still be better off than if they had been insured. There is also a good chance that Eddie would also have had exclusions applied to his bowel problems by now. Having said that, I hope the next 12 months might be a little kinder to our savings.
As Pereg was not insured [no insurance then and as far as I know there is still none] - I really do not want to even think about what her regular blood tests, high doses of medication, plus all necessary supplements cost. These things were necessary so I could not see the point in keeping a check of them. It was not that I could afford it, more a case of I had no choice. But I do not resent one penny of what it all cost. Now this might sound crazy, but when Ram came round at what - 1am? - and she was finally at peace, he took her out wrapped in a new knee blanket and came back in with her harness and collar with her tags. My wallet was on the table and I just told him to take what I owed him. I still have no idea how much he took but I trusted him. I do not keep small value notes or coins in my wallet, just 100 and 200 shekel notes. And I told him I did not want a receipt. Crazy or what?
In the year I've had Gwylim so far he's only cost me £11.50 for his yearly Rabies vaccination which is compulsory in Hungary. Over the past two years I've paid out around £500 for Georgina this includes yearly vaccinations, 6 surgeries on her eyes which required a specialist, GA, antibiotics and eye drops plus weekly check ups (for which there was no charge). Treatment for a hematoma on her cornea, and antibiotics for a sorely paw. She had her (hopefully) last operation on her eyes last Wednesday and the bill came to £48 which includes the consultation a couple of days before and her check up next Monday. I forgot ... it also includes the cost of her being microchipped!
Another thing I forgot to include in the £500 was the cost of Georgina being spayed which was done last year when she had her 5th eye op!
That is one less to worry about. Still costs but if a bitch has had her current rabies shot and is also chipped, the cost is half price - probably in the region of ~£85 as the Ministry of Agriculture supplements spaying. Tikva is still too young and too small for her rabies shot and chipping - she should be due any time after another month and knowing Vadim he will not charge me for either. As for when she will be ready to be spayed - who knows.It all depends when she has her first season and crunchie knows when that will be, Ram will spay her maybe three months after that, but it will be up to him when the time is due. I would prefer to wait as long as possible but as the only way she can go out is at the front, I do not want to risk any accidents.
INSUR: 42.00 a month /504 a yr. PennHip test: roughly 310.00 (he passed) Worn and flea Meds. 278.00 6 months will raise next month since he is now in a new weight class. Puppy strangle Meds: everything was around 50.00 Breed: Mastiff So far very healthy, and good hips, which is one of the biggest issues in the breed.
Indie has cost me the most, in total possibly around the £7k mark, but a lot of that was when she was insured as a youngster, thankfully! Tau next, but most of that was an emergency c-section and related to breeding. Rhuna's hardly cost me anything, same for Zasa and Guilty. The main costs I incur regularly are health tests with a view to breeding.
Copper is a greyhound/lab mix and he really hasn't had much in the way of vet bills due to health. He goes to the vet yearly for shots and heart worm tests and that costs about $150. His meds (heart worm and flea prevention) run around $150 to $200 annually. He had to go to the emergency vet a couple of times: 1. Because he was bitten by my parents' dog as a pup when the older dog had enough of him jumping on him. That bill was around $150. 2. Because he was allergic to dog biscuits and broke out in a rash. That bill was around $100.
Staffy x Whippet, 13 years old £120-ish to have his teeth cleaned. Edit: he had a few vaccinations when he was younger.
Assuming Pereg had been [able to be] insured before the Monster, ie epilepsy hit her, it would not have covered her once it had. I would still have had to pay for her three-monthly regular check-ups although it would have paid for her three or six-monthly major blood tests according to the results of the regular ones, and her prescription Phenobarbitone. But no insurance would have covered her basic but still necessary check-ups, nor the necessary supplements which helped her liver cope with the Pb. It also does not cover spays/neuters although Pereg was already spayed. It does not cover either regular or rabies shots, or any dental work.. In fact pet insurance, however "100%" it sounds like, mostly is not. Had my beloved Pereg had broken a leg from one of the stones that used to be thrown at her by the horrid boys - who have vanished since they heard that she had died,, the insurance would have not have paid, saying that the broken leg was caused by her epilepsy. Am I going to have Tikva insured, if there is pet insurance here now? No.
A little over $900 it includes multiple visits though A couple OFA hip appointments, a dental, a small tumor removal and a couple breeding related.
Don't care how much I've spent on my girl. I can't put a price on how much she means to me. Currently it's at $5200, 2 cruciates and a snakebite (on Boxing day). She's an 11yr Mal who thinks she's still in her prime
Ignoring spay/neuters, initial vaccinations, puppy worm/flea stuff mine haven't been too bad. Hiccup got meningitis and his tests and treatment cost around £300 Rory has an eye infection and Frodo a bladder infection (or something), so about £30 each there. Sam had a bloat scare which thankfully turned out to be nothing, but did cost £150 for emergency fees and tummy settlers. Frodo split his side open and was too wimpy for staples, so needed to go under to get stitched up. That was somewhere around £100, I think. Rory was probably the worst when he swallowed the skewer. There was a whole fiasco with that, everything should have cost around £800 - £900. I paid £400 and they wrote the rest off because of the sh*t we went through.
No insurance for my 6 JRT's ages 8, 8 & 1/2, 6 years old Only vets bills I pay for are yearly boosters, flea & worm treatment which work out roughly £180 per year all in (vets do package buy 2 get one free which is great for me)
