Damn, son. You're getting ripped off on vaccines

The one that kills me is how much flea and heartworm meds are. Though now that Wal-mart is making generics maybe that'll help bring prices down.

1/25/2012 12:04:53 PM

Yeah that reminds me that I need to go buy more, ugh

The bulk of that $200 isn't for the vaccines...

1/25/2012 12:19:12 PM

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"^how long ago was that, and how has it held up?"

It was about 3 years ago that she tore the ACL. The knee is fine now, ligament wise, but when the doc opened it up, he did notice a small amount of arthritis already forming, so she's been taking glucosamine chews ever since and that seems to help her. If she's really active for a day, ie at the dog park for a long time or at a friend's house playing with their dogs, she will limp a little bit that night. By the next morning she's good to go again though.

1/25/2012 12:29:23 PM

Honestly, probably about $500 bucks. My wife would probably argue for more, but its just a pet to me.

1/25/2012 12:31:04 PM

This is why I don't want to get a pet.

I epically don't want to get a pet and a girlfriend at the same time. Bad financial decision city.

Pets shouldn't have tumors removed. Nature put them there. It's the way of life. Humans are the only unnatural species and that's the way we should keep it goddam it.

1/25/2012 12:38:19 PM

ehh, I think it depends on the outcome once the tumor was removed. One of my cats had a hard tumor in her belly and the vet just took it out at the same time he was spaying her. Thankfully he didn't charge anything extra for that since he was already digging around in there lol. But even so, it was a slow growing tumor that she would be 100% fine once removed and I would have paid the $300 to have it removed had she not been having the spaying done already.

1/25/2012 12:42:30 PM

^ that's like a world tumor removal price record.

1/25/2012 12:52:37 PM

Is it usually more or less than that? $300 was what the guy quoted me at the time but then he just rolled it in with the spaying.

1/25/2012 2:20:56 PM

my cockatiel had it's toe bitten by another bird on 2 different occasions and each amputation cost over a grand with the vet care and bandage changes(under anesthesia)

i think i might spend up to 4 or 5k to save one of the bigger parrots. we could easily have 10-20 more years together

1/28/2012 11:54:47 AM

I'd probably spend 10k, if the prognosis looked good. (More if I made more at the time, but I'm poor right now.)


Probably 5k if the prognosis was fair, and then go down from there.

I'd feel guilty as hell if my dog died knowing that maybe she could have been saved.

But I'm one of those "my dogs are my best friends" types of people.

1/28/2012 12:43:32 PM

I spent $2,300 on my 5 month old GSD, when she got really sick. I kinda just kept spending money on the situation... it started out just being like $200 and then $500.... and it just kept building. If it had been $2,300 up front I probably wouldn't have made the same decision.

But anyway, I have a very happy, healthy 9month old GSD now!

1/28/2012 1:01:30 PM