Update: Vet Visit Day

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Registered: 03-07-2005
Update: Vet Visit Day
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Thu, 05-19-2005 - 10:50am

I am pleased to report, that for the first time in 7 years, the vet appointment was NOT followed by repeated vomiting! Hurray! No floor scrubbing! It must have been a combination of the following:

Shorter car ride
Feliway in the carriers
One of the shots now being a nasal spray

Course, the whole thing cost me $250! And then the vet recommended senior blood work for both cats. When he told me it cost $90 per cat, I had to decline. I think it's better that I pay my mortgage this month!

Has anyone ever gotten pet insurance???

** Noelle

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Thu, 05-19-2005 - 10:58am

Congrats! Great news.

Mine get nasal drops for one of their inoculations. They mind that more than they do the shots. None of the cats I've ever had have reacted to shots.

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Thu, 05-19-2005 - 11:40am
Scooby got a nose spray for something.I thought of pet ins but never followed through


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Thu, 05-19-2005 - 1:08pm

That's great, I'm glad that you didn't have all the issue's with vomiting that you've had before!

As far as the cost for vet care goes, I feel your pain! Just since Feb. I've spent over $1000.00 just on diagnostic tests(endocopic exam for Gabe to firmly diagnose mild IBD, and echocardiogram for Zach and his heart murmur). This doesn't include the yearly exam(I don't vaccinate on a yearly basis, but do blood screening yearly on both) and this doesn't include the acupuncture costs.

At one point I did have pet insurance, but the standard policy wasn't really covering much at the time for me due to all the exclusions. Unless you upgrade the policy the yearly vaccines aren't included. The policies all have pre-existing conditions exclusions so at this point I don't know that it would really be worth it for me. It just seemed I was paying them monthly and still paying my vet on top of that so I figured I would be better off setting up my own savings account for the boys instead.

Take care, Lynn

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Registered: 04-07-2003
Thu, 05-19-2005 - 1:42pm

I've never gotten pet insurance. IMO, it's not worth really worth the $3000-4000+ cost in monthly payments over the course of an average housecat's lifetime, when chances are in your favour that nothing will ever happen. It would be worth it if your cat should, heaven forbid, come down with some horrible disease, but most of the plans I've looked at don't even cover chronic illnesses unless you pay the higher monthly fee, pushing your lifetime total cost to $4000-5000, or more. Your cat may never even get sick!

I'd rather keep putting all the extra money into a savings account - that way, it is there if you need it, and still there for you (or a future pet) if you don't.

Glad to hear everything went well at the vet's though! Bailey starts his first round of shots next week (fingers crossed!)




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Thu, 05-19-2005 - 1:56pm

Good point. I looked over a few pet insurance sites, and they monthly payment would go over what I paid for the vet visit within a few months. I was hoping they had something with a copay, like for people. Yesterday's appointment was very expensive. And I'm thinking of adding ANOTHER cat to this???

I'm just looking for ways to lower my costs. Last year, it didn't bother me. But last year, I was living in an appartment that cost half what my condo costs. There's an upside to home ownership, right? I'm still waiting to see it.

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Thu, 05-19-2005 - 2:31pm

I'm glad the girls did so well this time going to the vet.


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Thu, 05-19-2005 - 3:46pm

Great news!


I don't have pet insurance and don't have much knowledge about it but just from what little I do know it seems that I could put away the money I would pay in premiums and use that toward the bill rather than purchasing insurance.

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