Cost of annual jabs

[Liz]

Vets bills are always a topic for discussion amongst my friends.
I was happy to pay 60€ today for the standard annual checkover and jabs including 3 year rabies renewal for our 35kilo doodle, and the vet didn't charge me for the smelly job of emptying his anal glands.
Plus 16€ for a worming tablet.
As the L'Oreal ads say, he's worth it.

[exile]

We get a small discount from our vet. The charge seems to vary a bit every time but is typically €45 -50.
Worming tablets and pipettes (for those that putting a tablet down the throat might be a life limiting event - I exaggerate but only slightly) are bought in bulk on the basis that if all are not done at the same time, there is a possibility of a recently treated cat picking up parasites from one not treated. Comes to about €160 for the lot to be done - currently 18.5 - yes I know 0.5? He arrived a couple of months ago. Hungry and so stealing food but with fur that was quite matted. Could not get too close to him due to his fear. After a few weeks someone had taken what looked like an electric hair clipper to the knots on one side. Then a week later the knots on the other side had been brushed out. We believed that someone else owned him. However more and more he comes to us for food, so now we are unsure.

[hughnique]

Just had our three cats jabbed, just the normal, no rabies, 214€ seems a bit dear now.

[Blaze]

Our BC had her annual jabs done in April, at one year old. According to the bill, they cost 55,67€. On top of that was a rappel for a new variante of Leptospirosis (we have a fair amount of field mice around ..) at 22,37€ and Kennel Cough (obligatory for our local kennels) at 14,83€. With a 10% remise, the bill came to 102,08€ which is a pretty dramatic increase.

We've been with this vets' practice since we came to the Saint Malo area nearly 10 years ago. It was "taken over" by Anicura, a "European family of animal hospitals and clinics focused on primary and specialised veterinary care for companion animals." about 18 months ago and there have been subtle changes : some of the vets we knew have gone elsewhere and new, young ones have arrived. We never know who we're going to see now. Some of the vets are non-chirurgical, perhaps to free up the surgeons from the more mundane tasks. It has become very impersonal - we liked seeing the same vet who would get to know the dogs. It's a great shame because we've always had excellent service up until recently but the place just isn't the same any more.

We had a lot of problems recently with our young BC, Fifi, after she absorbed an epillet (wild oat seed). It all got very complicated and it didn't give us confidence seeing a different person each time. The pre-op consultation was never with the surgeon (Fifi needed 2 separate ops) and it's not been possible to build up confidence with any of the new vets.

We discussed all this with the owner of our local kennels who we know pretty well now. He suggested another, smaller cabinet that the kennels work with. It' would appear to be cheaper than the one we've been using though our real issue is not the cost, but the feeling of being in an impersonal, money-making sausage machine.

Wikipedia reveals that since 2018, Anicura has been sold in whole or part to Mars Inc ...... So Anicura would appear to be American now, and probably targets successful, progressive vets' practices like ours. Dommage.

[Veem]

3 of our 4 cats were born here to a feral mother in 2012. We had them all sterilised but have never given them any jabs. We have always fed the family who live in our outbuildings, never seeming to stray far. The mother has long since disappeared, assumed dead. None of them has ever been ill or shown any symptoms of having fleas. The fourth cat arrived about 5 years ago, a friendly little thing, though the 'family' was not welcoming. We feed her separately, she barely wanders far from her adopted little barn, and is the only one to get fleas, for which I treat her as and when.

They all appear to be living a healthy life without injections and at 13 years old have never been ill.

[Headers]

Just had our cat jabbed. 58 euros for consultation and vaccin typhus, coryza, leucose. 25 euros for wormer and flea/tick tablet.
She is 15, feisty and seems fit.

[Polarengineer]

some go a long way for their pets such as this guy in the link with a dog with intersex (more like middlesex)
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/new ... ha-328049/