- Location
- South Wales UK
Vet cost crisis
- Thread starter PSQ
- Start date
- Location
- Lincolnshire.
Unfortunately true.And health pet plans and insurances .
Bound to stick it on??
- Location
- East Yorkshire
How did the Ā£5k one work out?
Unlike "pets", most and i say most, keep farm animals to make money? and as many other factors over the last 30 odd years, vet costs increase, people will just pack it all in? why because its just not worth all the work worry and investment to pay others? these last few months of wet weather is another reason as well? At least with no livestock, or hardly any, you havnt the currant worry of wet weather, animals calving, feed feed feed? straw and the relentless work? for what?
suffolksmallholder
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- Location
- Suffolk
I know. Bonkers but thatās almost what folk expect to keep up with their chums.
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ollie989898
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I've extensive experience of this but a detailed discussion is outside the remit of this thread so I am forced to summarise thusly: it doesn't seem to improve their personality.
- Location
- South Wales UK
Before or after they leaked??
ollie989898
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I've actually handled are range of different medical prosthetic products (sample products)- before they were implanted of course. They are surprisingly tough and generally won't leak as such these days. I can't tell you how often complications occur but generally they are limited to them shifting around or out of place (i.e. due to trauma to the thorax as in a car accident etc) or the skin around the area doesn't retain the desired shape or tension so you get a sub optimal cosmetic result.
In common with things like hips and knee joints, a lot of thinking goes into these products and then tend to have a longer lifespan than you might thing or are better thought out with regards to how they might be replaced.
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- South Wales UK
As long as dont blow the crem up after.
Iād be surprised if these mega vet corps arenāt in very close communications with the pet insurance corps, I see it as a giant Ponzi scheme, vets put the prices so high that it makes insurance look like a no brainer, so everybody pays in (insurance wins), then Fido falls ill and the vets charge the Earth cos they know theyāll get it, vets win. Everyone else is a bit poorer.
The amount of money people are willing to spend on their pets to me is not a good indicator of the mental health/resilience/stability of the nation. As families break down, animals are more and more being anthropomorphically substituted to fill the voids.
The amount of money people are willing to spend on their pets to me is not a good indicator of the mental health/resilience/stability of the nation. As families break down, animals are more and more being anthropomorphically substituted to fill the voids.
- Location
- Derbyshire
Same here.
Local independent vet practice, much better to deal with.
They need our support.
- Location
- East Sussex
And how long is that going to be legal? Canāt see many taking the knackered old lab into Hyde park to give it 32g of Eleyās finest.
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Fortunately my vet practice goes easy Ā£ on large animal s , i dont like the fact they aint Independant tho . I have in the past offerd to set up young vets in there own practice help them get started , they never interested and like working for he large companyās. .
nails
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- Location
- East Dorset
Totally agree . 40-50 years ago pet insurance was unheard of. N.P. very clever Veterinary Surgeon but i question the ethics of some of what he does. Now he is advertising Pet Insurance.
Always been with an independent, 35 miles away, great service.
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- South Wales UK
VAN number paperwork and inspection another Rip off
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- East Yorkshire
Ours was independent til it got swallowed. When this happens, the partners (owners) get a significant payout, then work on salary basis.
It's happened to the more local vets to me, the latest newsletter from our independent implies they will resist it.