Originally Posted by ASTPhi877  My girls have only been to the vet once in the past three months (since we moved), but according to their records (which i just checked), they went a total of 27 times to their vet in Louisiana. That's 13 times for Lila in a 7 1/2 month span, and 14 times for Lucy in about a 5 month span! And i'm not including the times I went by there to pick up heartguard or flea meds or any other medicines they might have needed! Or the few times they didn't charge anything, like when Lila had her stiches out... So I guess I was normally in there about once a week, sometimes more... I guess that seems like kind of a lot, lol, but it wasn't like there wasn't something wrong with them every time I went! I mean, Lila had her hypoglycemia, her mystery alopicia and skin scrape, her anal glands were always full (although after I figured out that the vet charged $25 to express them, while the groomers did it for $5, I stopped bringing her there for that, so that only accounted for one visit independent of anything else)... Then She had her spay, her valgus deformity and x-rays for that, and ringworm... And then Lucy had chronic ear infections, either yeast or bacterial or both... And she had ringworm, too, diagnosed on a separate visit from Lila's, and it would NOT go away! Oh and then her spay as well. And then checks and recheck's for everything... Not to mention their vaccines! I think I was spending between $200 and $400 on them, EVERY MONTH! WITHOUT taking food and preventatives into account!!! So the fact that we have only been ONCE in the past 3 months since moving to Pennsylvania is kind of a miracle! Although Lila's ears are looking kind of red and she has been scratching, and I have been fighting Lucy's "leather ear" over-the-counter for awhile now... And their yearly vaccines come up soon, don't they? So, jeez, if I only had to spend $250 in FIVE YEARS...! I honestly couldn't even imagine!!! Definitely party time!!!
But you know what? Even though i was waiting tables at the time, so I was by no means rich... My girls are worth every penny I ever had to spend. |